Manager, Rural Sites Nova Scotia Museum

3 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada Government of Nova Scotia Full time

**Competition #**: 43066

**Department**: Communities, Culture, Tourism & Heritage

**Location**: HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**: Permanent

**Union Status**: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

**Closing Date**: 24-Jun-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage contributes to building a province which enhances pride in our creative and diverse communities and people, allowing us to embrace our past and influence our future. Our vision is for Nova Scotia to be an acknowledged leader as a place where cultural identity, expression, and economy prosper. A place where all people honour and embrace diversity and heritage.

The Nova Scotia Museum, consisting of 28 museum sites, is the most decentralized museum in Canada. It is also one of the oldest provincial museums in the country. The Nova Scotia Museum is responsible for the provincial collection of over one million artifacts and specimens housed at museum sites and storage facilities across the province.

About Our Opportunity

The Manager of the Rural Sites oversees operations at the 25 rural sites of the Nova Scotia Museum. This includes directly supervising staff at the 8 Directly-Managed Nova Scotia Museum sites (Balmoral Grist Mill, Sutherland Steam Mill, Lawrence House Museum, Fisherman's Life Museum, Clifton Museum Park, Shand House Museum, Prescott House Museum and Uniacke Estate Museum Park) and oversight of HR and financial management. Additionally, the Manager of Rural Sites is responsible for setting operational standards for the 17 locally-managed rural Nova Scotia Museum sites and acting as a liaison between local management staff and boards and the Nova Scotia Museum.

The Manager assumes a lead role in enhancing all aspects of museum operations, including visitor services, interpretation, collections and infrastructure. The Manager works in collaboration with Archives, Museums and Libraries staff to ensure the rural museums' goals align with those of the broader department, and to ensure that the museums represent the broader Nova Scotia Museum mandate.

The Manager works collaboratively across the Nova Scotia Museum system, Archives, Museum and Libraries and the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage, as well as across government and with various stakeholders and sectors to build collaborative relationships and innovate.

The Manager of Rural Sites reports to the Director, Nova Scotia Museum

Primary Accountabilities

Accountable for strategic and operational leadership through direction, planning, evaluation, and implementation requiring experience with and knowledge of legislation, regulations, policies, and programs to support museum, departmental and government priorities.
Accountable for managing the financial and human resources of the directly-managed rural sites, including development and management of budgets for directly-managed rural sites.
Ensures proper protocols regarding procurement and financial expenditures are adhered to.
Oversees team of rural site managers, developing work plans, project strategies and procedures to ensure priorities are met and operational activities align with broader museum and departmental goals
Provides Ministerial briefings, handles media enquiries, develops speaking notes and provides direction to executive leadership
Ensuring mechanisms are in place for supervisors and managers to monitor and report operational issues on policies, planning and solutions for identified issues.
Reviews programs and implements plans for efficiencies and innovation. Ensures new initiatives meet policies and standards
Works with stakeholders to ensure best practice and museum standards are met, and to encourage site development.
Leads the Rural Site Ops team
Works with contractors and the Manager of Site Maintenance staff to ensure infrastructure projects are completed and meet operational needs.
Promotes diversity and a healthy workplace, ensure respectful workplace standards are met.
Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role you have a University degree in a relevant discipline combined with 7 years of related work experience. You also have knowledge and experience in museum management best practices and the demonstrated ability to clearly communicate museum-related issues to diverse audiences, this should be clearly demonstrated in your cover letter and resume.

Political and museum acumen is required.

You have strong interpersonal skills, and the demonstrated ability to supervise and motivate a large team of specialists, while valuing a diverse, and inclusive work environment. You demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills and have a proven ability to be innovative, lead and execute, addressing issues and demands with diplomacy and tact. You have time management skills to successfully develop and manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines. You can develop and maintain partnerships

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