Deadline to apply: This position will remain open until filled.
Location: Online
Contract Dates: July 7, 2025 - March 27, 2025
Salary Range: $18 - 22/hour
About the job
As the Communications Manager, you will work closely with the Single Thread team to plan, produce, and oversee the execution of all communications activities, including media materials, event promotion, website content, and social media platforms.
You will work with the XR Producers to manage the Single Thread brand across all platforms and you will be the primary contact person for all branding initiatives during the 2025/2026 season.
This position is funded by the Government of Canada’s Canada Summer Jobs program.
This position is funded by the Government of Canada’s Canada Summer Jobs program.
Responsibilities will include:
Develop and execute the social media marketing plan and calendar for PXR2026 with Producers.
Create and schedule content for Instagram, Facebook, and X (Twitter), including graphics, reels, stories, and posts.
Generate and distribute a Single Thread newsletter, aiming to grow the subscriber base.
Implement a content review system with Producers prior to posting.
Use Single Thread email for all communications and maintain project files on Google Drive.
Provide necessary equipment (excluding a Meta Quest 2 headset, which is supplied).
Attend weekly meetings and marketing check-ins to report progress.
Assist in testing event tools as required.
Contribute to the audience attendance strategy for PXR2026, focusing on three in-person venues.
Be available full-time during the conference to capture content for social media.
Attend and photograph for key events and daily check-ins, including the tech day and in-person presentations.
Ensure all documents, images, marketing plans, and content are finalized and submitted.
Uphold Single Thread’s Code of Conduct and act as a positive ambassador for PXR
Liaise with partners and perform other reasonable duties as required.
This is a position with flexible working hours and regular online communication and periodic in-person meetings.
Qualifications
Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the beginning of the employment period (as per Canada Summer Jobs funding requirements).
Have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada.
Experience in event marketing and communications is an asset.
Experience with virtual events, events in the arts or tech sector, and social media management is an asset.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write for different audiences.
Able to work well independently and meet deadlines.
Highly organized with attention to detail.Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Canva.
Skills in Photoshop are considered an asset.
Content creation skills are strongly valued.
Existing relationships with Canadian media is an asset.
Passion for and/or a creative practice rooted in immersive theatre and/or XR is a strong asset.
How to apply
Email a cover letter and resume to jobs@singlethread.ca with the subject “Communications Manager”. Early applications are encouraged.
Single Thread is committed to removing barriers to employment, and encourages all applicants who identify as IBPOC, LGBTQ2S+ and/or disabled to apply. Single Thread is committed to providing a barrier-free and equitable application process. If you require any accommodations let us know and we can work with you to ensure your needs are met.
We thank all applicants for your interest, but we will only be contacting those who meet the requirements for an interview.
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About Single Thread
Single Thread Theatre Company creates immersive theatre experiences in Canada and internationally that seek to advance the art of immersive storytelling through innovation and the presentation of new works.
For the past two decades, Single Thread has played a role in shaping enthusiasm and best practices for ‘site-specific’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in Canada and worked with hundreds of emerging and established theatre artists.
About Single Thread XR
Single Thread XR builds the capacity of artists to engage with XR, brings together artists and technologists to share work in performance and XR, and seeks to create new work that explores the intersections of immersive theatre and XR.
In 2020, Single Thread partnered with Electric Company Theatre with support from the Canada Council for the Arts to produce PXR 2020 - a four day symposium which brought together over two hundred artists, administrators, academics and technologists from diverse backgrounds across Canada in virtual reality using the AltspaceVR social platform to discuss how artists are using XR media and feature presentations from thought leaders in the area of XR, panel discussions, host networking events for artists and technologists. PXR has since become an annual event taking place on VRChat, a free-to-use social VR platform.