EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR

Position: Executive Director, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Society

Term: Full-time

Salary: $118,000 per annum plus dental, health, and life insurance after 3 months

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This is an amazing time to be a leader of the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre (KDCC). As a leader, you embrace the deepening of our First Nations cultural mandate and our role as a significant gathering place in Whitehorse with over 1,000 events a year. KDCC has a proud cultural and gathering space legacy all achieved within a wise governance and fiscal balanced-budget context to ensure KDCC’s continued strength and vibrancy far into the future.

Check out our Strategic Plan at https:/https://kwanlindunculturalcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Strategic-Plan-Jan-12-2024.FINAL_.pdf to read about KDCC’s exciting plans for the future.

You understand the power that artists bring to strengthen a First Nation’s identity and how they bring people together as a community to celebrate traditions developed over thousands of years.

You have leadership, financial, and administrative management experience and bring your logistical and operational understanding of venue and event management of this very busy Centre.

In this role, you’ll report to the KDCS Governance Council, manage an amazing and diverse staff team who act as operator and caretaker of a gorgeous institution consisting of a longhouse, multi-purpose room, artist studio, gallery, classrooms, healing room, and waterfront outdoor ceremonial space.

Whether you’re building budgets, presenting to Chief and Council or pitching in at a special event, your underlying focus is always on how the space and its staff work to support First Nations artists and tell guests the story of the Kwanlin Dün people. Located on the banks of Chu Níikwän (the Yukon River), the KDCC is a focus point for Kwanlin Dün culture and community. Working under the strategic direction of our wise and caring Governance Council, that’s your guiding principle in this position.

You have worked on capital projects in the past and are excited to work with the Chu Níikwän Limited Partnership (CNLP) and Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB) on the potential development of the new adjoining Conference Centre and determining the role of KDCC in its ongoing operations.

This Cultural Centre venue and its role in the community are dynamic, which is why you are too. You’re as comfortable implementing a strategic plan to lead the organization as you are networking at a Yukon Convention Bureau event or hosting cultural programming. You build strong relationships with your talented staff of 25+ just as easily as you establish long-term partnerships with the Kwanlin Dün community and funding providers. You crunch numbers for breakfast, chat arts and culture for lunch, and draft policy for dinner, with a side of solid communication skills for dessert. You have as much experience with business and cultural development as you have been governed by a non-profit board.

You’re as open to learning from the community as you are to mentoring those around you, in order to continue the financial and future sustainability of the KDCC. Your vision is clear, but you’re flexible and able to adapt. You give and receive feedback with grace. Like us, you’re inspired and motivated by the stories of this community, this land, and this people. You have an understanding of our past, a familiarity with our present, and a deep desire to help us write the future.

HOW TO APPLY

A cover letter, Statement of Purpose (stating why your leadership, experience, and expertise would enhance the future of the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre), and resumé can be submitted to search@kdcc.ca.

Please include KDCC Executive Director Search in the subject line. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2024.