TD Public Programmes and Learning Fellow
Top Benefits
About the role
Application Deadline: 24 August 2025
Department: Programming
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada
Compensation: $50,700 / year
Description Position Summary Posted on: July 25, 2025
Closing on: August 24, 2025
Location: Toronto, ON
Employment Type: Full-time, 1 year contract
Remote/Onsite: Hybrid
Level: Fellow
Report to: Curator of Public Programmes
Start date: October 6, 2025
Salary: $50,700 per annum
Benefits: Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
Reporting to the Curator of Public Programmes, the TD Public Programmes and Learning Fellow will collaborate with the team to research, coordinate, and deliver diverse public and learning programmes online and in-person.
The Fellow will organize and lead learning workshops, TD Community Sunday programming, group sessions, and guided tours, aligning with the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 exhibition seasons. This role also includes leading MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, including recruiting and onboarding the council’s 2025 incumbents.
The Fellowship offers extensive opportunities to network with educators, artists, and cultural leaders, enhancing professional and creative growth. It also provides a chance to develop accessible and inclusive learning content related to and beyond MOCA’s exhibitions.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, by developing programme plans, conducting outreach and research, and delivering weekly sessions.
- Organizing, producing, facilitating, and delivering select learning workshops and guided tours, including but not limited to those for MOCA Family Weekends.
- Organizing, producing, facilitating, and delivering select public programmes.
- Researching, producing, and editing digital content, including PDFs, videos, and other materials as needed for MOCA’s online platforms; photography skills are an asset.
- Performing administrative tasks including, but not limited to, contract drafting, managing rental logistics, handling communications, and overseeing budgeting.
- Assisting with live events.
- Leading two semester-long sessions of MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, and overseeing the delivery of two youth-led programmes.
- Producing clear, organized, and engaging learning workshops and public programmes tailored to MOCA’s target audiences.
- Creating content within the frameworks, guidelines, and structures set by MOCA Toronto for various in-person and online platforms, including photography, writing, and editing.
- Establishing and nurturing both new and pre-existing community and programming relationships.
- Collaborating with the Learning Coordinator and Art Educators on educational programme development and delivery, including school tours, workshops, and programmes.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Must-haves
- A minimum of three years of professional experience in the development, execution, and/or research of arts, learning, or public programmes, with a strong background in community engagement and inclusion.
- Knowledge of contemporary art practices.
- Demonstrated experience working with the public, including children (ages 4-14), youth (ages 14-18), and families.
- Proven track record in developing and executing community-based partnerships and collaborations.
- Extensive experience in developing, supporting, or executing a diverse range of public programmes and learning opportunities, such as performances, panel discussions/talks, community-based activations, site-specific events, and group visitations.
- Ability to move tables, chairs, and other equipment weighing up to 30 lbs.
- Ability for evening and weekend work.
Nice-to-haves
- Proficiency in Google Suite and related programmes, including word processing and spreadsheets.
- Familiarity with online project management software, such as Asana, is beneficial.
Benefits Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
About Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada
MOCA Toronto is an inclusive cultural hub at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA supports and promotes forward-thinking artistic experimentation and provides a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration and creativity.
Working across all contemporary art forms, MOCA's exhibitions, installations and programmes empower local artists and engage the Toronto art scene while contributing to international dialogue and scholarship. MOCA presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize artistic production post-2000, primarily through commissioning new work. The museum values artistic freedom and production, its relationships with artists and broad accessibility, with programming that includes in-person and online learning opportunities, workshops, tours, teacher resources, publications and mentoring programmes for the local arts community.
MOCA actively cultivates partnerships with other arts and culture organizations, government agencies, educational institutions and neighbourhood community-based projects to further engage residents and visitors to our culturally rich and hyper-diverse city.
MOCA is a nonprofit charitable organization.
Our Vision: The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary and internationally renowned through our work with artists. A place for everyone to explore that provokes ideas and discussion and challenges the current cultural moment.
Our Mission: Artists, relationships and experimentation are at the centre of everything we do. MOCA Toronto presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning new work. We foster active dialogue, participation and celebrate complexity; in order to serve as an inclusive cultural hub in this hyper-diverse city and world.
TD Public Programmes and Learning Fellow
Top Benefits
About the role
Application Deadline: 24 August 2025
Department: Programming
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada
Compensation: $50,700 / year
Description Position Summary Posted on: July 25, 2025
Closing on: August 24, 2025
Location: Toronto, ON
Employment Type: Full-time, 1 year contract
Remote/Onsite: Hybrid
Level: Fellow
Report to: Curator of Public Programmes
Start date: October 6, 2025
Salary: $50,700 per annum
Benefits: Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
Reporting to the Curator of Public Programmes, the TD Public Programmes and Learning Fellow will collaborate with the team to research, coordinate, and deliver diverse public and learning programmes online and in-person.
The Fellow will organize and lead learning workshops, TD Community Sunday programming, group sessions, and guided tours, aligning with the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 exhibition seasons. This role also includes leading MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, including recruiting and onboarding the council’s 2025 incumbents.
The Fellowship offers extensive opportunities to network with educators, artists, and cultural leaders, enhancing professional and creative growth. It also provides a chance to develop accessible and inclusive learning content related to and beyond MOCA’s exhibitions.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, by developing programme plans, conducting outreach and research, and delivering weekly sessions.
- Organizing, producing, facilitating, and delivering select learning workshops and guided tours, including but not limited to those for MOCA Family Weekends.
- Organizing, producing, facilitating, and delivering select public programmes.
- Researching, producing, and editing digital content, including PDFs, videos, and other materials as needed for MOCA’s online platforms; photography skills are an asset.
- Performing administrative tasks including, but not limited to, contract drafting, managing rental logistics, handling communications, and overseeing budgeting.
- Assisting with live events.
- Leading two semester-long sessions of MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, and overseeing the delivery of two youth-led programmes.
- Producing clear, organized, and engaging learning workshops and public programmes tailored to MOCA’s target audiences.
- Creating content within the frameworks, guidelines, and structures set by MOCA Toronto for various in-person and online platforms, including photography, writing, and editing.
- Establishing and nurturing both new and pre-existing community and programming relationships.
- Collaborating with the Learning Coordinator and Art Educators on educational programme development and delivery, including school tours, workshops, and programmes.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Must-haves
- A minimum of three years of professional experience in the development, execution, and/or research of arts, learning, or public programmes, with a strong background in community engagement and inclusion.
- Knowledge of contemporary art practices.
- Demonstrated experience working with the public, including children (ages 4-14), youth (ages 14-18), and families.
- Proven track record in developing and executing community-based partnerships and collaborations.
- Extensive experience in developing, supporting, or executing a diverse range of public programmes and learning opportunities, such as performances, panel discussions/talks, community-based activations, site-specific events, and group visitations.
- Ability to move tables, chairs, and other equipment weighing up to 30 lbs.
- Ability for evening and weekend work.
Nice-to-haves
- Proficiency in Google Suite and related programmes, including word processing and spreadsheets.
- Familiarity with online project management software, such as Asana, is beneficial.
Benefits Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
About Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada
MOCA Toronto is an inclusive cultural hub at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA supports and promotes forward-thinking artistic experimentation and provides a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration and creativity.
Working across all contemporary art forms, MOCA's exhibitions, installations and programmes empower local artists and engage the Toronto art scene while contributing to international dialogue and scholarship. MOCA presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize artistic production post-2000, primarily through commissioning new work. The museum values artistic freedom and production, its relationships with artists and broad accessibility, with programming that includes in-person and online learning opportunities, workshops, tours, teacher resources, publications and mentoring programmes for the local arts community.
MOCA actively cultivates partnerships with other arts and culture organizations, government agencies, educational institutions and neighbourhood community-based projects to further engage residents and visitors to our culturally rich and hyper-diverse city.
MOCA is a nonprofit charitable organization.
Our Vision: The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary and internationally renowned through our work with artists. A place for everyone to explore that provokes ideas and discussion and challenges the current cultural moment.
Our Mission: Artists, relationships and experimentation are at the centre of everything we do. MOCA Toronto presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning new work. We foster active dialogue, participation and celebrate complexity; in order to serve as an inclusive cultural hub in this hyper-diverse city and world.