Manager/ Rural Sites Nova Scotia Museum

Competition # :43066

Department: Communities, Culture, Tourism & Heritage

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date:24-Jun-24 ( Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage contributes to building a province which enhances pride in our creative and diverse communities and people, allowing us to embrace our past and influence our future. Our vision is for Nova Scotia to be an acknowledged leader as a place where cultural identity, expression, and economy prosper. A place where all people honour and embrace diversity and heritage.

The Nova Scotia Museum, consisting of 28 museum sites, is the most decentralized museum in Canada. It is also one of the oldest provincial museums in the country. The Nova Scotia Museum is responsible for the provincial collection of over one million artifacts and specimens housed at museum sites and storage facilities across the province.

About Our Opportunity

The Manager of the Rural Sites oversees operations at the 25 rural sites of the Nova Scotia Museum. This includes directly supervising staff at the 8 Directly-Managed Nova Scotia Museum sites (Balmoral Grist Mill, Sutherland Steam Mill, Lawrence House Museum, Fisherman’s Life Museum, Clifton Museum Park, Shand House Museum, Prescott House Museum and Uniacke Estate Museum Park) and oversight of HR and financial management. Additionally, the Manager of Rural Sites is responsible for setting operational standards for the 17 locally-managed rural Nova Scotia Museum sites and acting as a liaison between local management staff and boards and the Nova Scotia Museum.

The Manager assumes a lead role in enhancing all aspects of museum operations, including visitor services, interpretation, collections and infrastructure. The Manager works in collaboration with Archives, Museums and Libraries staff to ensure the rural museums’ goals align with those of the broader department, and to ensure that the museums represent the broader Nova Scotia Museum mandate.

The Manager works collaboratively across the Nova Scotia Museum system, Archives, Museum and Libraries and the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage, as well as across government and with various stakeholders and sectors to build collaborative relationships and innovate.

The Manager of Rural Sites reports to the Director, Nova Scotia Museum

Primary Accountabilities

• Accountable for strategic and operational leadership through direction, planning, evaluation, and implementation requiring experience with and knowledge of legislation, regulations, policies, and programs to support museum, departmental and government priorities.
• Accountable for managing the financial and human resources of the directly-managed rural sites, including development and management of budgets for directly-managed rural sites.
• Ensures proper protocols regarding procurement and financial expenditures are adhered to.
• Oversees team of rural site managers, developing work plans, project strategies and procedures to ensure priorities are met and operational activities align with broader museum and departmental goals
• Provides Ministerial briefings, handles media enquiries, develops speaking notes and provides direction to executive leadership
• Ensuring mechanisms are in place for supervisors and managers to monitor and report operational issues on policies, planning and solutions for identified issues.
• Reviews programs and implements plans for efficiencies and innovation. Ensures new initiatives meet policies and standards
• Works with stakeholders to ensure best practice and museum standards are met, and to encourage site development.
• Leads the Rural Site Ops team
• Works with contractors and the Manager of Site Maintenance staff to ensure infrastructure projects are completed and meet operational needs.
• Promotes diversity and a healthy workplace, ensure respectful workplace standards are met.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role you have a University degree in a relevant discipline combined with 7 years of related work experience. You also have knowledge and experience in museum management best practices and the demonstrated ability to clearly communicate museum-related issues to diverse audiences, this should be clearly demonstrated in your cover letter and resume.

Political and museum acumen is required.

You have strong interpersonal skills, and the demonstrated ability to supervise and motivate a large team of specialists,while valuing a diverse, and inclusive work environment. You demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills and have a proven ability to be innovative, lead and execute,addressing issues and demands with diplomacy and tact. You havetime management skills to successfully develop and manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines. You can develop and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and have demonstrated skills in maintaining these relationships on interpretation and building maintenance projects.

You have demonstrated organizational leadership experience, including experience in human resource and financial management, and business planning and strategic development.

Success in this role includes being innovative and having a broad way of thinking, while staying current with respect to broader impacts (current events, legislative changes and national trends) and is diligent on how opinions and perspectives effect stakeholders and partners regarding collection issues.

Assets

Assets considered for this position:

• Project management experience
• Experience in the broader heritage sector
• Experience leading in the not-for-profit sector

LEADS

The Government of Nova Scotia has adopted the LEADS Leadership Framework. During the interview, candidates will be expected to express how they have demonstrated the key behaviours and capabilities required to effectively lead in a caring and inclusive environment. LEADS Domains includes Leads Self,Engage Others, Achieve Results, Develop Coalitions and Systems Transformation.

Please follow LEADS (novascotia.ca) for more information.

We will assess the above qualifications and capabilities using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

Equivalency

Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

Based on the employment status and union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan , Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees .

Additional Information

This individual will have to travel throughout the province of Nova Scotia and will be required to have a valid drivers license.

What We Offer

• Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
• Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
• Countless career paths
• Department specific flexible working schedules

Pay Grade: EC 12

Salary Range: $3,351.92- $4,608.93Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Womenin occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:

Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.

External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concernsmay be directed to .