Parachute is hiring Communications Assistant for a period of eight weeks (Monday, May 25 to Friday, July 17) to do communications/marketing research and support public relation activities surrounding Parachute’s Canadian Injury Prevention Day and to complete a public safety messaging analysis. This job is supported by the Canada Summer Jobs program, so applicants must be age 30 and under, and be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or protected persons with a valid Social Insurance Number.
They will assist with the planning, marketing, event execution and post-event analysis of the 10th anniversary of a national injury prevention awareness day, being rebranded as Parachute’s Canadian Injury Prevention Day, set for Monday July 6, 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 aid the Parachute staff team in our advance work to secure event participation from partners and landmarks across Canada.
In addition, 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, focusing on road safety campaigns, run from spring 2024 to spring 2025 and add those to an existing database of campaign summaries, ensuring new entries do not duplicate ones already in the database. They 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, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and TikTok. This role reports to Parachute’s Vice President, Communications and Marketing, and will work closely with Parachute’s Lead, Digital Marketing. 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. Our operations are based in Toronto but our team works remotely; we are open to applicants across Canada who can work synchronous to the Eastern time zone. To find out more about parachute, visit parachute.ca.
To apply: submit a resumé and cover letter to info@parachute.ca. In the subject line, write “Communications assistant application.” Applications close Friday, May 1.