Operations Intern

**Description**:
The Operations Intern will support both Human Resources and Operations functions, with a focus on advancing the organization's Equity Project. Working closely with the HR team, the intern will assist in improving recruitment, onboarding, and departmental policies to align with equity and inclusion practices. They will also support day-to-day operational activities, including facility communications, data entry, database management, vendor invoice processing, and general office administration. This role offers hands-on experience in a dynamic, collaborative environment, contributing to organizational initiatives that enhance internal systems, support staff, and ensure smooth operations.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assist in developing and executing the Equity Project, contributing to the enhancement of organizational diversity and inclusion practices.
- Assist with HR tasks, including reviewing and enhancing departmental policies and procedures to align with the Equity Project.
- Support operational tasks, including facility communications and coordination with various departments, to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
- Input data and maintain updated admission and HR databases.
- Following maintenance schedules of office equipment like printers, copiers, and IT systems, and coordinating repairs when necessary.
- Submitting vendor invoices in a timely manner.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Must-haves**
- College or University graduate from a program in Human Resources, Business, Art Administration, Building Management, Museum Studies, Psychology or other related field
- Minimum 1 year of experience in Human Resources
- Basic understanding of HR principles and practices, including recruitment, onboarding, workplace safety and Ontario employment laws and regulations.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and precision
- Accountable & Results Oriented: Demonstrates ethical behaviour and accountability
- This position is funded under the Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage internship program. An individual must follow the Young Canada Works eligibility criteria.

**Nice-to-haves**
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse staff and effectively interface
- Demonstrated research and writing skills and academic literacy
- A strong interest in organizational diversity, equity and inclusion
- A strong interest in contemporary art and familiarity with the arts and cultural landscape in Toronto an asset
- Proficiency in Gsuite and database management

**Benefits**:
Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits

**About Museum of Contemporary Art**:
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary, and internationally renowned through our work with artists. A place for everyone to explore that provokes ideas and discussion and challenges the current cultural moment.

Artists, relationships, and experimentation are at the centre of everything we do. MOCA Toronto presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning new work. We foster active dialogue, participation and celebrate complexity; in order to serve as an inclusive cultural hub in this hyper-diverse city and world.
- Equity, inclusion, and access
- Artist-centered, interdisciplinary and process-oriented
- Critical conversations and transformative work at our core
- Reciprocal and relationship-based
- Locally rooted and globally connected
- Courage and Responsibility

MOCA is a twenty-year-old institution that has experienced numerous iterations over the years. However, two main aspects have remained constant:

- The institution has served as an important gathering space in Toronto and Canada for artists to experiment, celebrate complexity, and offer thought-provoking responses to the current cultural moment
- MOCA has been and is constantly evolving and expanding with our times

In September 2018, MOCA moved into the Auto BLDG, a purpose-designed home in a former industrial space at the heart of a new neighbourhood in the Lower Junction.