Assistant Director, Administration

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Administration, Level D

Job Title

Assistant Director, Administration

Department

Administrative Leadership | Museum of Anthropology

Compensation Range

$8,305.08 - $12,952.33 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

March 16, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

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Job Summary

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC is Canada’s foremost university museum. The Museum is unique not only because of its physical setting but because it has created unusually close relationships with cultural communities in British Columbia and around the world through experimental and collaborative research methods and exhibitions. Part of MOA’s originality comes from it being a public, research and teaching museum. The cutting-edge scholarship of the Museum makes possible a range of exhibitions and events that cut across traditional disciplinary divisions to provoke creative engagement and dialogue. It is also one of British Columbia’s most popular museums, welcoming over 180,000 visitors each year.

The Assistant Director, Administration and Operations is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of the Museum’s administrative, earned revenue, IT and facility operations to support its academic, research, teaching and public activities. The position oversees the Museum’s finances, human resources, public sector funding, and visitor services (admissions, shop, facility rentals, and membership) in such a way that enhances the Museum’s financial viability and operational stability and safety and public profile. The position serves on the Museum’s management committee, participating in strategic planning and operational goals. The position oversees MOA’s Administration and Operations Department.

Organizational Status
The position reports to the Museum’s Director. Together with the Museum’s Management Committee, is responsible for setting strategic and operational priorities of MOA’s major activities and initiatives and provides direction and supervision to the Museum’s project team. This position communicates directly with artists, curators, conservators, donors, and other institutions from all over the world. Works with a variety of UBC departments and units, faculty members and various internal stakeholders across campus. Works with multiple vendors, suppliers, contract designers and editors. Engages and builds reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities, cultural communities, artists, and other partners.

Work Performed

The Assistant Director is the overall administrator of the Museum’s operations.

The position is directly responsible to the Museum Director and serves as Deputy Director when the Director is away. The Assistant Director works in close cooperation with and co-ordinates the Museum’s management team. The Assistant Director contributes directly to the formulation of strategic policy, recommends strategic priorities and works in conjunction with all staff and student staff. The position also works in close cooperation with academic and non-academic administrators in other departments in the faculty and around the university.

Worked Performed

Strategic
- Provides leadership, management and administrative oversight of the following areas of the museum’s operations: administrative, earned revenue, IT and facility operations to support its academic, research, teaching and public activities.
- Develops strategies to improve Museum operations, advance strategic priorities, and implement new initiatives;
- Develops business/financial plans to meet specific programming and operational initiatives.
- Acts as Deputy Director when the Director is unavailable
- Works with the Director and Management Committee to ensure institutional targets are being met.
- Provides authoritative administrative advice to the Director on finance, human resources, resources allocation, and implementation of strategic priorities.
- Aligns overall management and administrative functions of the Museum within its mission, vision and strategic priorities and those of the Faculty of Arts and UBC;
- Develops and implements c