Red Eye Media is a leading boutique arts and culture media relations firm operating for over 20 years in Toronto and working predominantly with leading theatre producers and performing arts organizations as well as on some major scripted television properties.

We are looking for an emerging communications and media relations coordinator who is particularly interested in working in communications and media relations in the arts, who ideally is passionate about Toronto’s growing performing arts sector and the opportunity to support it, and who is a detail-oriented self-starter who loves rocking a spreadsheet and juggling multiple projects simultaneously.

This is a 3-month 15-20 hours per week contract position (remote, paid hourly, hours to generally be worked in the morning with some flexibility) with the potential to be extended.

The position will support Red Eye’s founder in executing media relations campaigns for a busy roster of stage productions and other arts events. The role will involve traditional communications and media relations coordination activities including tracking and sharing media breaks with clients, completing campaign reports, maintaining and updating the media database,



updating projects on our web site, tracking and booking media RSVPs for our shows, assisting in writing media releases, intaking and formatting media assets from our clients and distributing them to media as needed, helping schedule media opportunities, maintaining media schedules, providing in office support, researching and building an influencer database, greeting and checking in media at show openings, and more.

Key responsibilities

- Morning tracking and distribution of media breaks to clients
- Completing earned media campaign reports
- Coordinating and distributing media assets for projects
- Coordinating opening night event invitations and tracking RSVPs
- Assisting in scheduling and maintaining media schedules for projects
- Assisting with writing media releases and other materials
- Researching relevant grassroots promotional partners and influencers and coordination of promotions
- Assistance with maintenance of media database
- Setting up releases and invites in Mailchimp
- Updating web site
- Social media content creation

📌 Publicity Assistant (Toronto)
🏢 Red Eye Media
📍 Toronto