ASHKENAZ FOUNDATION
Volunteer & Vendor Coordinator (VVC)
Position Type: Contract position running June to September 6 (including Labour Day Weekend). The position can potentially be flexible and P/T for June, but will ramp up in July/August. There will also be some minor remote P/T wrap-up work in early September.
We are looking for a dynamic coordinator to join our team for summer 2026. The 2026 Ashkenaz Summer Series & Festival will include a 4-part double-bill concert series in Earl Bales Park, featuring a combination of pop, rock, and Jewish roots music bands every second Monday night from July 13 – August 24. The Ashkenaz Festival will feature over 200 artists in 75+ performances and 40,000+ attendees from August 30 – September 6 at various venues around the city from downtown to uptown. The Foundation showcases the work of leading contemporary artists from Canada and around the world working in all artistic disciplines. The Foundation’s mandate and programming encompasses a vast range of pan-Jewish music and art, including Sephardic, Ladino, Falasha and Mizrachi traditions, and also strongly emphasizes fusion and cross-cultural exchange with artists from outside Jewish cultural traditions. The Volunteer & Vendor Coordinator will work closely with all Ashkenaz staff members on volunteer & vendor recruitment and logistics.
Responsibilities:
Duties will include: organizing all volunteer-related details for the 2026 Ashkenaz Festival and Earl Bales Park concert series, including, but not limited to, all communication with existing volunteers & vendors, recruitment and training of new volunteers & vendors, creating and filling schedules of volunteer needs, coordinating all volunteers & vendors on-site during the series and festival, recruiting and coordinating a vendor for third-party merchandise sales, coordinating street-teams for materials distribution and grassroots marketing endeavours, arranging volunteer-run airport pick-ups, updating and maintaining the Ashkenaz volunteer database, and upon completion of the festival providing a report of activities and recommendations, planning and implementing a volunteer thank you gesture, and other related duties as applicable.
Qualifications:
- Strong communication skills (both oral & written)
- Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
- Adaptability and ability to think on your feet
- Strong interpersonal skills, especially if dealing with challenging people or situations
- Detail-orientated
- Fluency with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel), e-mail, Internet
- Must work well both independently and as part of a team
- Must be mature-minded, flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, non-corporate environment
- Knowledge and interest in music, the arts and/or Jewish culture is an asset
Job contact information:
Please send cv and cover letter by April 6 to Managing Director Samantha Parnes
(w) www.ashkenaz.ca