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Are you a creative, innovative, and organized person who loves planning, designing, and developing?

Dreamcatcher™ is looking for volunteers to join our Tourism Program! From May-September, we host fun events for our community such as guided animal tours, a magical forest, and animal yoga! However, this winter we are focusing on re-developing our program so that it is planned and ready to launch for the spring and make our vision come to life!

Roles:
- Administrative/Planners
- Sales/Marketing/Analytics/Logistics
- Leadership Roles
- Magical Forest Development

Duties may include:
- Help with planning, organizing, and executing events
- Brainstorm innovative ideas & activities for events/experiences
- Make signs for events & activities
- Contact other organizations, vendors, etc. to develop partnerships
- Create event itineraries and templates
- Order and/or pick up items for events
- Help set up for events (during our tourism season)
- Collaborate with other tourism staff and volunteers
- Design experiences and packages for tourists
- Manage administrative duties such as Eventbrite and listings for Travel Alberta and Explore Edmonton
- Marketing: creating content, writing newsletters or blogs, etc. that relate to our events, or designing a marketing strategy (maximizing SEO's, measurements of success, etc.)
- Grant writing support: researching/applying
- Managing projects
- Website Development: Updating/designing our tourism webpage/landing page
- Costing/Pricing/Sales: Help with cost planning and analysis (e.g., projecting/forecasting, budgeting, etc.)
- Researching/Data Collection: doing market research, creating surveys, etc.
- Magical Forest Development: design activities or themes, set up forest, create DIY projects, etc.

Volunteers will not have to do ALL of the listed duties above, these are just some things that you could be helping with. We will work with your strengths, interests, experience level, and capacity to help.

Note: this position is hybrid, with some on-site work required (depending on role, task) but can be done mostly remotely (you may be required to have access to a laptop/computer, WIFI/Internet, etc.)

Dreamcatcher™ Nature-Assisted Therapy is looking for positive, enthusiastic, and fun individuals to harness their social skills and engage the public in new and exciting activities.

Our Tourism program usually runs between May & September where we offer activities such as:
- Guided Interactive Animal Tours
- Magical Forest Trails
- Animal or Nature Yoga

Shifts may be between 4-8 hours long depending on the event. Majority of events will be hosted on Saturdays and Sundays but may occasionally be hosted on a Friday.

Age Requirements:
- Must be 14+ to volunteer without parent/guardian
- Please inquire if you wish to volunteer with children under 12

Roles & Duties:
- Tour Guides: provide safe interactive animal tours for our guests (opportunities for topic specific tours may be available e.g., plant IDing, agriculture, etc. based on specialty area of volunteer)
- Animal Handlers: ensure safe animal interactions during animal yoga, tours, or at animal stations
- Market booth: Manage the market booth, selling snacks/beverages, swag, providing information, checking guests in
- Activity Stations: Manage whatever station we have (e.g., craft station)
- Other duties may include: helping with setting up/tearing down event, answering guest questions/concerns, ensuring guests are following rules, leading guests into animal pens

If you are interested in helping with tourism development, planning, or magical forest development, please email us or check our other posting!