Film Commissioner

**Requisition ID**:44657

**Organization**

Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, Vancouver has a commitment to becoming a City of Reconciliation. Vancouver consistently ranks as one of the world’s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Named among Canada's Top 100 Employers, BC's Top Employers, and Canada's Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver seeks colleagues who can help shape and embody our core commitments to sustainability, reconciliation, equity and outstanding quality of life for all residents.

Consider joining our committed team of staff and being part of an innovative, inclusive and engaging workplace. Working at the City of Vancouver and within the public service can be a rewarding career where you play a key role in ensuring impartial and equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and addressing the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.

**Main Purpose and Function**:
The Vancouver Film Commissioner serves as the primary strategic business liaison between the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver film industry, complementing the relationships the industry has with the City with regard to film permitting and other operational and regulatory interfaces. The Film Commissioner is responsible for ensuring that the City is appropriately supporting the film industry, through the development and execution of relevant strategies, action plans and initiatives, and through maintaining relationships with a wide range of industry stakeholders. The position is the primary strategic business interface between the City of Vancouver and the film industry, complementing the operational/regulatory interfaces between the City and the industry that are carried out across several City business areas, including film activity permitting, and provision of access to City-owned property for the purposes of filming.

**Key Contacts and Reporting Relationships**:
The Film Commissioner stewards relationships with, collaborates with, and influences a wide range of technical and executive-level individuals external to the City who are related to the film industry, who work in the public, private, and non-for-profit sectors. The position is responsible for serving as the primary staff support person for film-related advisory committees and/or task forces established by City Council. The Film Commissioner works with a broad range of external and internal stakeholders and partners to develop and support strategic approaches to critical and cross-cutting issues. The Film Commissioner at times service as the primary liaison between the City and external consultants or contractors.

**Specific Duties/Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for proactively and reactively identifying changes to the City’ policies, regulations, programs and processes that could be beneficial to the film industry, and working with colleagues to prioritise, design and implement these changes.
- Advises senior management and City Council on film industry-related matters as required.
- Maintains a portfolio of projects intended to support to the film industry, serving as the project manager for many of these projects.
- Leads proactive, constructive, ongoing lines of communication between the film industry and the City of Vancouver, and to this end, ensures the appropriate official communication forums are in place - which might include standing industry advisory groups and/or periodic stakeholder consultations.
- Ensures the City maintains strong, positive working relationships with the individuals and organisations that comprise the local film industry ecosystem, including the provincial and federal agencies and government ministries responsible for supporting the film industry, economic development agencies responsible for business attraction and retention, and industry associations.
- Participates in relevant local film-related events, and at times, convenes film industry stakeholders.
- Ensures the City has the appropriate data, research and business intelligence concerning the film industry, monitoring and evaluating trends and precedents in order to inform related regulation/policy/program development and to support the business attraction and retention efforts of related entities.
- Other duties/responsibilities and assigned.

**Minimum Qualification Requirements**:
Education and Experience

An undergraduate university degree with a focus on business, management, public administration, or a similar discipline and a minimum five years of experience in a role that has centered on relationship management, ideally working in or alongside the film or related creative industry and a minimum three years of experience in public sector policy and/or program development and implementation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Considerable knowledge of public sector, ideally municipal, operations, policy/