Cultural Program and Events Coordinator

Why Guelph:
**What we offer**

We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees. Many of our positions offer:

- Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
- Paid personal days;
- Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100-per-cent employer matching;
- Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
- Employee and Family Assistance Program;
- Parental leave top up program;
- Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
- Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview:
**Key duties and responsibilities**
- Connects cross-departmentally and builds relationships with community stakeholders to create and advance the implementation of arts and cultural policies, projects, programs, and opportunities.
- Develops and coordinates the City’s arts and cultural policies and programs, prepares the calls for proposals, oversees community-based jurying processes, and manages maintenance of the public art collection.
- Provides coordination support for the initiatives and tasks of the Public Art Advisory Committee.
- Supports the development and setting of goals, objectives, and work plans for cultural programming.
- Researches revenue sources, grants, or partnerships to fund development of cultural initiatives.
- Manages the Guelph Culture Map portal, promotes its benefits as a public resource, analyzes and reports on the data, and grows the number of tangible and intangible assets on the site.
- Develops a data base on best practices, trends and data related to municipal cultural practices.
- Develops a data base on cultural metrics in Guelph, for use in planning and program evaluation.
- Coordinates City-hosted civic and special cultural events at public facilities.
- Leads staff and volunteer teams to advance cultural events and programs to ensure coordination of logistics and exceptional customer service and liaises with appropriate staff from various departments.
- Develops plans and coordinates promotion of events and special projects, including preparation of written copy, promotional materials, and dissemination through various social media platforms.
- Tracks and manages budgets for cultural events, programs and projects, including special capital projects and oversees contractors in the delivery of arts and culture programs and services.
- Ensures compliance with all federal and provincial regulations/legislation and City by-laws, policies, and procedures applicable to cultural programs.
- Available for after-hours (evenings and weekends) meetings, programs, and events.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications and requirements**
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, stakeholders, and the general public.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple assignments, programs and projects and adapt to changing work priorities.
- Excellent customer services skills with the ability to deal with the public and co-workers.
- Ability to research and prepare documents for arts and culture policy, grants, reports, calls for artists, commissioning of artwork, and requests for proposals.
- Knowledge of promotional, social, and traditional media platforms to promote events, programs and effectively convey the City’s broader cultural contributions and services.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of Canadian copyright legislation and understanding of principles and disciplines of visual and performing arts practice, as well as familiarity with literary arts and new media.
- Experience with Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and WordPress is an asset.

**Hours of work**

The regular work week will consist of 35 hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

**Pay/Salary**

CUPE 973 Grade 8: $33.19 - $40.76 per hour

**How to apply