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Vancouver, BC, CA

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

• Develops long and short-term plans to meet community needs for Recreation and Culture Services.
• Leads the development and updating of departmental strategic projects/action plans involving recreation, arts, and culture services.
• Assists with the development and updating of strategic projects/action plans from other internal departments involving recreation, arts, and culture services.
• Prioritizes and directs all Department activities to ensure alignment with the District’s Strategic Plan and master plans, and leads long-term financial planning.
• Participates and collaborates with leaders across the organization to ensure recreation, arts, and culture considerations are reflected in organizational strategy, inter-departmental collaboration, policy development.
• Leads the development and enhancement of standards, policies, and procedures to position the Recreation and Culture Department as a leader in providing recreation and cultural services and internal and external.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Responsible for Park Board directly operated services and facilities including Aquatics (9 indoor pools, 4 outdoor pools), Beaches (9), Arenas (8), Fitness Centres (15), and Outdoor Sport Facilities (150 sport fields, 126 diamonds, 189 courts). Responsibilities include oversight of service delivery and booking/space allocation for all portfolios. Provide.

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Providing leadership and support to the Abbotsford Host Society and the BC Seniors Games Society in delivering an exceptional 55+ BC Games for the 2500+ athletes, officials, and volunteers.
• Responsible for working with multiple City departments, external organizations, and managing the City’s Games budget and assets, including in-kind contributions totalling up to 500,000.
• Planning, promoting and measuring active living initiatives for Abbotsford’s residents as participants, spectators, and volunteers for the Games.
• Supporting community trust and credibility through ongoing, clear, accurate, open, and timelycommunication with organizations and stakeholders.
• Fostering strong relationships in the achievement of strategic objectives and community connection.
• Developing and maintaining productive relationships with non-profit community and provincial sports organizations, advisory boards, private facilities, neighbouring communities, and partner organizations.

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Promoted from Assistant Manager to Acting Manager after 6 months with the organization.
• Responsibilities included guiding major departmental operational decisions and projects, general oversight of 2 large multi-use recreation facilities (each including an Arena and Pool) serving a population of 150,000.
• Provided resilient leadership throughout the pandemic. Duties included interpreting and implementing provincial health orders, planning and executing internal and external communication, maintaining optimal staffing.
• Key contributor to strategic and Council initiatives including guiding leadership meetings, writing Council reports, contributing to portfolio-specific strategic plans, and overall implementation of the Parks.
• Lead departmental workforce planning including strategizing with HR on recruitment and retention, planning FTE needs, developing a departmental training plan, ensuring priority positions were filled, and supporting.
• Oversaw the departmental budget totalling over $11 million. Duties included ensuring staff adherence to budget plan, aggregating and planning capital requests, inputting budget projections, managing variance entries.

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Responsible for leading the coordination, development, and management of city-wide recreation portfolios including Community Recreation, Administration, and Arenas.
• Plan, direct, organize, and supervise the work of individual employees and work teams including 4 senior union supervisors. Duties include coaching and developing staff, addressing labour relations issues, supporting.
• Serve as a key member of the City’s Recreation leadership team, participating in both short and long-term planning. Duties include establishing work plans, working collaboratively on city-wide strategic projects.
• Support as a senior lead for day-to-day operations of the Abbotsford Recreation Centre
• Responsible for the management of portfolio area budgets. Duties include ensuring staff adherence to budget forecasts, aggregating and planning capital requests, inputting budget projections, and managing variance.
• Provide expertise on operations, standards and policies, procedures, operating budgets, equipment, strategic planning, and staff resources.

West Vancouver Community Centre

• Supervised a community centre programs team who oversaw Sports, Gymnastics, General Interest, Summer Camps, and Ice Arena portfolios. Supervision included working with 3 Program Coordinators who are responsible for the.
• Staff supervisory duties included ensuring team alignment and collaboration, tracking budget, addressing labour relations issues, advising and supporting day-to-day operations, conducting performance evaluations, and.
• Additionally responsible for guiding areas of general Facility Operations with duties that included ensuring safe and clean environments, identifying risk management concerns, and aligning site standards. Duties also.
• Responsible for ensuring staff adherence to multiple portfolio budgets totaling $1,500,000 in revenue. Duties included guidance in monitoring and projecting program area budgets, making budget recommendations, entering.
• Created and provided input for best practices of policies, procedures, safety guidelines and other departmental administrative documents. Also was responsible for writing key business documents such as departmental.
• Liaised with community partners, provided direction for special events and event rentals and conversed with the community at large to respond to elevated customer concerns and feedback.

South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre

• Delivered service that exceeded citizen expectations by supervising 15 Customer Service Assistants, 12 Building Cleaners, 4 Facility Attendants and 3 Administrative Clerks. Provided staff development, diverse.
• Coordinated maintenance of facility deficiencies and capital projects through planning and allocating appropriate resources.
• Oversaw operations of 3 large halls including approving rentals, managing relationships with user groups, contracting cleaners and facility maintenance.
• Responsible for adhering to, forecasting and reporting on facility operations budget totalling over $400,000.
• Constructed evaluation metrics such as statistical dashboards and key performance Indicators to monitor trends.
• Wrote reports including facility performance and budget reports, issue papers and grant requests for capital projects and performance reviews for new employees.

West Richmond Community Centre

• Contracted to redesign and coordinate the Summer Slam Basketball program.
• Developed marketing materials and a marketing plan to increase awareness of the program.
• Continued to strengthen relationships with community partners, sourced new sponsors and collaborated with local schools in order to increase program visibility.
• Improved efficiencies of staff, volunteer and financial resources.
• Actively recruited and trained volunteers to build social capital within the community.
• Increased program registration by 10% (620 participants).

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Planned, scheduled, implemented, evaluated and managed a varied range of programs and events including but not limited to provincial tournaments, multi-sport festivals, community engagement functions, leadership.
• Cultivated and maintained community relationships with over 20 diverse partners such as the NBA, First Nations Partners Council, Vancouver Parks Board, Surrey School District, YMCA, Special Olympics BC and the Canucks.
• Wrote and received major grant proposals totalling over $75,000 to increase sport participation amongst various demographics.
• Lead operations of the Steve Nash Youth Basketball affiliate programs (6000+ participants in 35 communities across BC). Administrative duties include policy creation/compliance monitoring, developing program plans.
• Developed and managed 14 program budgets (revenues and expenses) totalling over $200,000 per year and report on fiscal activity as required.
• Wrote 6-8 reports and deliver 2 presentations per year regarding program operations, developments, strengths and weaknesses.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Recreation And Health Education

The recreation and health education program is an interdisciplinary program that prepares you to enter the fields of recreation, wellness.

Professional Development Certification, Parks, Recreation And Leisure Studies

Through this certification, participants will enhance their understanding of issues facing the recreation and parks sector and will be.

Certificate, Civic Governance And Innovation

Designed for employees of municipal and regional governments in BC, the Civic Governance and Innovation (CGI) program uses case study.