- Works with the Executive Director, Leadership to understand and implement the strategic goals and business objectives of Banff Centre as they relate to cultural leadership programming overall.
- Works with the Director of Indigenous leadership and Executive Director, Leadership, in developing an innovative and comprehensive cultural leadership program plan, annually and over a 3-year planning horizon, which includes program evaluation metrics.
- Designs programs that are in alignment with our Strategic Plan (Creative Pathways, released 2021); the provincial government's Alberta 2030 post-secondary strategy, which focuses on training for jobs and work-based learning; and Canadian Heritage's arts training objectives.
- Leads diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion efforts to ensure programs are representative and inclusive in order to reflect the changing cultural, economic, and political developments that affect cultural leaders across the Canadian and Bow Valley landscape.
- Works closely with Recruiting, and the Admissions office to ensure program materials are clear, comprehensive, and accessible to potential applicants. This includes Ensure timely and complete delivery of program design narrative and tuition and scholarship allocation prior to programs being approved to be launched in market.
- Financial Management
- Responsible for managing the Cultural Leadership budget required to deliver excellent programming.
- Relationship Building
- Utilizes effective contacts within the arts and culture, education, and funding communities nationally and internationally to ensure the on-going relevance of cultural leadership programs.
- Provides innovative and strategic leadership, vision and program direction and design to cultural leadership communities, through experience and knowledge of the arts and culture communities.
- Human Resource Management, Team Building and Interdivisional Cooperation
- Ensures that employees fully understand their roles, responsibilities, and performance standards and provide ongoing formal and informal feedback, coaching and support as employees strive to achieve expectations.
- Ensures a positive and safe work environment for all Banff employees, aligned with Banff Centre's policies including but not limited to code of ethics, anti-harassment policies, contractual obligations, and strategic directions.
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access
- Support the development and implementation of strategies to promote inclusion, diversity, equity, and access across Banff Centre
- Support team members participating in training session to educate on unconscious bias, cultural competency, and other diversity-related development processes.
- Support assessments of workplace accessibility for employees, participants and guests with disabilities and work with Talent Management and Culture to determine and implement improvements as required.
- Ensure work environment is welcoming and progressive for members of diverse and Indigenous Communities.
- Design, implement and monitor Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Actions where appropriate. Network and reputation in the Canadian and International arts community to attract high profile faculty and build Banff Centre profile and reputation in the cultural leadership realm.
- Experience working with external donors and stakeholders from government, the private and public sectors
- Adept in the planning and organization required to successfully launch multiple projects at once.
- Multi-lingual (an asset)
- Experience in capital projects (an asset)
- In accordance with the terms of employment governing Management/PSP employees, this is a salaried, fulltime position, subject to a 6 month probationary period.
- The successful candidate will enjoy twenty paid vacation days and four personal days annually, extended medical and dental benefits, and participation in an employer-matched pension plan.
Director, Policy - British Columbia, Canada - Alliance for Arts and Culture
Description
Founded in 1933, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development.
What started as a single course in drama has grown to become the global organization leading in arts, culture, and creativity across dozens of disciplines.
From our home in the stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains,
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.
We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.
The incumbent will work closely with the Director of Indigenous Leadership, with the other Arts disciplines at the Centre, and with the Executive Director, Leadership, to plan and design specific portfolio programs, but also cross-disciplinary programs where appropriate.
The incumbent will work closely with the Banff Centre operations and administrative teams to ensure that the innovative cultural leadership programs for mid-career and established leaders are delivered at the highest possible level.
The programs need to find a balance between personal growth and development of the leader (values led leadership, cultural exchange and diplomacy, diversity, equity, empathy and collaboration), and organizational development and design thinking (strategic planning, change management, government relations, marketing and audience development, digital transformation in culture) in order to ensure that the modules directly translate to actionable behaviors once program participants return to their regular roles in organizations or communities.
A professional network of contacts within arts and culture communities in Canada and internationally is also essential, along with a deep understanding of professional development at the post-secondary level and beyond.
The success of the programs rests on the ability of the incumbent to attract a roster of exceptional, sessional leadership faculty and to attract high-quality applicants to the programs.
Reporting to the Executive Director, Leadership below are some key accountabilities:Strategic Planning
Visa Requirements:
Applications may be submitted directly via Organization: The ACT Arts Centre/Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council
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The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is honoured to work on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and 240 other Indigenous communities across BC.
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