Manager, Exhibitions and Collections

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.

We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minhrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

The Opportunity

Banff Centre is a post-secondary learning institution with a mission to bring artists, leaders, and communities together to create, collaborate, share, envision, learn and be inspired. In this context, Walter Phillips Gallery (“WPG”) at Banff Centre supports endeavors in contemporary art through exhibitions, programs including residencies and symposia organized via the Banff International Curatorial Institute, publications, community engagement and events. WPG also serves as the steward for Banff Centre’s permanent collection, including current public commissions, and oversee the installation and display of artworks across campus.

Reporting to the Director, Walter Phillips Gallery and Collections, the Manager,



Exhibitions and Collections is the administrative lead for exhibitions at WPG and other spaces on campus; and on WPG touring exhibitions; publications; and public art commissions or projects at Banff Centre. The position also oversees all aspects of collections management and administration for art works on loan for exhibitions and in Banff Centre’s permanent collection, working closely with the Coordinator, Exhibitions and Collections.

Roles and Responsibilities

Reporting to Director, WPG and Collections below are some key accountabilities:

- Support the Director in the strategic planning and delivery of exhibitions, commissions, special projects, and events, advising on logistics, scheduling, communications, and production, financial, and operational implications.
- Lead the development of WPG budgets in collaboration with the Director, including forecasting, resource allocation, and contingency planning, and responsible for budget tracking for the department.
- Prepare, issue and archive agreements for all WPG activities including exhibitions, special projects, events, commissions, and for the permanent collection, liaising with the Director, General Counsel, or Contract Services as appropriate.
- Oversee processing of necessary payments and invoices relating to WPG-related activities and operational expenses.




- Develop documents and coordinate logistics for touring exhibitions organized and circulated by WPG.
- Coordinate and oversee production, schedule, and permissions clearances where assigned for catalogues, exhibition guides, BICI publications and other exhibition related materials.
- Maintain schedules for WPG and related events; coordinate critical paths for all such activities and identify scheduling conflicts.
- Work closely with Lead Preparator and on-campus stakeholders to ensure cross-campus program needs are supported.

Collections Management Responsibilities

- Oversee collections management duties undertaken by the Coordinator, Exhibitions and Collections in the areas of: tracking locations for permanent collection in collections management software; organizing transport related to exhibitions as well as for incoming and outgoing works on loan from permanent collection; coordination with external institutions requesting to loan artworks from the permanent collection including drafting loan agreements; implementing all aspects of registration, insurance, customs, packing, inspection, ongoing monitoring and condition reporting of loaned artworks and permanent collection works in accordance with WPG protocol.
- In consultation with the Director, establish plan and operationalize digitization initiatives as they relate to media art preservation for permanent collection; and digitization of permanent collection.

Human Resource Management, Team Building and Interdivisional Cooperation

- Foster an internal culture that maintains the highest standards for customer service, excellence of staff, participant and guest experience, and fiscal, operational, and organizational integrity.
- Enable the staff to function as a high

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