National Gallery of Canada Director's Job Posted on Federal Government Website
The federal government has posted a job call for a new director at the National Gallery of Canada.
The listing on the federal government's "appointment opportunities" webpage says the full-time job in Ottawa pays $204,200 to $240,200 a year and emphasizes strong leadership abilities. Applications will be reviewed starting Jan. 9.
The post is vacant because the previous director, Sasha Suda, left in July, three years into her five-year term, to take a museum job in Philadelphia. Her job has been filled on an interim basis by Angela Cassie, who joined the gallery last year as vice-president of strategic transformation and inclusion.
The gallery's deputy director, Kitty Scott, also chief curator, was terminated last Friday. So was the Indigenous curator, Greg Hill, although two more senior managers In the Indigenous hierarchy survived what Cassie told staff this week was a "difficult, but necessary decision, to reorganize the team, and reorient our efforts to support our plan."
The job posting indicates the director should be an innovative and strategic leader with superior analytical skills, high ethical standards, sound judgment, superior interpersonal skills and collegiality.
The government is looking for someone trained in art history or a related field, with previous experience at the CEO or senior executive level. Experience in fundraising, financial management, reporting to a board and leading national and international outreach are also required.
The director is expected to understand the challenges and opportunities facing cultural institutions, as well as the government's policy agenda for national museums. Also mentioned is the ability to "focus the energies and talents of the employees."
"Under the Museums Act, the mandate of the National Gallery of Canada is to develop, maintain and make known, throughout Canada and internationally, a collection of works of art, both historic and contemporary, with special, but not exclusive reference to Canada and to further knowledge, understanding, and enjoyment of art in general among all Canadians. The gallery is accountable to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage," the posting notes.
"The director is responsible, under the direction of the board of trustees, for providing corporate leadership for the management of the museum’s resources and assets and for the effectiveness and efficiency of its operations in meeting its mandated objectives."
To see the posting, go here.
Source: Government of Canada
