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Operations Director

Organization Name: 
CKDU-FM
Location: 
Halifax, NS
Description: 

CKDU 88.1 FM is a non-profit campus and community radio station based at Dalhousie University, serving listeners throughout Halifax. Our mandate is to provide an alternative to private and public broadcasters and serve as a forum for diverse and underrepresented voices and artists. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is run by roughly 100 volunteers, a board of directors, and staff members.

Dalhousie University and CKDU 88.1 FM is located on unceded Mi’kmaq Territory. We recognize the colonial impacts that rest within university spaces and hiring processes, and we are committed to work and address them. We welcome feedback as we do so. We are all treaty people.

CKDU 88.1 FM is looking for an Operations Director to oversee administrative, strategic, and financial duties as it pertains to the station. The Operations Director works as part of a non-hierarchical staff collective to support programmers and volunteers at the station and to fulfill CKDU’s mandate.

This is a certified unionized position with SEIU Local 2.

Qualifications: 

General and Administrative Duties:
→ Act as the main liaison between the CKDU Board of Directors and the rest of the staff collective; sit on the CKDU Board of Directors as a non-voting member and attend monthly meetings
→ Participate and/or facilitate in staff collective meetings using consensus-based decision making
→ Maintain documents required by regulatory, licensing, and monitoring bodies including (but not limited to) SOCAN, the CRTC, Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stocks, Industry Canada, Workers Compensation, and other government or licensing departments
→ Ensure CKDU meets Dalhousie Student Union and King’s Student Union standards for Societies
→ In conjunction of the Board Chair, assist in the planning and execution of the Annual General Meeting
→ Respond to any and all queries and requests regarding station operations in a timely manner

Financial Duties:
→ Oversee pursuit of funding opportunities through relevant grants, government subsidies, advertising, fundraising, and donation structures
→ Prepare the annual financial plan before the start of the station’s fiscal year
→ Manage day-to-day cash flow, bill payments, cheque requisitions, and deposits in conjunction with our bookkeeper; track grant or project-specific spending and budgets;
→ Maintain all receipts and records for daily transactions; monitor all bank deposits and payments in conjunction with our bookkeeper
→ Provide all payments, honorariums, and stipends to ancillary positions and freelancers in conjunction with our bookkeeper
→ Coordinate and plan CKDU's annual fundraising event (Sustainer Drive) working in conjunction with Staff, Board, and volunteers
→ Track and evaluate fundraising revenues and expenses to ensure that our Sustainer Drive is meeting the station’s objectives
→ Prepare receipts and invoices when required

Human Resources:
→ Coordinate relevant employment paperwork for new and current employees, both permanent and temporary, in conjunction with Board Human Resources Officer
→ Conduct additional administration as needed, such as striking Hiring Committees, in conjunction with Board Human Resources Officer
→ Periodically serve on hiring committees as a staff representative (shared duty among staff collective)
→ In conjunction with staff collective, identify opportunities to delegate duties to volunteers and/or committees as well as draft volunteer job descriptions

Strategic Planning and Visioning:
→ With support from staff collective, oversee, plan, and manage CKDU membership and community communications (including but not limited to an e-newsletter, website posts, community promotions, and social media management)
→ Act as liaison to the Dalhousie Student Union, King’s Students Union, governmental agencies and the community
→ Maintain excellent relationships with community partners, organizations, and local businesses
→ Complete annual strategic plan in conjunction with staff collective and Board of Directors

REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS:
→ Ability or demonstrable experience working with volunteers and/or volunteer boards
→ Ability or demonstrable experience in financial management and administration
→ Strong written and verbal communication skills
→ Strong organizational and leadership skills
→ Experience with consensus-building
→ Effective interpersonal relationship skill
→ Must be self-motivated and willing to take initiative on projects

ASSETS:
→ Familiarity and/or experience of campus/community radio, including CKDU's mandate and programming
→ Experience in the creative non-profit sector in Canada
→ Experience with grant-writing and donor-funded community organizations
→ Experience or skills in grassroots fundraising
→ Experience with or training in consensus decision-making and/or non-hierarchical structures.

CKDU works with a wide range of community members. We expect all staff to uphold our
commitment to welcoming each member into our station and supporting their needs and voice.
This includes (but is not limited to) support for racialized, Indigenous, newcomer, trans,
non-binary, and incarcerated programmers as well as programmers with access needs related
to physical and mental health.

Salary: 

Salary: $31,033.60 for 32 hours a week. Administered through Dalhousie University. Paid monthly.
Health and Dental Plan available through Dalhousie University. Six weeks paid vacation. Flexibility in working hours, some remote work possible. Eligible to receive professional development funding.

LOCATION:
The selected candidate must be based or willing to relocate to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

TERMS:
Contract, with possibility of yearly renewal.

TO APPLY:
Please send your resume and cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and ideas for the role to hiring@ckdu.ca by Friday August 7, 2021 at 11:59PM ADT. We will not accept applications sent via mail or submitted through Facebook.

Our hiring process typically follows these steps:
→ Application review: the hiring committee will review all applications and contact candidates who fulfill the skills and experience outlined in the job description.
→ Interview: If you are selected for an interview, we will call you to set up a time. The interview will be over Zoom.
→ Take-home component: After the interview, we’ll ask you to complete a take-home assignment. We’ll evaluate your assignment to see if your ideas match with our own plan.
→ Reference check: If it all goes well, we’ll ask you for a reference or two, and then we’ll ask a few questions.
→ Offer: After that, if it works out, we’ll call you and give you an offer to work with us!

EQUITY:
CKDU strives to be an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from minority and under-represented groups. CKDU recognizes that access to jobs such as this is often limited for people from marginalized communities. We also acknowledge that lived experience can be as valuable as formal training, but harder to display in a job application. We encourage applicants to describe the unique contributions they, as individuals with diverse experiences, would bring to CKDU in their cover letter or resume. Please help circulate this job posting.

CKDU STAFF COLLECTIVE STRUCTURE:
CKDU Staff strives to operate as a collective structure, meaning that all decisions by staff are made through consensus-based decision-making at weekly staff meetings. All staff members are expected to contribute in whatever way they can to larger station-wide activities, most notably the funding drive. Staff members are accountable to each other, our volunteers, and our board of directors.

QUESTIONS?
Please direct them to hiring@ckdu.ca attn: Francella Fiallos and/or Jessica MacIsaac. We will also be holding an Open House session over Zoom on July 29th 2021 where we can go over the job posting and answer any questions.

Closing Date: 
Mon, 2021-08-09
Website: 
https://ckdu.ca/explore/read/135