Special Events, Marketing & Admin Assistant

As the Marketing Assistant, you will be part of telling the story of our boutique retail district through digital media and also promoting the area through marketing, and special events. If you have way of communicating through digital content, enjoy organizing events enliven a community and love sharing the newest and coolest things about a local ‘hood – you will reap tremendous satisfaction from this role. This position will also expose you to the logistics of planning and implementing a special event within a retail street.

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Administrative tasks such as filing, phones, etc as required.

  • Develop engaging social media posts on behalf of the neighbourhood of South Granville;

  • Participate in generating ideas to help promote the district.

  • Ad-hoc event management support

  • Execute events with Placemaking & Events Coordinator which includes the moving and set up of books, games, signs, tents, event materials, and displays.

  • Preparing media packages and engaging with media

  • Surveying for metrics and presenting a report measuring impact.

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Experience in event planning, marketing, social media content/community management and communications or similar/relevant;

  • Mature, creative, reliable, energetic and highly motivated with a can do attitude;

  • Understands the nuances of ‘voice and tone’ is critical. Proven ability to communicate in an engaging and warm manner – verbal and written; Story telling skills will be a tremendous asset;

  • Basic familiarity with Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Office, Later, Slack.

  • Photography and photography editing – an asset;

  • Effective planner, extremely organized, and maintains attention to detail;

  • The ability to work independently without supervision

  • This position requires moderate physical demands, including lifting over 10 lbs and standing/walking for extended periods during events.

The work will be performed at the SGBIA Office, remotely, and in the neighbourhood. Working hours will be regular office hours (mostly 9:30 am – 4:00 pm) with some variance for weekends and evenings depending on the special events. There will be some self-directed time and hours to execute campaigns. 

This position is made possible through the Canadian Summer Jobs Grant and is available immediately for 9 weeks for 30 hours per week, starting in early June. The following criteria must be met:

  • Between the age of 15 and 30 years old;

  • Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Refugee; (Sorry, International students are not eligible)

  • Legally entitled to work. 

Remuneration is $22/hour.

Qualified candidates should email a PDF resume with a cover letter and links to writing samples and digital content work such as blogs/social media to careers@southgranville.org. The listing will remain up until a candidate is hired. No phone calls, please!

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South Granville has served the City of Vancouver as a high street shopping district for over 100 years.  Not only are we a shopping street, we are a neighbourhood with a rich history and strong identity.  We boast the largest concentration of fine boutiques in the City and our community is home to the beloved Stanley Theatre providing award winning live theatre 200 days a year.  The South Granville BIA is geographically defined by the boundaries of Granville Street from 5th Avenue to 16th Avenue (N/S) and to the laneways on the east and west side of Granville. We also represent businesses on the south side of Broadway between Granville and Fir.


We represent
591 member businesses and property owners
$2.2 Billion in assessed commercial property value
$20 million in annual commercial property taxes
$728,000 BIA annual budget

Our Mandate
To help make South Granville the destination of choice for Metro Vancouver residents for shopping, dining, entertainment, and other services; and to act as a catalyst for vibrancy and prosperity in the area through advocacy, marketing, events, improvements and co-operative initiatives.

Check us out on Instagram @southgranville.