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About the Role
Nia Centre is seeking enthusiastic, reliable, and community-minded Event Hosts to join our Events team. As a member of our frontline operations team, the Event Host is primarily responsible for the onsite execution of approved events and rental activities. This includes ensuring event spaces are prepared and presentation-ready, delivering an exceptional guest and client experience, maintaining a safe and welcoming environment, monitoring activities throughout the event, and completing post-event close-out procedures. Event Hosts play a critical role in ensuring programs, community events, workshops, screenings, artist talks, rentals, and flagship events are delivered professionally and in accordance with Nia Centre's operational standards. This position is ideal for individuals interested in arts and culture, live events, community programming, customer service, event production, or nonprofit administration.
Responsibilities
- Support the setup, execution, and teardown of community programs, rentals, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, and special events
- Prepare event spaces according to approved event plans
- Provide exceptional front-of-house service by welcoming guests, artists, facilitators, vendors, and rental clients, while supporting registration, ticketing, audience wayfinding, and general event operations
- Monitor onsite event operations, independently resolve routine operational matters within established procedures, and escalate client, production, facility, safety, or other non-routine issues to the assigned Event Lead
- Complete post-event wrap-up, including venue reset, inventory, and restoring spaces for future use
- Assist with inventory management, equipment preparation, and the organization of event materials, signage, registration lists, and other operational resources
Requirements
- Candidates must be available to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends
- Must be able to lift and move event equipment (up to approximately 40 lbs)
- Must be over 21 years of age
Skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Strong communication skills
- Adaptable
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Causal
- On Call
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Salary/Compensations
- $21 per hour
Benefits
- Opportunity to gain hands-on experience producing multidisciplinary arts and cultural events
- Work alongside artists, curators, producers, and community leaders
- Contribute to programs celebrating Black creativity and culture
- Build valuable experience in arts administration, event production, and community engagement
About the Company
- Nia Centre for the Arts is a Toronto-based charitable organization working to advance Black artistic expression to enrich our collective identity.
- Located at 524 Oakwood Avenue, Nia Centre is Canada's first professional Black arts centre.
- Through exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist residencies, workshops, and community programs, Nia Centre creates opportunities for artists and communities to gather, create, learn, and celebrate Black artistic expression.
- Our Vision is to be Canada’s destination for Black Art and a Champion for Black Culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Nia Centre is strongly committed to equity and inclusion and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including Persons with Disabilities, Persons of Colour, Indigenous Peoples, and members of the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community.