Parachute has support from the Canada Summer Works program to hire a Communications Assistant to work for eight weeks, from Monday May 26 to Friday July 18, to support public relation activities surrounding Parachute’s National Injury Prevention Day and to complete a public safety messaging analysis. The contract is for 35 hours weekly at $18.50 hourly.
They will assist with the planning, marketing, event execution and post-event analysis of Parachute’s National Injury Prevention Day (NIPD), set for Monday July 7, 2025. This campaign to raise awareness about the impact of preventable injuries on Canadian lives runs nationally through social media and network outreach. The assistant will be responsible for creating a detailed analysis of participation in this digital-first event and campaign, post-event.
As well, the assistant will update an analysis of public safety messaging nationally and globally to assist Parachute with future safety messaging campaigns. The assistant will seek out and review safety campaigns run from spring 2023 to spring 2025 and add those to an existing database of campaign summaries, ensuring new entries do not duplicate ones already in the database.
Areas of focus are:
- Road safety, including child passenger safety.
- Home safety campaigns, including poisoning.
- Child fall prevention.
- Sports and recreation safety including proper equipment, helmets.
- Seniors’ health / fall prevention.
The assistant will seek out campaigns and gather assets, whether links to videos, websites, or PDFs, in the first phase, and then do follow-ups with the organizations that created these campaigns to get more information about how/why they were created and any results they may want to share.
The ideal candidate has completed university or college degree studies in communications and/or public relations and is capable of conducting research independently and creating professional-level reports. They should be adept at using Excel and Powerpoint, and social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and TikTok. This role reports to Parachute’s Vice President, Communications and Marketing, and will work closely with Parachute’s Specialist, Digital and Social Media. Fluency in French is an asset.
About Parachute: Parachute is Canada’s national charity dedicated to injury prevention, focusing on preventing unintentional injuries that occur at home, in sports and recreation, and on our roads. This is a remote-work role although the assistant will be invited to attend all-staff meetings held in Toronto. To find out more about parachute, visit parachute.ca.
To apply: Please send cover letter and resumé to careers@parachute.ca . Applications close on Friday, May 2.