Community Lead

Please send a short note, resume, and any relevant examples to [email protected]

Location: Toronto preferred / hybrid, with key in-person moments (however, this is a remote first role)

Commitment: Contract/Part Time (15-20 hrs a week)

Start Date: Fall 2026

Reports to: Executive Director, Toronto Tech Week

Toronto Tech Week is a community-led, decentralized event series showcasing Toronto as a global hub of technology, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Each year, founders, investors, operators, builders, executives, and community leaders gather across the city for hundreds of independently hosted events designed to build meaningful connections, spark new ideas, and amplify Canadian innovation on the world stage.

In 2026, Toronto Tech Week brought together 32,400+ attendees, 603+ events, 732+ event hosts, and 840+ speakers.

As we build toward 2027, we are focused on strengthening the experience for the organizations and community leaders who bring the week to life—and making it easier for more of Toronto’s tech ecosystem to participate.

We’re looking for a Community Lead to engage, support, and rally the organizations hosting events during Toronto Tech Week 2027.

You will be a primary point of contact for prospective and confirmed event hosts, helping them understand TTW’s decentralized model, navigate the participation process, and access the resources they need to organize successful events.

You will also lead community communications, facilitate host information sessions, support the TTW Ambassador program, and help ensure that hosts and community members receive clear, timely, and helpful information throughout the year.

A central measure of success will be helping Toronto Tech Week meet or exceed the 603+ events hosted in 2026, while continuing to expand the diversity, quality, and reach of participating organizations.

• Build & manage an engagement plan for past, prospective, and confirmed event hosts.
• Serve as a primary contact for organizations interested in hosting an event during TTW.
• Help hosts understand the TTW model, participation process, key dates, expectations, and available resources.
• Support confirmed hosts from onboarding through event delivery with clear communications, reminders, and follow-ups.
• Create practical host resources, including guides, FAQs, templates, timelines, and promotional materials.
• Develop and facilitate live Q&As, webinars, and information sessions that help organizations understand TTW and how to get involved.
• Oversee our admin inbox and ensure inquiries receive timely, helpful, and professional responses.
• Draft and send Toronto Tech Week’s monthly newsletter, along with targeted updates for hosts, ambassadors, and community partners.
• Help recruit, onboard, support, and coordinate Toronto Tech Week ambassadors.
• Create the tools and materials ambassadors need to promote TTW effectively within their communities.
• Lead the development and distribution of physical Event Host Kits in collaboration with the Operations Lead and relevant vendors.
• Identify opportunities to engage new organizations, industries, communities, and neighbourhoods across Toronto’s technology ecosystem.
• Track host interest, participation, and community engagement to help TTW meet its event goals.
• Support host gatherings, official TTW events, community activations, and other in-person moments as needed.

• 2-4 years of experience in community engagement, events, partnerships, communications, program coordination, or a related role.
• A strong relationship-builder who enjoys connecting with people and helping them participate.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence facilitating presentations, webinars, live Q&As, and community conversations.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, with the ability to manage many relationships and moving pieces.
• Experience creating presentations, newsletters, guides, toolkits, or other community-facing materials.
• Comfortable working independently, taking initiative, and identifying what needs to happen next.
• Able to thrive within a small, fast-moving team where priorities may evolve throughout the year.
• Familiarity with Toronto’s technology, startup, venture, academic, corporate, or innovation ecosystem.
• An understanding of—or genuine interest in—Toronto Tech Week’s decentralized, community-led model.
• Availability for key in-person moments, including occasional evening events and Toronto Tech Week itself.

• Existing relationships across Toronto’s technology and innovation ecosystem.
• Previous involvement with Toronto Tech Week as a host, attendee, ambassador, partner, or volunteer.
• Experience supporting community-led festivals, conferences, or distributed event programs.
• Familiarity with tools such as Beehiiv, Luma, Airtable, Notion, Canva, Google Workspace, or CRM platforms.

• Toronto Tech Week meets or exceeds the 603+ events hosted in 2026.
• Event hosts understand how TTW works and feel informed, supported, and confident throughout their participation.
• Host communications, newsletters, resources, and information sessions are delivered consistently and effectively.
• Ambassadors are engaged and actively helping promote Toronto Tech Week.
• The broader ecosystem feels invited, excited, and empowered to participate in TTW 2027.

• Help rally the community behind Canada’s largest grassroots tech gathering.
• Build relationships across Toronto’s startup, technology, venture, academic, and corporate ecosystems.
• Play a direct role in helping hundreds of organizations bring Toronto Tech Week to life.
• Join a small, ambitious, collaborative, and fast-moving team.

Send a short note, resume, and any relevant examples of community, event, presentation, newsletter, ambassador, or communications work to [email protected].