Dean, Victoria Conservatory of Music

**The Organization**

**The Victoria Conservatory of Music** is much more than a music school: it is a creative hub where music, technology, and vision converge - an environment where students can stretch their musical imaginations and audiences listen together. The Conservatory’s beautiful Alix Goolden Performance Hall is a premier, 135 year-old concert space for the Greater Victoria region. Known as the largest independent music school in Western Canada, the Conservatory is also a place where people come for the health and wellness benefits that music brings through the nation’s largest and most impactful music therapy service.

**The Opportunity**
**The Dean of the Victoria Conservatory of Music** has the responsibility and authority to direct and manage music-related programming for the Conservatory, including overseeing the integrity and visibility of the community and postsecondary education programs, music therapy, adaptive learning, and wellness programs, in order to ensure the Conservatory continues to develop and build its reputation as a leading centre in Canada for music education, performance, and wellness.

As a key member of the Conservatory’s executive team, the Dean actively participates in setting the strategic direction for the Conservatory. The Dean is accountable for leading the Conservatory's education and artistic vision and ensuring the effective functioning of all aspects of the programming operations to support and meet the targets of the Conservatory’s strategic plan.

The Dean is a leader in developing and maintaining a safe, welcoming, productive, and inspiring environment for learning, performance, and wellness wherever the Conservatory’s programs are delivered.

**Role and Responsibilities - Dean, Victoria Conservatory of Music**
Key Accountabilities in Educational, Artistic & Music Therapy/Wellness
The Dean collaboratively supervises all department heads who form the Artistic Directorate, which plans and directs all activities within the Conservatory’s program areas.

**Program areas include**:

- Ann & George Nation Conservatory School of Classical Music
- Chwyl Family School of Contemporary Music
- School of Music Technology & Creativity, including Early Childhood Music and Music Outreach
- Department of Postsecondary Studies
- Centre for Music Therapy & Wellness

**Program oversight includes**:

- Developing Curriculum, services development, and ongoing artistic assessments of all programs
- Creating and Managing modes and environments of program delivery
- Actively provides the development of budget planning and ongoing fiscal management
- Ensures the quality of programming and artistic integrity of all program-related public performances by students and/or faculty
- Manages faculty service-related matters

**Specific Responsibilities Include**:

- Creating opportunities for Community Studio (Individual), Group, and Ensemble Instruction models and Fall|Winter|Spring|Summer terms
- Provides oversight of Postsecondary and other advanced training credentialed and non-credentialed programs that are delivered through the Conservatory|Camosun College partnership or the Conservatory’s designations with the Private Training Institutes Branch of the BC Ministry
- Works collaboratively in the development of Music Therapy, Adaptive Learning and Wellness Programs

**Management and Administration**
- Creates all Artistic Programming, provides Staff Management and their Development
- Is the leader in all Faculty Management areas
- Provides Budget and Operational oversight
- Is actively involved in Fundraising and Stakeholder Engagement
- Provides oversight of registration policies, procedures, and systems
- Collaborates with the Events and Partnerships team, developing performance initiatives and overseeing flagship concerts
- Is responsible for the hiring, management, performance evaluation, and termination of artistic staff, faculty, and members of the Artistic Directorate Committee in conjunction with the CEO

**Visibility and Reputation of the Conservatory**
- The Dean will play a vital role in enhancing the visibility and positive reputation of the Conservatory
- Creates programs, opportunities, and activities that enhance the Conservatory as a Western Canadian preeminent centre for music excellence
- Maintains a cohesive collaboration between the Artistic Directorate Committee, the Director of Marketing and Communications
- Drives student recruitment initiatives and activities
- Serves as an ex-officio member of the Board of Governors
- Facilitates the meetings and work of the Artistic and Academics Board Committee
- Represents the artistic, educational, and music-therapy perspectives and activities to the CEO and Board of Governors

**Key Characteristics**

A natural decision-maker who is creative and resilient, the Dean will embrace a healthy organizational culture based on strategic, artistic, and operational partnerships. With insight and experience in leveraging financial, h