Organization Description
Savage Society tells Indigenous stories. Our focus is on developing artistic work that reflects Indigenous world views, sourcing traditional stories and cosmologies and our contemporary realities as Indigenous people for the creation of live public artistic events in both professional theatre venues and community settings. We value both autonomy and collaboration in our work.
Core company values
Story Sovereignty We create space for individuals and communities to locate themselves in their stories, and support them in telling those stories how they choose.
Community Activation Art is a powerful tool to amplify and empower community voices in ways that contribute to Indigenous self-determination and wellbeing
Cultural Embodiment. We ground our work in our Indigenous identities, practices, and living cultures
Website www.savagesociety.ca
The Job
Savage Society seeks an Operations Manager to support the Society’s efforts in daily operational, fundraising, and financial administration working in collaboration with the Managing Producer and contractors on Society programs and projects, to support our artistic work by keeping us organized.
The Candidate
You believe in our mission and are committed to uplifting the voices of Indigenous people. You have experience in administration and/or fundraising. You are comfortable with remote work and the tools to support it. You have excellent organizational and time-management skills and are excited by a really nice spreadsheet. You have some demonstrated related work history (2-5 years). You enjoy researching and implementing systems to increase efficiency and smooth communication. You are able to determine what steps come first in getting an endeavour off the ground. You seek opportunities to improve general work processes, methods and systems and are willing to alter current processes and methods when appropriate
Self-identifying as Indigenous and/or having first-hand knowledge or experience living in and/or working with Indigenous communities will be considered an asset.
Position responsibilities include:
1. Operations Management
· Maintain and improve systems for digital archives of Society electronic resources
· Board administration as needed
· Coordinate team meeting schedules and notes
· Collection of statistical information and maintaining contact database
· Contract administration (preparation of contracts to artists and contractors as required)
· Assisting and representing Savage Society at public events (e.g., shows, outreach) in collaboration with colleagues
2. Fundraising
· Support Managing Producer in grant application process
· Ensuring donor and funder acknowledgement and fulfillment within the organization
· Track and process donations to the Society including charitable tax receipting
· Donor administration including building infrastructure and campaign to develop philanthropic giving base
3. Financial Administration
· Ensure timely reporting to funding agencies and other fiduciary requirements such as CRA, Worksafe BC
· Ongoing budget management together with the Managing Producer
· Receives and processes staff & contractor expenses and petty cash management
· Works with the bookkeeper to maintain the company financial records
4. Communication
· Works together with the Marketing & Communications Manager on the preparation of our newsletter, website updates and social media
QUALIFICATIONS
· Strong organizational and time management skills
· Ability to manage the demands of multiple projects and meet deadlines
· Excellent problem solving skills
· Experience working in an office environment (or equivalent)
· Comfortable working collaboratively as part of a small team
· A commitment to Indigenous Cultural Safety
ASSETS
· Experience in the arts and/or not for Profit
· First-hand knowledge or experience living in and/or working with Indigenous communities
· experience with web-based software and services (e.g., Zoom, Dropbox, Google Suite, Trello or other digital project management system)
