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Manager, Music Programs

Aug 26, 2024

Work at Creative BC

Join our team and champion economic development across B.C.’s creative sector

We work collaboratively as a bridge between government and industry to elevate British Columbia’s creative sector through leadership, collaboration, and investment. Creative BC is an independent non-profit with the mandate to provide a highly specialized suite of programs, initiatives, and services to sustain and grow B.C.’s creative industries and promote them around the world. As a member of our team, you’ll understand the business behind creativity and become part of the Province’s only economic development agency of record to help steward this sector.

Build on the organization’s history and reputation by bringing your own integral contributions to our sector-related activities and supports. These include granting programs, motion picture tax credit programs, B.C. film commission services, and overall sector development, promotion, and marketing.

Together we’ll deliver value to the provincial economy with supports and services for the industries we serve, fostering their local capacity and global strength. We’ll do this through partnership with, and support for, thousands of talented people within B.C.’s creative storytelling industries’ exciting and vast provincial ecosystem. Join us and support the B.C. artists, entrepreneurs, creators, companies, festivals, associations, unions, guilds, studios, supply and service businesses and more who together bring made-in-B.C. stories and creative content to life.

The Role 

Creative BC is now seeking a Manager, Music Programs. Reporting to the Vice President, the successful candidate will become part of our Funding Programs Department. Our funding programs team drives creation and export of diverse and dynamic domestic creative content. From development support to international trade fair presence and career development, our team designs and delivers programs and funding opportunities for the creation and promotion of B.C.-owned intellectual property. We also seek to foster the creators, companies, and creative ecosystem behind these products to thrive. We are passionate about our clients’ and our programs’ success, ensuring that our investments have strong economic impacts with positive ripple effects for the communities and industries we serve. Our team of devoted grant administrators take a specialist approach to assist applicants, design and develop funding programs, and analyze their return on investment to deliver on our strategic goals. 

As part of the music team within the Funding Programs Department, your specific responsibilities will include to:

  • Oversee team, service delivery, and people in alignment with the organization’s strategic plan, vision, values, and objectives, reporting monthly and relating funding activities and opportunities at the management table, and liaising and partnering with various levels of government and ministry partners.
  • Manage day-to-day decision-making for the music team, including budget management, resource allocation, capacity building, and performance evaluation of staff and program impacts.
  • Engage in competitive research, analyze results of programs over time, and renew best practices to structure investments that meet funder objectives and industry needs.
  • Advise the Vice President of emerging opportunities and partnerships, program delivery progress and/or issues, and collaborate across departments to support shared objectives, projects, events, and tasks.
  • Establish, track, sustain, and nurture industry and partner relationships; coordinate with leadership and operations on announcements, communications, research, participation in conferences, and presence at industry markets locally and internationally.
  • Sustain industry advisory committees, delivering value and facilitating input for relevance and connection between Creative BC and its clients, stakeholders, and partners.
  • Proactively collaborate within the broader funding department and with the operations team to innovate and enhance delivery, report comparably on funding and program ROI.
  • Contribute to the organization’s overall delivery, operations, and development as a member of the management team.
     

Please read the full job description here.  

Read about Qualifications, Compensation, Eligibility and How to Apply in the following tabs:

Qualifications

 

  • Funding Experience: a minimum of 5 years’ senior experience in the design and delivery of programs focused on economic growth for the industries served.
  • Management Experience: process and people management experience – from overseeing program teams, and coordinating operations, to overseeing projects and ensuring smooth client delivery.
  • Technical Knowledge: A strong understanding of the ecosystem of investment, structures and levers of program design, and program evaluation reporting methodologies.
  • Communication Skills, Integrity, and Discretion: Efficient and proficient written, verbal and listening abilities; honesty, ethical behaviour, and ability to maintain confidentiality when required while acting with fairness in interactions with others.
  • Client Service in a Funding Environment: adept at industry consultation, stakeholder relations, applicant services, and recipient management to support organizational requirements and government funding contracts and associated government relations.

Compensation

This is a Full-Time Permanent role. The starting salary for this position will be based on the successful candidate’s competencies, knowledge, and skills while considering internal pay structures and equity. The typical annual salary range to begin is $89,000 – $92,000, underpinned by Creative BC’s compensation philosophy that rewards and motivates performance. As part of Creative BC’s total compensation package, this position is eligible to participate in a generous benefits package that includes: participation in Creative BC’s extended health and dental plan; three weeks’ vacation annually; matched participation in B.C.’s Public Service Pension Plan, and more.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this hybrid work position, you must be able to work at Vancouver’s Creative BC Offices on any given day of the week—with requirements to be present on a standard weekly basis for collaboration with your team and also as required to service our clients’ ongoing need for in-person meetings.  In addition, to be eligible, you must be able to work in Canada on a continuous basis throughout your employment with Creative BC. Therefore, if this is a permanent role, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to accept the permanent job offer. Eligibility to work in Canada is granted through citizenship, permanent resident status, or a work permit in the form of authorization to work in Canada under the federal Immigration Act. If you have a valid temporary work permit, you may be eligible for temporary or term work, but only until your work permit expires or is renewed.

Values

With values of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and wisdom, Creative BC is committed to reconciliation and strives to reflect the communities we serve. To ensure diverse teams, we encourage and prioritize applications from members of groups that are historically, persistently, and systemically underrepresented including Indigenous, Black and people of Colour; people identifying as 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or non-binary; people living with visible and invisible disabilities; and members of other equity-seeking groups. Creative BC also encourages applicants to self-identify, if they wish to do so, during the application process.

How to Apply

Please submit both your cover letter and your resume to careers@creativebc.com by October 28, 2024. Creative BC is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at careers@creativebc.com.

 

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