Education Program Coordinator

Deadline to apply: June 20, 2025 at 5:00pm EST

Location: Online

Contract Dates: July 7, 2025 - August 29, 2025

Hourly wage: $20.25

                                                        

About the job

As the Education Program Coordinator, you will work closely with the Education team to strengthen and grow impactful opportunities for primary school students to connect more deeply to their curriculum content through immersive experiences.  

This position is funded by the Government of Canada’s Canada Summer Jobs program.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting upcoming immersive school projects, including research, creative concept development and the identification of curriculum connections.

  • Researching possible funding streams and supporting grant writing for upcoming projects.

  • Contributing to heightening the awareness of Single Thread Education, including developing marketing materials, contributing to the website, preparing for workshops and presentations, and creating social media posts.

  • Creating educational materials for school and community partners, including for the Performance and XR Conference.

  • Researching best practices and innovations in immersive theatre and education, and making recommendations.

  • Facilitating community connections and partnerships for upcoming projects.

This a full-time 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 and interest in theatre, education and administration.

  • Experience, or interest, in developing theatre-based educational programming for young people. 

  • Experience with preparing and writing grant applications.

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

  • Self-motivated with strong initiative, with demonstrated ability to plan, organize and carry out assigned duties and responsibilities with minimal direct supervision.

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, as well as Google platforms (Gmail, Google Drive).

  • Passion for and/or an artistic practise rooted in immersive theatre is an asset.

  • Knowledge of the Ontario education curriculum and arts-based learning in schools is an asset.

  • Experience with Photoshop is an asset.

How to apply

Email a cover letter and resume to jobs@singlethread.ca with the subject “Education Coordinator” before 5pm EST on June 8, 2025.

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.

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.