Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator

CKUA Radio Foundation


Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator
CKUA Radio Foundation • Edmonton, AB, Canada • via Indeed
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Job description
JOB POSTING: Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator

About CKUA
CKUA is recognized as Canada’s first public broadcaster, and it continues to inspire and guide a world-wide community of loyal arts and culture enthusiasts along an inspirational journey of musical discovery every day. Through more than 45 expertly curated multi-genre musical programs and other enriching arts and cultural content on-air and online. CKUA serves 380 communities across Alberta with FM Radio and listeners around the world, with live-streaming and enriching digital content through CKUA.com, the CKUA App and social platforms. We are an inclusive, creative hardworking group on a musical mission to enrich lives and support the arts.

Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator

Location: Edmonton, AB | in-person-based | Casual, union position

Come be part of CKUA’s event team this summer – and beyond! We’re looking for a community-minded, energetic Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator to help bring CKUA to life at local festivals and events across Alberta. From live music to donor experiences, you’ll help create meaningful moments that connect people through arts and culture.

This casual role also includes year-round opportunities to support CKUA’s building rentals and volunteer coordination for a variety of events. Perfect for someone who thrives in a hands-on, people-focused environment.

About the Role

The Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator contributes to CKUA’s success by helping plan, deliver, and support a variety of events and volunteer activities. Working closely with the Event & Volunteer Manager, as well as colleagues across CKUA, this role ensures that events and volunteer engagements are delivered seamlessly and in alignment with CKUA’s brand, values, and goals.

This is a dynamic, hands-on position that offers the opportunity to be part of some of Alberta’s most vibrant cultural moments—especially during the summer, when CKUA participates in a variety of music festivals and community events. From behind-the-scenes coordination to being on-site and in the action, you’ll help bring CKUA’s presence to life in creative and meaningful ways. Your direct contribution helps ensure the consistency and quality required to promote the CKUA brand and fulfill our mission as a listener-supported cultural broadcaster.

Event Coordination
In this role, you’ll help plan, organize, and coordinate events that support CKUA’s fundraising, marketing, and donor stewardship goals. These include everything from small-scale gatherings to larger festivals and community events where CKUA is present. You’ll attend and support the delivery of events, ensuring smooth setup and teardown, managing logistics, troubleshooting issues, and creating a welcoming environment for guests, volunteers, and staff.

You’ll also provide on-the-ground guidance and support to volunteers and staff involved in event delivery, helping everyone contribute to a seamless, professional experience. In addition, you’ll maintain accurate records of event activities and outcomes, and assist with CKUA’s rentals program by coordinating building tours, supporting event setup, and ensuring the space is prepared for public or private use. You’ll also support additional tasks as needed to contribute to the success of the program and the team.

Volunteer Coordination
You’ll also help sustain a vibrant, inclusive volunteer program by supporting the recruitment, screening, and placement of volunteers. In this role, you’ll build strong relationships with volunteers and provide on-site support at both CKUA-hosted and external community events. You’ll ensure volunteer records are accurate and up-to-date using the Better Impact database, and support reporting requirements in a timely and organized manner.

As an advocate for volunteerism, you’ll contribute to a welcoming and meaningful experience for all volunteers and help showcase the value of community participation at CKUA. You’ll work closely with staff to ensure volunteers feel informed, appreciated, and aligned with CKUA’s mission.

What You Bring

You have experience coordinating events or volunteer programs, ideally in an arts, culture, nonprofit, or community-based setting. You’re highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage timelines, logistics, and stakeholder needs simultaneously.

You bring valuable experience in communication and relationship building; skills that reflect your understanding of how messaging, tone, and inclusion shape people’s experiences. You approach your work with a high degree of respect, empathy, and professionalism, and you’re attentive to how communications impact diverse audiences. You see yourself in CKUA’s values: Community, Diversity, Inclusion, Creativity, Curiosity, and Authenticity.

You’re comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively across teams, and your passion for community connection is evident in how you engage with others. Familiarity with Better Impact or similar systems is helpful, but training will be provided if needed.

Additional Details

This is a casual, unionized position based in Edmonton, with terms and conditions governed by the Collective Agreement between CKUA and IBEW Local 2228 and the pay range for this position starts at $25.38 per hour. The role is in-person based, and flexibility is required for evening and weekend work, particularly during CKUA events and Alberta’s summer festival season.

Some travel is required, especially during the summer months for off-site events and festivals. A valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation are assets.

If duties include supporting events with bar service, a ProServe certification is an asset, but if you do not already have this certification, CKUA can assist in obtaining it.

How to apply:

If you’re ready to support CKUA’s mission and help create community connections through music, arts, and culture, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply to this position via the ADP link by June 2, 2025.

There is some urgency to fill this role to achieve our goals. We will be interviewing qualified candidates as they present themselves.

CKUA welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. We are particularly interested in and encourage applications from equity-seeking communities, including women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all ****** orientations and gender identities/expressions.

CKUA is a donor-supported arts organization that inspires and connects through the power of music, arts, culture and story. With a focus on musical discovery, we showcase the best creative work from Alberta and beyond and deliver it on-air, online and in-person.

In the spirit of our journey to promote reconciliation, we honour the truth of the shared history and acknowledge that we operate on Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 territories.

Treaty 6 territory is the traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakoda, Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway, Saulteaux/Anishinaabe and many others whose histories, languages and cultures continue to influence our vibrant community of Amiskwaciwaskahigan, also known as Edmonton. Treaty 7 is the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Kainai and Pikani, the Tsuut’ina and the Stoney Nakoda nations including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley nations. We also recognize the Métis people and the Inuit who make their home in Mohkins’tsis, also known as Calgary.