Interview Scheduler - Family Shed aims at ending loneliness and social isolation. You help get the word out by scheduling interviews for founder, Rev. Conrad Hall. You help refine the message to suit the outlet. We provide tools. You provide gumption.

Family Shed is a safe space for soldiers and veterans to come together with the community. Where each person can share their knowledge and skills as we build healthy relationships. Family Shed is motivated by personal responsibility and supports community accountability.

It’s a great message, yes? This is why we need your help scheduling interviews for Family Shed founder, Rev. Conrad Hall. We need to get the word out so people who want to support veterans, cure the loneliness epidemic, and build healthy relationships can discover how Family Shed helps them build the successes they desire.

Role Overview

We are looking for a dedicated, dependable, and self-motivated Interview Scheduler to drive Family Shed’s effort to build an audience in Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe. Your efforts will drive the growth and sustainability of Family Shed.

• *This is an excellent opportunity for the person seeking to enhance their experience in media relations, cause marketing, and messaging.

What You Are Doing

• Use existing media kit resources to craft the Family Shed message to suit media interests and requirements
• Refine the Family Shed message to make it attractive to specific and varied audiences
• Contact media outlets and content creators to schedule interviews
• Consistently review and modify interview question lists to connect with current events and developing research

Your Qualifications and Our Requirements

• Previous experience scheduling interviews, communicating with media, and building interview question lists is spectacular. What you absolutely must have is understanding of the differences between a podcast, radio, television, and print interview.
• Fluency in English written and oral communications. You are the relay point for communication between media and Rev. Hall. You must be able to receive and communicate messages accurately and faithfully.
• Strong organisational skills that enable you to manage your time as well as consider, and manage, Rev. Hall’s interview calendar.
• High level of discretion, reliability, and trustworthiness because you are going to know things before the public. It’s okay to learn how to tease the public with information, but you have to start with knowing how to keep something secret.
• Be comfortable working independently while maintaining communication with Rev. Hall, and occasionally attending in-person meetings with the Family Shed team.
• Experience using MS Office programs and Google Workspace (especially Drive and Gmail). We will teach you how to use Guest Match, Copper CRM, and other tools we use.
• Being fluent in French or Spanish is really helpful and far from required.

Commitment

• Look to invest 6-10 hours per week
• The schedule is flexible based on when media personnel and content creators are available

What You’ll Gain

• The value of building a network of media contacts
• Experience working in a supportive, encouraging, and demanding environment
• Direct mentorship from an experienced founder, author, and speaker

Opportunity to learn how a message is kept accurate while crafting it to fit multiple audiences