[BCMA] Job Posting: Director, SFU Galleries

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Job Posting

*Director, SFU Galleries  *



*Context*

SFU Galleries encourages and advances conceptual and experimental programs
that explore ways in which contemporary art is socially and politically
engaged. It does so within the context of Simon Fraser University, a public
research university known for its radical past committed to intellectual
freedom, interdisciplinary research, innovative programming, and support
for artists to exhibit, create work, study, and teach over its
fifty-four-year history.



SFU Galleries’ mandate is to exhibit, research, collect, publish, educate,
and develop programs in the field of contemporary art and in contemporary
approaches to art history. The mission is to present, study and collect art
that engages, challenges, strengthens and enriches local, national and
international communities and art audiences. This is done through the
exploration of current art practices and ideas, including the crucial
considerations of BC and nation, activating them through exhibitions,
publications and events, and caring for the SFU Art Collection.



There are three distinct galleries under SFU Galleries: SFU Gallery,
Burnaby (established 1970), Audain Gallery, Vancouver (established 2010),
and Teck Gallery, Vancouver (established 1989). SFU Galleries stewards the
SFU Art Collection and is responsible for public art installations
throughout the university’s campuses. SFU Galleries report to the Vice
President, External, with a focus on advancing engagement between the
university and the public through art, and has strong ties to the School
for the Contemporary Arts along with the various campuses and faculties.

*The Role*

This Director role combines managerial, curatorial and public relations
aspects, representing SFU’s visual arts to the public and the university
community in support of knowledge, innovation, creation and research. The
Director provides leadership in promoting and implementing the art
galleries’ long-term initiatives, including a strategic plan and the
planning and development of new gallery spaces such as the planned SFU Art
Museum which will replace the SFU Gallery.  Through innovative and
challenging curatorial exhibitions, programming and publications, the
Director represents the University’s vital and critical commitment to the
visual arts. This position oversees and directs the acquisition,
preservation, and display of works of art within the art galleries, as well
as the overall management of the SFU Collection (approximately 5,500
works). The
Director will maintain and continue to expand a network of internal and
external contacts in the arts community and enlist the support of
administrators, public funders, benefactors, donors, and the public. This
position oversees budgets and manages galleries operations and staff.

*Qualifications*

As a professional working in an academic environment, this position
requires a unique range of expertise and experience.  These include a deep
understanding of contemporary art in its local, national and international
contexts along with curatorial practices and principles, and the ability to
recognize the possibilities of research-based exhibition projects and
programs which engage the SFU academic community while appealing to wider
audiences. A collaborative and collegial approach, team leadership,
fundraising and operational management experience, and strategic
capabilities along with an understanding of the process of conceptualizing
and building a new museum facility are also required. A post-graduate
degree in a relevant discipline, and substantive gallery or museum
leadership experience or a similar combination of education and expertise
will be needed to successfully carry out this interesting and complex
position.

With equity, diversity, and inclusion being core to SFU’s excellence as an
engaged university, SFU is committed to ensuring that no individual is
denied access to employment opportunities for reasons unrelated to ability
or qualifications.  SFU encourages applications from all qualified
individuals, including persons with disabilities, visible minorities,
women, Indigenous people, people of all sexual orientations and gender
identities, and others who may contribute to the diversification of the
university.


All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; Canadians and Permanent
Residents of Canada will be given priority.


For further information about this position, contact Hilary Meredith, HJ
Meredith Group. Compensation range: $95,904 to $114,526. To apply, please
send a letter of interest and resume, in one pdf attachment to:



Hilary Meredith

Hilary at meredithgroup.ca



SFU is one of Canada’s top 100 employers



Those at Simon Fraser University live and work on the unceded traditional
territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the  xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),
Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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