ASSOCIATE PRODUCER #RECONCILE THIS - INDIGENOUS THEATRE

Company Overview

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER #RECONCILE THIS - INDIGENOUS THEATRE
Competition number: J0824-0566
Department: Indigenous Theatre
Status: Part-Time, 12-month term
Hours: Flexible work week
Hourly salary: $31 / hour
Closing date: September 15, 2024
Anticipated start date: October 2024

Introducing the National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts. The
NAC presents, creates, produces, and co-produces performing arts programming in various streams—the
NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre, and Popular Music and
Variety—and nurtures the next generation of audiences and artists from across Canada.
Curious to learn more? We invite you to read our strategic plan for 2020-2023 in The Next Act.

Collaboration, innovation and community-led engagement are only some of the many initiatives the NAC
will leverage to help shape a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future for the performing arts in
Canada, one that embodies our slogan and loudly proclaims that Canada is our stage.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:
It is the National Arts Centre’s goal to be a more welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and diverse organization
for all Canadians. We believe that the basis of this inclusivity requires a socially and culturally diverse
workforce and, therefore, we actively seek to recruit candidates who identify as women, Indigenous, Black,
Persons of Colour (IBPoC), persons from 2SLGBTQ+ communities and persons with disabilities. We
encourage you to self-identify in the recruitment process.

Job Description

Key activities:
NAC Indigenous Theatre: Our stories are medicine. The Indigenous Theatre Department at the NAC
nurtures, develops and showcases Indigenous stories at the NAC and in communities all over Canada.
Our mission is to honour our storytellers and thereby aid in the retention, resurgence and resilience of the
multiple and diverse Indigenous cultures of this land.

#ReconcileThis:
A collaboration with Facebook (Meta), #ReconcileThis is a four-year initiative that will provide hundreds of
transformative Indigenous Voices with funding, production equipment, and training to share their stories,
history, and to celebrate culture online.

Creators’ work will range from artistic performances in dance, theatre, and music, to social media content
creation, podcast production and writing, all in a digital format. #ReconcileThis will also create four, oneyear
Associate Producer positions at NAC Indigenous Theatre, providing emerging Indigenous leaders the
opportunity to shape the national program. Indigenous Theatre will create a microsite to showcase selected
works and creations of Indigenous Voices. Selected creators will be welcomed to share content through
online platforms of their choice with the hashtag #ReconcileThis.

Position Description:
As a member of the Indigenous Theatre team, reporting directly to the Producer, the Associate Producer
(#ReconcileThis) will support a broad range of programming for the project #ReconcileThis. Active
participation in internal and external activities and committees, decision-making, and financial control of the
project budget are key elements of this position. The Associate Producer will oversee all elements of
#ReconcileThis including, but not limited to, outreach; artist negotiations; contracts; budget management;
coordination with other NAC teams as necessary (Marketing, Communications, Digital Engagement), and
a variety of external partners in the course of their work.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Works with the Artistic Director, the Managing Director, the Producer, the Associate Producer and the
Production department in planning, scheduling, and executing #ReconcileThis, including outreach;
artist negotiations; contracts writing; budget management; coordinating with other NAC teams as
necessary (Marketing, Communications, Digital Engagement)
• Works with Facebook (Meta) on all elements of artist training and coordinating equipment transfer for the project
• Works with colleagues at the NAC to implement and promote company-wide practices
• Ensures physically, emotionally and culturally safe spaces as part of a healthy and welcoming environment for all who work here, including visiting artists.

Required qualifications:
• Strong administrative and communication skills with superior attention to detail;
• Demonstrated experience producing (theatre, film, dance, or television);
• Proficient in budgetary preparation and management;
• Proficient in scheduling and contracting;
• Demonstrated knowledge of digital processes and communication;
• Strong project management skills (manage multiple priorities and conflicting agendas and schedules);
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written;
• Demonstrated experience working with and/or in First Nations, Métis and Inuit storytelling, performance, dance, theatre, music, and other forms of artistic expression that honour culturally specific knowledge, languages, territories and experiences;
• Ability and willingness to share Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and organizations to effect change, and understanding and respecting cultural protocols in undertaking this work is essential to this role;
• Facility in both official languages is an asset;
• Facility in an Indigenous language is an asset;
• Strong knowledge of social media is an asset.