JOBS… a snapshot
PURPOSE:
To understand key professional positions arising in the arts sector July 2021.
Digital Content Producer
Under the mentorship of Artistic Director Red Sky Performance, the Digital Content Producer will benefit from a coordinated strategic approach to digital content creation and dissemination and will bring proven and innovative approaches to digital content creation with a strong knowledge of social media platforms and engagement strategies to Red Sky Performance through which he/she helps to mobilize the next generation of Indigenous artists towards careers within Canadian Performing Arts companies.
The Digital Content Producer requires a deep commitment to and engagement with Red Sky’s artistic goals and company ethos, as well as a strong sense of responsibility and an excellent work ethic. The Digital Content Producer will assist Red Sky in moving forward to achieve its vision: To create inspiring experiences of contemporary Indigenous arts and culture by creating and managing the production and multimedia outputs across digital platforms, social media campaigns, apps and the company website.
Red Sky’s Digital Content Producer will learn and apply fundamental principles for engagement and generate innovative, relevant content and ideas that will attract audiences through distinctive multimedia content, integrated with social media and campaigns.
We are committed to nurturing the Digital Content Producer into a seasoned professional. The Digital Content Producer will gain a deeper and clearer understanding of the performance environment, with a particular understanding of the contemporary Indigenous arts perspective.
Digital Content Producers Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Produces multi-media content in alignment with Red Sky’s vision, values and goals and Develops content and ideas to deliver strong engagement results.
Creates and manages the production and multi-media outputs across digital platforms, social media campaigns, apps, and the company’s website and Promotes the company, programs and events across our websites, social media and apps.
Provides best-practice multi-media content to drive growth and engagement on our social media channels, drive traffic to our website, and drive app downloads and Brainstorms and pro-actively generates innovative, relevant content and ideas that will attract audiences through distinctive multimedia content, integrated with social media and campaigns.
Oversees shoots, video edits and photography to a high quality on a tight turn-around and Captures high-standard video and audio for the production of video packages.
Executes video production rollout for maximum impact and result and Stay
Knowledge Seekers, DigitalASO
In collaboration with Executive Leads and Knowledge Steward, Knowledge Seekers are tasked with identifying and developing community knowledge, relationships, and networks in service of scoping the design of a cross-sectoral, national Digital Arts Services Alliance / Alliance des services d’arts numériques.
In 2021, three Knowledge Seeker positions address the perspectives of the Maritimes-Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia), Québec, and Central Canada (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario).
Incubated by ArtsPond, the goals of DigitalASO / OSANumériques are to help foster a national innovation ecosystem for shared digital transformation of Canadian arts, culture, and arts services in response to collectively identified systemic issues. Featuring strategic alliance-, literacy-, and platform-building actions with regional and national stakeholders onsite and online, this transformative cooperative governance effort seeks to identify and strengthen regional advantages, national champions, cross-disciplinary institutions, shared digital resources and human-cloud infrastructure to help collectively bolster digital justice for all in Canadian arts and culture.
In 2021, DigitalASO’s planned activities rooted in human-centered design include the cooperative publication of a digital transformation manifesto, co-design of an open source ecosystem mapping and matchmaking digital tool, and the scoping of a national alliance to help sustain access and inclusion for equity-seeking groups from the arts, cultural, and creative industries in the digital world.
Guiding values
Strengthen ecology: Help strengthen regional and national ecosystems with humility and a generous spirit of reciprocity
Sustain culture: Sustain an internal and external culture that respects wholeness and the multi-dimensionality of difference, including beliefs, values, needs, and experience
Enable equity: Enable access and inclusion by fostering trust through open and honest dialogues led by impacted equity-seeking groups.
UI/UX Design Associate
DigitalASO / OSANumériques is an integral part of ArtsPond’s digital innovation knowledge management and platform-building team. In collaboration with Executive Leads and a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and developers, UI/UX Design Associate is tasked with developing UI/UX design solutions and engaging in related design research activities for DigitalASO’s Ecosystems Map.
Incubated by ArtsPond, the goals of DigitalASO / OSANumériques are to help foster a national innovation ecosystem for shared digital transformation of Canadian arts, culture, and arts services in response to collectively identified systemic issues. Featuring strategic alliance-, literacy-, and platform-building actions with regional and national stakeholders onsite and online, this transformative cooperative governance effort seeks to identify and strengthen regional advantages, national champions, cross-disciplinary institutions, shared digital resources and human-cloud infrastructure to help collectively bolster digital justice for all in Canadian arts and culture.
DigitalASO’s planned activities in 2021 include the cooperative publication of a digital transformation manifesto, co-design of an open source ecosystem mapping and matchmaking digital tool, and the scoping of a national alliance to help sustain access and inclusion for equity-seeking groups from the arts, cultural, and creative industries in the digital world.
Design of the Ecosystems Map will apply an iterative process rooted in the values of critical access. Our vision is for it to become an inclusive suite of interactive digital tools including visual cartography of non-geographic (i.e., conceptual, emotional) and geo-located digital transformation stories, networks, needs, resources, and initiatives. A recommender engine will also facilitate matchmaking between impacted groups for solutions in real and digital communities. These will help identify pathways to a more accessible post-pandemic digital future in Canadian arts and culture.
Guiding values:
Strengthen Ecology: Strengthen humility and trust in regional and national ecosystems via open and honest collaborative dialogues led-by impacted equity-seeking groupsSeed Action
Seed Action: Cultivate a culture of co-creation and positive collective action by using human-centered approaches rooted in a spirit of generous reciprocity, respect, and mutual care
Enable Equity: Boost access and inclusion for equity-seeking groups by celebrating and enabling the multi-dimensionality of difference, including beliefs, values, needs, and experience
