Community Programs Lead

**Join our growing team**

Posting Title: Community Programs Lead

Location: RCMP Heritage Centre

Position Details: Full-Time Position

Compensation: $58,000-$68,000 annual salary (based on experience)

Hours of Work: 40 hours/week and includes evenings and weekends

Qualified applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada or have appropriate documents permitting them to reside and work in Canada.

**Organization Overview**

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is one of Canada’s longest-standing institutions and is deeply embedded in the history and unfolding story of our country. The RCMP and its symbols - the “red serge”, Mounties on horseback, and the Musical Ride - have become icons of Canadian Heritage familiar around the world.

The RCMP Heritage Centre represents a rich space for historical preservation, exploration of alternate perspectives, and the pursuit of reconciliation. It has become a major destination centre that celebrates the traditions and history of the RCMP. More recently, the RCMP Heritage Centre is embarking on an exciting new chapter of its own story by undergoing the process to become established as a national museum in Canada, embracing a new vision with social impact.

To prepare for the path ahead, the Centre is building a team today who is bold, passionate, collaborative, and up for the challenge as we take this journey together and deliver on a vision of _celebration and discovery; reconciliation and reflection,_ for all Canadians.

**Position Overview**

The Community Programs Lead plays a key role in bringing our history to life, by researching, developing, planning, implementing, and evaluating all education and public programs at the museum. This includes a range of activities such as educational programming, both in-person and virtual tours, talks, film screenings, performances, special events and day
- and week-long camps for youth, all designed to further the RCMP Heritage Centre’s objectives and strategies.

The Community Programs Lead ensures these inspiring programs complement and supplement the exhibit strategy, serve the community, involve a broad range of audiences of all ages, and achieve attendance and revenue targets.

The Community Programs Lead develops exceptional experiences for visitors to the RCMP Heritage Centre. The position will be a creative, bold, outside the box thinker who can balance multiple projects at once and adapt to a dynamic environment. We need someone who is flexible, embraces change and can lead a team for success.

**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Cultivates a positive team atmosphere and is able to lead and motivate a highly driven staff within a dynamic organization.
- Builds strong, long-term relationships and partnerships with the RCMP, Indigenous communities, schools, school boards, community groups, among others to develop a keen understanding of needs and opportunities within the larger community.
- Maintains a good understanding of the school curriculum and identifies areas where the museum can support curriculum across the country.
- Works closely with the RCMP Historical Collections Unit (in the Museum) to identify and implement programming opportunities that promote and further the objectives of permanent and temporary exhibits.
- Continually scans the environment for partnership and sponsorship opportunities that support the museum’s objectives through team-building and pooled resources.
- Reports to the CEO and is the direct report for the Centre’s program facilitators.
- Leads the programming team while also participating in and leading program delivery, events, and activities at the ground level.

**Program Development, Promotion, Delivery and Evaluation**
- Creates, promotes and delivers robust and appealing programming for students, families, adults and tourists, in a hybrid program model (virtual and in-Centre) either standalone or with the participation of partner organizations.
- Develops and implements an annual plan and calendar of events that contribute to a high profile for the museum, including a program of tours, an ongoing speaker series at the museum and topical special events throughout the year as well as day-camps and summer camps.
- Recruits, hires and manages part-time staff to assist with specific events such as youth camps.
- Responsibility for recruitment and management/scheduling of volunteers, and growing the volunteer program.
- Works closely with the team to staff events and ensures volunteers receive appropriate training and direction, fulfill their responsibilities effectively and are recognized for their contribution.
- Working with operations and facilities to support appropriate staffing and volunteer numbers for events and activities.
- Participates in operational planning of the museum and annual plans and strategies.
- Supports and collaborates with the marketing team to develop and implement promotional strategies for all programming activities, to ensure effec