Freelance In Person Event Host

Freelance In Person Event Host - Toronto, Canada

Visit.org · Toronto, Canada · Contract · Posted 2026-09-01

Workplace: on_site

Department: Content

Description

Visit.org is looking for a passionate and ambitious Freelance In-Person Event Host in Toronto, Canada to join our Events team on a contract basis. The Event Host will facilitate interactive social impact experiences for our corporate partner on location for in-person event(s). This is an opportunity for an individual with stage experience who finds comfort in front of a crowd and wants to contribute their skills to positively impact local communities. The right candidate will be based in Toronto, Canada, and have corporate event experience, entrepreneurial spirit, extreme passion for our mission, and the energy and discipline to come in and be a builder in a start-up tech environment. 

What Motivates Us

There is room for everyone! We empower each other to innovate and create processes that use technology to generate meaningful, lasting change. We enjoy the challenge of finding solutions to problems that are not a way around it but through it.  We’re driven by the opportunity to help enterprises and their employees around the world to contribute to their communities. 

When You Join the Team

You’ll join a movement from the ground floor and a team of purpose-driven people with a strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and pride that we’re building this thing together. 

You’ll combine passion, purpose, and a paycheck—Visit.org team members get out of bed every day knowing their work is meaningful and has a tangible impact on individuals and communities around the world.

About Visit.org:

Visit.org helps companies discover & book thousands of carefully curated social impact team experiences, led by and benefiting local nonprofits. With its proprietary library of team-based experiences across 90+ countries, Visit.org provides HR, CSR, and Meetings & Events leaders highly scalable, culturally appropriate content for purpose-driven employee and client engagement. Some of our customers include Colgate, Paramount, Visa, HubSpot, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and more.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Host impactful, engaging, team-building, social impact events that support a great cause
• Welcome, engage, and inspire participants while supporting nonprofits in facilitating in-person events
• Present events in partnership with a nonprofit organization or lead the event in full
• Be skilled at storytelling and getting volunteers to really understand and feel the impact of their time
• Be able to deliver clear instructions to lead volunteers through impactful, engaging activities 
• Be available for 1-4 prep meetings prior to an event (depending on event complexities)

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Fluent in English 
• Based in Toronto, Canada
• Availability to work on a contract per event basis, including prep time
• Strong experience in event Hosting, Facilitation, and emceeing is required
• Comfortable interacting with both large groups of people and small groups or one-on-one, keeping the events flowing and the participants engaged
• Easy conversationalists with lots of energy, a charismatic personality, and a sense of fun
• Experience with group facilitation and managing group dynamics
• Storyteller, High energy, and a positive attitude
• Quick thinker—sometimes during events, things go wrong; you can problem-solve on the fly
• Extremely comfortable with and enjoys public speaking
• Excellent customer service and presentation skills

Benefits

This is an on location, in person , per event contract role in Toronto, Canada. This role is open only to those candidates already based in Toronto, Canada. No relocation packages are offered at this time.

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Apply at Visit.org

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