Social Planner Iii

7 months ago

Vancouver, Canada The City of Vancouver Full time

**Requisition ID**:41003

**Organization**

Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, Vancouver has a commitment to becoming a City of Reconciliation. Vancouver consistently ranks as one of the world’s most liveable cities and is working towards being the greenest city in the world. Named among Canada's Top 100 Employers, BC's Top Employers, and Canada's Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver seeks colleagues who can help shape and embody our core commitments to sustainability, reconciliation, equity and outstanding quality of life for all residents.

Consider joining our committed team of staff and being part of an innovative, inclusive and rewarding workplace.

**Main Purpose and Function**
The senior position is responsible for cultural policy and program development, for overseeing the City’s arts and cultural grants and awards programs, and for managing cultural planning initiatives. The position identifies new and emerging trends in grants and awards, determining new criteria, evaluations and performance targets for the Cultural Grants portfolio and the City’s cultural awards programs, impacting new programs and initiatives and setting long-term planning objectives.

**Key Contacts and Reporting Relationships**
This is a senior position in the Arts, Culture and Tourism Department reporting to the Assistant Director. This senior role combines the skills of professional cultural planning, with extensive experience in the not-for-profit arts and cultural sector. Liaising with elected officials, a range of civic departments, other government and private sector organizations, arts community members and community groups, the incumbent initiates community consultation processes, formulates cultural development strategies, and implements funding programs, including joint programs with other funding agencies and oversees program evaluation.

**Specific Duties and Responsibilities**
- Responsible for grant program evaluation, programming, reviews and develops and makes recommendations to City Council on current and new support programs.
- Provides supervision and direction to a staff of five (5) planners, multiple consultants, and senior planners in other departments to identify new and emerging trends in grants and awards.
- Foresees and responds to the Vancouver’s changing demographics and cultural ecology with coordinated grant implementation strategies.
- Leads the annual budget allocation for each of the grant program streams.
- Oversees the preparation of council reports, policy documents and other written materials; to make presentations to Council, relevant advisory committees, other civic staff and community groups, attends arts and cultural events.
- Liaises with internal/external government representatives, private sector interests, creative industry representatives, artists, non-profit organizations and community groups.
- Leads a variety of cultural planning and development assignments.
- Coordinates and chairs internal and external meetings, as well as represents the department on extra-departmental reviews and projects.
- Responsible for and leads the delivery of the Arts Awards, the Vancouver Book Award, Poet Laureate etc.
- Oversees the grants management system and a national arts database - repositories of key data for assessing, monitoring, and reporting on the City’s funding impact in the arts sector.
- Responds to internal and external inquiries and perform other work as required.

**Qualifications**
Education and Experience:

- University degree, preferably at a Masters level in the arts, arts management or community planning, with considerable (10 years) experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.
- Considerable experience working with or within the arts and culture sector.
- Demonstrated experience working with complex planning issues within the public sector and municipal processes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Considerable knowledge of the arts and culture sector and sources of sector information.
- Strong relationships and experience working with local Nations xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and urban Indigenous peoples and equity deserving communities.
- Applied knowledge of Vancouver Charter, project approval processes, other applicable regulatory frameworks, and of how various regulations relate to each other.
- Ability to identify, analyze and prioritize issues and to develop and implement action plans.
- Ability to organize, coordinate and track multiple, multi-dimensional projects and interdepartmental.
- staff teams with extensive layers of information and complex partner and stakeholder relationships.
- Ability and experience working in a political environment and ability to work diplomatically and persuasively with staff and community groups.
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