Mentorship Program Manager - Business for the Arts

Business for the Arts is looking for a Mentorship Program Manager! Do you enjoy connecting with diverse individuals and cultivating relationships? Are you passionate about professional development and the arts? Have you managed or worked with volunteers before in a non-profit setting? Would you consider yourself a fast-paced, independent worker, as well as a collaborator?

The new Mentorship Program Manager will have the ability to keep several balls up in the air, find creative solutions to hurdles that arise, and leverage an entrepreneurial spirit as we grow our programming. We are looking for someone who is organized and can handle multiple demands of the mentorship program, excel in public relations and work well with both business and arts leaders. The ideal candidate will also have a good understanding, and ideally working knowledge, of board governance and how arts and culture organizations can effectively fundraise and partner with the business community.

About the Mentorship Program

The artsVest Ontario Mentorship Program links small and mid-sized arts organizations in Ontario with seasoned arts professionals from across Canada to help build capacity and strengthen the cultural sector! Volunteer mentors provide guidance and support to artsVest organizations in the fields of corporate sponsorship and board governance for the arts. Mentorship takes place in many forms: group, peer, one-on-one, and e-mentoring. The mentorship program was launched in 2014 and complements the original artsVest program by integrating this new coaching component. This wonderful program and learning opportunity reaches approximately 50 arts organizations, or ‘mentees’, and 20 mentors in Ontario each year.

Learn more here: www.businessforthearts.org/mentorship-program/

Who Are We?

Founded in 1974, Business for the Arts is Canada’s only national charitable organization of business members who support the arts. We work at a national level to communicate the value of investing in the arts and to address the concerns and interests of the arts and culture sector. Our programs, events, training and educational resources enable arts organizations to partner more effectively with business. Our goal is to develop the next generation of creative thinkers, innovators, influencers and leaders with the knowledge, skills and resolve to guide arts and culture organizations in their financial and artistic management. www.businessforthearts.org; www.artsvest.com Council for Business and the Arts

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Volunteer Management

• Managing a project load of 50-60 arts organizations as mentees and a project load of 20 volunteer mentors

• Coordinating the volunteers’ day-to-day activities, including screening, orientation, training, matching, support, supervision, recognition, and wrap/evaluation activities

• Managing the mentor recruitment, solicitation, and application process

• Maintaining and updating the database of prospective mentors for recruitment

• Undertaking tasks related to volunteer orientation, including organizing, scheduling, and delivering the mentor training sessions

• Communicating with mentors on a regular basis to answer their questions and concerns to cultivate positive relationships and return volunteers

Programming

• Updating all Mentorship Program materials, guidelines, volunteer packages

• Disseminating mentoring program schedule and timeline to program participants

• Scheduling, coordinating, and facilitating live mentoring sessions

• Maintaining and updating mentorship program management tools in collaboration with the National Program Director

• Monitoring mentor/mentee relationships by making monthly contact with participants

Outreach

• Publicizing and promoting the mentorship program through social media, arts and business networks

• Developing new relationships with organizations/companies that are potential sources of mentors

Evaluation

• Maintaining records of attendance, sign-in lists and outcomes for mentors and mentees

• Assisting with program development, tracking, and evaluation in collaboration with the National Program Director and Vice President

• Disseminating and analyzing pre-mentoring and post-mentoring surveys to participants

• Monitoring program progress through feedback session meetings as required

• Compiling monthly program activity data into an operational summary for the National Program Director Council for Business and the Arts

Down the road:

• From Year III onward, researching and setting up infrastructure to have technology in place for complete online software based e-mentoring program

• Managing the e-mentoring program, including monitoring the email activity and providing ongoing e-support