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Arrivals Legacy Project, founded by Diane Roberts, is an interdisciplinary arts organisation that centres the creative voices of African, Indigenous, and Racialized artists.
Starting from a position of cultural humility and creative curiosity, we accompany artists as they unearth personal and cultural histories using conventional research and embodied recovery tools, cross-cultural exchange and performative story-making.
This work births new discoveries and plants creative seeds that can be cultivated as future interdisciplinary works.
Our SeedPool virtual studio extends the village circle beyond the Personal Legacy workshops, enabling Alumni artists and creators of change to seed new ideas and story impressions and to co-weave new stories related to their ancestral subject(s).
Seeded by Arrivals Legacy Project’s Diane Roberts and collaborator Jude Wong in 2015, the intention of the space was to give workshop Alums opportunities to creatively work through some of the conundrums and fragments of stories arising from the intensely collaborative process in the workshop space.
YOUR ROLE
We are looking to fill the position of Project Manager. The Project Manager will oversee all elements of projects across ALP including developing and managing timelines, budgets, project related communications, and fund development support. You will be entering the project at a pivotal point where we will be launching two co-related national projects that bring artists, partners, and community contributors together. This role will ensure that opportunities to maximise the cross-cutting objectives of each project are fully exploited; that artists, partners, stakeholders, contractors, and the public are engaged in a timely manner, and that the project team is kept on task and informed about the work of other team members.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO:
- Set up and coordinate meetings and sessions as needed
- Send calendar invites and reminders
- Set agendas and distribute in advance of sessions
- Lead all relevant team meetings and assign note-takers
- Create and manage project timelines, with the team’s support, for the full life cycle of the projects
- Create, manage, and update project budgets in collaboration with the AD and relevant team members
- Report back on project spending vs. budget allocations
- Collaborate on fund development (fundraising, grant writing support) as needed
- Manage communications:
- Internal communications to the team, participants, and stakeholders
- Providing details to the Comms team for external communications as needed
- Provide regular project reports and updates to the team as needed
- Support the project team as needed with administrative and project needs
- Prepare and distribute contracts
- Develop an onboarding guide
- Distribute onboarding guide to incoming partners and collaborators
- Project coordination support
- Booking travel and accommodations for national projects as needed
- Coordinating for hospitality for gatherings and events as needed
- Updating the contact list as required
- A highly organized person who loves planning and tracking
- Detail oriented with an eye for specifics especially numbers for budgets and copy edits for communications
- Passionate and knowledgeable about the arts, decolonial practices, and supporting intersectionality in inclusive spaces
- A direct communicator with a critical lens to ensure that the project not only stays on time, on task, and in budget, but also maintains our goals and mandate
- A strong and clear communicator (verbal and written)
- Able to lead a team, take direction, and delegate and know when each is necessary
- A strong writer, grant writer, and/or fundraiser – any or all of the three!
- Bilingual French and English (an asset not a requirement)
YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS OR ARE WILLING TO LEARN:
- Project management experience
- Financial administration, bookkeeping, or budgeting skills and experience
- Grant writing skills are an asset
- Comfort with digital and in person meetings and collaboration including the use of:
- G-Suite
- MailChimp
- Asana
- Slack
- Zoom
- Leading meetings and writing minutes
WHAT WE OFFER:
- $40/hour for 10-15 hours a week with a possible increase of hours pending funding
- Contract period: As soon as the candidate can start for a minimum of 18 months with possibility of extension and/or growth within the company
- A flexible schedule
- A blend of in person and remote working environment
TO APPLY:
Please submit one PDF with a cover letter describing why you are interested in and a good fit for this position, along with your resume and 2 references that we may contact to: hiring@arrivalslegacy.com by midnight Tuesday, June 6, 2023. We will be conducting online interviews through video conferencing.
While this position is open to all qualified candidates able to legally work in Canada, we strongly encourage candidates who identify as coming from Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) communities to apply including those with intersections in LGBTQ2S, disability, Deaf, and neurodiverse communities. Candidates are invited to self-identify in their applications.
Arrivals Legacy Project, founded by Diane Roberts, is an interdisciplinary arts organisation that centres the creative voices of African, Indigenous, and Racialized artists.
Starting from a position of cultural humility and creative curiosity, we accompany artists as they unearth personal and cultural histories using conventional research and embodied recovery tools, cross-cultural exchange and performative story-making.
This work births new discoveries and plants creative seeds that can be cultivated as future interdisciplinary works.
Our SeedPool virtual studio extends the village circle beyond the Personal Legacy workshops, enabling Alumni artists and creators of change to seed new ideas and story impressions and to co-weave new stories related to their ancestral subject(s).
Seeded by Diane Roberts and collaborator Jude Wong in 2015, the intention of the space was to give workshop Alums opportunities to creatively work through some of the conundrums and fragments of stories arising from the intensely collaborative process in the workshop space.
The Moving Together/Arriving Together project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts Cultivate program. The project’s objectives are to research ways of knowing/criteria for working collaboratively that honour and reflect BIPOC experience, stories, contributions and methodologies; ultimately developing processes that allow partners to articulate and share their own principles and values, feeding both the BIPOC artist/organisation and mainstream (non BIPOC) partners.
YOUR ROLE
We are looking for a Lead Researcher for our project Moving/Arriving Together: Decolonising Creative Partnerships that will run from July 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024. The Lead Researcher will support the research elements of the project in direct collaboration with ALP’s Artistic Director, Diane Roberts. This national project will bring artists, partners, and community contributors together and the Lead Researcher will be an integral part of understanding how we can gather research effectively, lead the coordination of key research elements and provide data analysis as required throughout the project. In addition to working closely with the Artistic Director, this role will work with the ALP Curatorial Dramaturg Working Group, Creative Producer, and other ALP team members including the Communications team.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO:
- Lead the research elements of our project
- Set up and coordinate research meetings and sessions as needed
- Develop surveys as needed to support the research work
- Create research materials and distribute to facilitators and working group members
- Collect responses and data from surveys and research
- Analyse data and research
- Create visual analytics and reports as needed to communicate research findings
- Provide regular project reports and updates to the team as needed
YOU ARE:
- Someone who loves research and learning
- Someone with a strong working knowledge of the cross-Canada arts community (performing arts and/or studio arts)
- Data driven with an interest in using analytics to share research information
- Detail oriented in a research context
- Passionate and knowledgeable about the arts, decolonial practices, and supporting intersectionality in inclusive spaces
- A direct communicator with a critical lens to ensure that key questions are posed and are brought into the research
- A strong and clear communicator (verbal and written)
- Able to lead a research project, take direction, and delegate and know when each is necessary
- Bilingual French and English (an asset not a requirement)
YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS OR ARE WILLING TO LEARN:
- Excellent writing skills
- Research skills
- Data analysis skills
- Visual analytics skills and experience
- Graphic design skills are an asset for this role
- Comfort with digital and in person meetings and collaboration including the use of:
- G-Suite
- Asana
- Slack
- Zoom
- Scheduling app (ie Doodle)
- Leading research meetings and writing minutes
WHAT WE OFFER:
- $1000/month x 6 months, a total contract fee of $6,000
- Contract will run from July 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024 (with the possibility of an extension)
- A flexible schedule
- A blend of in person and remote working environment
TO APPLY:
Please submit one PDF with a cover letter describing why you are interested in and a good fit for this position, along with your resume and 2 references that we may contact to: hiring@arrivalslegacy.com by midnight Tuesday, June 6, 2023. We will be conducting online interviews through video conferencing.
While this position is open to all qualified candidates able to legally work in Canada, we strongly encourage candidates who identify as coming from Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) communities to apply including those with intersections in LGBTQ2S, disability, Deaf, and neurodiverse communities. Candidates are invited to self-identify in their applications.
