We’re Hiring a Social Media Co-Manager (Curator)
Forget The Box Media is a federally incorporated not-for-profit organization. Our raison d’être is Forget The Box(.ca), Montreal's premiere Anglo arts magazine, committed to increasing the visibility of ground-level, underground, and marginalized artists through hyper-local arts journalism.
We are looking for a Social Media Co-Manager (Curator) to spearhead our digital infrastructure, text continuity, and backend scheduling!
This is a remote, desktop-focused role. You won’t be chasing down visual trends or running around the city. Instead, you’ll be the meticulous structural backbone of our digital platforms, ensuring our text formatting is flawless, our grids are organized, and our extensive historical archives remain active.
This is a 6-month volunteer contract to start. We are all volunteers right now, working hard to build out these operations so they are fully prepared for core funding. Following a successful 6-month review, the role transitions to a monthly honorarium model, with the ultimate goal of becoming a paid contractual position once our upcoming fundraising campaigns and core operational grants are secured. As part of this role, free specific not-for-profit focused social media training will be provided.
What You’ll Be Doing
Main Grid Curation: You will access our designated weekly folders in Google Workspace to retrieve approved, verbatim copy and assets. You will format, organize, and schedule these pieces (Feature Friday, Montreal’s PARADISE, Features, and Wires) across our main Instagram and Facebook feeds using Meta Business Suite.
Threads Platform Layout: You will format, optimize, and mirror our weekly text-based editorial pieces directly onto Threads to anchor the magazine in local literary, theatrical, and journalism discourse.
The Legacy Archive Strategy: You will audit our live site (www.forgetthebox.ca) to resurrect and highlight high-value historical pieces (such as past venue profiles or legacy artist interviews) via Stories with clean link stickers to introduce our extensive backlog to our growing follower base.
Data Logging & Auditing: You will track baseline engagement metrics to deliver high-level data insights directly to our Creative Director, ensuring we have the hard performance data required for our upcoming grant and funding applications.
Who You Are
You love the Montreal scene: You are deeply invested in Montreal’s underground arts, indie theatre, and DIY spaces.
You find peace in clean layouts: You are a logistics-minded person who gets genuine satisfaction from neat grids, organized folders, and a highly predictable weekly posting cadence.
You have the technical toolkit: You have direct, hands-on experience navigating Meta Business Suite (Instagram/Facebook scheduling dashboards) and the Google Workspace ecosystem.
You understand brand integrity: You respect digital media nuance and can strictly protect our brand's voice, keeping our tone authentic, peer-to-peer, and entirely free of corporate PR-speak.
You respect identity boundaries: You adhere strictly to our absolute rule to never infer or assume an artist's identity markers (race, heritage, pronouns, orientation) unless they are explicitly stated in our editorial text.
How to Apply
To apply, please send your CV along with a cover letter briefly explaining who you are, why you love the arts, and any relevant digital, media, or organizing experience you have.
Please send your application to our Creative Director, Andrew Jamieson, at andrew@forgetthebox.ca
Help Us Fund Underground Art: Join Our Volunteer Grant Team!
Forget The Box Media is a federally incorporated not-for-profit, and our mission is simple: support ground level, underground, and marginalized artists. From hyper-local arts coverage on Forget The Box(.ca) to workshops, mentorship programs, and live community events, we're building real infrastructure for independent culture.
To keep this engine running, we are building a dedicated team of Volunteer Grant Writers & Coordinators!
What you’ll be doing:
Drafting proposal narratives and assembling grant application packages for municipal, provincial, and federal funders (CAM, CALQ, Canada Council, etc.).
Working alongside project leads to translate artistic ideas into submission-ready applications.
Who we’re looking for:
Grant writers, or communications students, or artists looking for hands-on NPO experience.
Organized collaborators who can hit internal deadlines in a remote environment.
Anyone passionate about keeping local, independent culture funded and accessible.
Interested? Send a brief introduction along with relevant grant writing or organizational experience to our Creative Director, Andrew Jamieson, at andrew@forgetthebox.ca.
Write for Forget The Box(.ca)
Forget The Box(.ca), the flagship digital magazine of the federal not-for-profit Forget The Box Media, is actively expanding its contributor pool. We are seeking passionate cultural journalists, critics, and writers to help us document Montreal’s ground-level, underground, and marginalized art scenes.
We operate as a hyper-local, community-focused publication dedicated to English-language arts journalism. Our contributors cover everything from DIY music events and independent theatre productions to grassroots festivals and underground gallery openings across the city.
How We Work: The Contributor Pool & Freelance Structure
Accepted writers join our active internal contributor pool. On an ongoing basis through our Google Space, our editorial team distributes a curated list of upcoming assignments, press previews, and review tickets. Additionally, the pool serves as a direct pipeline for writers to pitch their own immediate ideas. There are no caps on how frequently contributors can pitch or claim assignments from the pool, offering writers a consistent, reliable volume of work.
Please note: Writers interested specifically in long-form Features are not required to join the ongoing contributor pool or the Google Space; we accept and publish long-form Feature work on a purely independent, project-by-project freelance basis.
Our Editorial Formats & Honorarium Structure
We operate on a structured freelance honorarium system. Writers are commissioned under two distinct editorial formats:
Wires (5 cents per word): These are our sharp, time-sensitive, and reactive "live transmissions" from the front lines of the local scene. Typically ranging from 800 to 1,200 words (with a strict maximum cap of 1,500 words), Wires are tasked with documenting the heartbeat of Montreal's art scene—the here and now. They are the home for immediate theatre reviews, album critiques, gallery openings, and festival coverage, prioritizing visceral, real-time reporting and the writer's unique creative perspective over dense historical context.
Features (10 cents per word): These are our long-form, intensive cornerstones of arts journalism. Features are deep dives that typically clock in at 2,500+ words. This is where we want complex essays, historical excavations, hot takes, commentaries, artist portraits, and philosophical meditations on the creative process. Features are our deep-dive narratives that document the "why" and "how" of a Montreal artist or movement, alongside extensive contributions to our ongoing Venue Series (documenting the history and survival of physical underground spaces). Whether you're tracking a massive movement or writing an exhaustive cultural analysis on the literal graffiti in Montreal venue bathrooms, we want to read it.
Who We Are Looking For
We want writers who are deeply embedded in, or curious about, Montreal's diverse creative fabric. Whether you are an experienced journalist or an emerging writer looking to build a portfolio of verified, hands-on arts criticism, we provide an editing process that respects your voice and sharpens your craft.
How to Apply
Please review the options below and contact the appropriate editor based on your writing interests. For all submissions, please include a current CV (or a summary of relevant writing experience) and two or three writing samples (links or PDFs) that showcase your voice and critical perspective. Forget The Box(.ca) is deeply committed to mentorship, and we absolutely welcome applications from emerging voices. If you don't have published writing samples yet, that’s okay! Just use your introduction to explain why you are passionate about the Montreal art scene and what you want to cover.
To Pitch a Feature: If you are interested in pitching a Feature, please reach out to our Creative Director, Andrew Jamieson, at andrew@forgetthebox.ca. Include a brief introduction explaining your concept and your connection to the subject.
To Join the Contributor Pool (Wires): Please reach out to our Creative Director, Andrew Jameison, at andrew@forgetthebox.ca. Include a brief introduction detailing what specific disciplines you are most passionate about covering.