Future Focus Consultant

Summary

The Future Focus Program is a joint initiative between three funders who support the arts in Alberta: the Rozsa Foundation, Calgary Arts Development, and the Calgary Foundation. The program provides arts organizations with the opportunity to explore a key question or challenge facing their organization and develop directions for their operations that diverge from previous or current practice in response. Organizations may be asking themselves questions about their organizational purpose, their role in the arts sector, their continued viability, or how they need to adapt their structure or approach to operate into the future. The program supports organizations through the process of investigating, identifying, planning, and executing significant and strategic adaptations in their operations.

When planning their projects, organizations are expected to consider how Reconciliation, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA) are integrated into all aspects of their operations.

About the Role
The Future Focus Consultant (the Consultant) will be a first point of contact to arts organizations seeking to develop strategic solutions to their operational challenges. Drawing from their knowledge and experience of the arts sector and organizational change processes, they will discuss critical operational questions and challenges facing the arts organization and will ideate strategies and next steps that will support the organization on their journey. These next steps could include further conversations with the Consultant to further explore their challenges, as well as referrals to other systems of support, including the funding available through the Future Focus Program, though the Consultant is not responsible for working on the funding application itself.
The Consultant is also responsible for organizing gatherings for the arts community to share the learnings stemming from the Future Focus program.