Production Assistant

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Indian Summer Festival
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
LA
Grants & Community Initiatives Manager
(1)
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Preferred learners
  • Canada
  • Academic experience
Categories
Communications Operations Project management Media
Skills
transcribing communication organizational skills quick learning production management english language multilingualism research
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

Position available: 1

We are seeking an assistant to work closely with our Production Manager, Mimi Abrahams. Mimi is an established and sought-after professional who works as a venue manager, technical director, and producer on many large-scale events throughout the city of Vancouver. This candidate will work closely with Mimi to support the 11th Annual Indian Summer Festival, which is a virtual festival in summer of 2021.

Tasks may include:

  • Updating calendars and assisting with scheduling
  • Document and spreadsheet proofreading
  • Document formatting
  • Notes transcription to google drive
  • Digital research, production related
  • Digital assets organization and progress checklist
  • May be asked to ghost write reply or follow up email

Ideal candidate:

  • A go-getter to do a hybrid of virtual workplace.
  • A fast thinker with good organization skills.
  • Focused and willing to ask questions.
  • Quick learner for office and communication apps.
  • The office operates in English. Multilingual is an asset.
  • Must enjoy diversity, arts, and culture.
How will you support learners in completing the project?

Onboarding

Weekly check in

About the company

Indian Summer produces some of Vancouver’s most distinctive arts + culture events. We present acclaimed international and local artists, connecting Vancouver to itself and the world. We offer our audiences multi-arts experiences of exceptional caliber, curating through a South Asian lens and centering the exciting work of culturally diverse artists. Programming across literature, music, visual arts and the performing arts, we connect rich and complex pasts with the emerging future.

We strive to be loving and fierce, with an audacious curatorial punch that dismantles walls, plays with ideas and provokes necessary dialogue and debate. In doing this, we believe in the transformative power of the arts, and their ability to offer society’s most renewable resource: hope.