Work Opportunity at Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Conference—September 11-13, 2014

The Canadian Psychiatric Association is seeking some media assistance during its Annual Conference to be held at Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, September 11-13.  The work is principally to provide onsite assistance to the CPA’s Senior Communications Specialist in responding to media requests during the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the conference (September 11-13).

Duties include:

Manning the CPA media room.

Handing out packages to preregistered media.

Registering Media for the conference.

Directing media to sessions and filling interview requests from journalists.

The candidate for this job must feel comfortable working with minimal supervision.  Communications staff will be available via cellphone if needed but will not be in the media room on a consistent basis.

Bilingualism preferred but not essential.

Hours:

A one-hour meeting to go over duties/tools the afternoon of Tuesday, September 9.

Manning the Media room for the following times:

Thursday, September 11, 8:30-16:00

Friday, September 12, 07:30-16:00

Saturday, September 13, 08:30-14:00

Rate of pay:  $20/hour

If you are interested, please contact me at the coordinates below on or before midnight, Monday, September 1 and forward your CV and/or information on your job experience related to the above tasks.

Sincerely,

Hélène Côté
Senior Communications Specialist 
Canadian Psychiatric Association
Email: hcote@cpa-apc.org