Tim Walker Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In a newly created role, responsibilities include the oversight of Camps, School Visits and Educational Partnership programs.For the Camps portfolio, this includes the full cycle for planning, administration, budgeting, recruitment, training, delivery and evaluation for a 9 week summer camp program. In this role, I provided leadership for a team of up to 140 seasonal staff delivering experiences for more than 700 campers a week while delivering against a multi-million dollar revenue target to contribute positively back to the organization.For the School Visits team, this includes supporting the full cycle of planning, marketing and promotion, budgeting and delivery of our curriculum-focused, inquiry-based, experiential learning program that welcomes 26000 students (or 1200 classes) during the course of the school yearIn the Educational Partnership stream, I supported interested community groups, performing arts companies and more to develop collaborative learning partnerships connected to their exhibition, performance and/or onsite festival. These partnerships provided unique, experiential learning opportunities for visiting school or children/youth groups to provide unique opportunities only possible through co-development. This included my role as the Harbourfront Centre program lead for the annual Forest of Reading Festival, presented by the Ontario Library Association. This three day festival sees over 7000 students on campus to celebrate all things reading!In addition to my job duties, I was also the inaugural chair of the Harbourfront Centre Social Committee (2014-2024), acted as the inaugural internal lead for our IDEA+ Committee (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism 'Plus' Committee - 2022-2024) and was the Committee Chair of the How We Work Together Process Mapping Committee (2018-19), which spent 18 months assessing internal practices to improve outcomes for our Programming, Marketing and Development teams.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

School Visits is a hands-on, curriculum-focused, experiential learning program that uses the inquiry-based methodology to encourage students of all ages to build connections to contemporary arts and culture. We deliver programming to 26 000 students (or 1200 classes) each school year in Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Urban Studies. Connections to the Ontario Curriculum permeate our program design and delivery, as well as a commitment to fostering an inclusive classroom that allows all students to feel safe and supported in their creative risk-taking.As the Manager, School Visits, I oversee a team of four full time staff, 20-35 part time staff, as well as volunteers, interns and co-op students. I am responsible for staff recruitment, training and ongoing professional development, as well as all aspects of program development, delivery and evaluation. I work collaboratively with our Marketing and Creative Services and Digital Transformation teams to ensure outreach, awareness and promotion of the School Visits program remains top of mind for teachers looking for high quality field trip opportunities in the arts. In addition, I worked with our Finance and Development teams to ensure our programs are delivered not only on budget, but with a critical lens to the level of support we can offer to meet the diverse needs of our students.Whenever possible, we work with internal and external programming teams to develop programming that responds to exhibitions, performances and installations in and around our campus.As we continue to respond to the needs of teachers and students through the COVID-19 pandemic, a new program stream of digital offerings, including synchronous and asynchronous programming, has ensured we remain a valuable resource for Ontario classrooms.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As an Education Officer, I was one of two full time teachers in our School Visits team. In this role, I was responsible for daily teaching in all program offerings, as well as the development and review of existing programs in the Urban Studies, Performing Arts and Media Studies streams. I supported the Manager, School Visits in recruitment and training within my portfolio, as well as worked closely with volunteers, co-op students and interns to meet program and academic targets.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As an Educator, I was responsible for daily set up, execution and clean up of Visual Arts, Urban Studies and Media Studies programs. This included delivering programming to a range of visiting students and school groups (from ages 3-21). I was responsible for all aspects of program delivery, including preparation of samples or exemplars, classroom management and curriculum awareness. I responded to the needs of diverse students attending our programming by adjusting the pace, expectations, teaching strategies and format of instruction to ensure all students were able to feel successful in my classroom

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joined the School of Communication, Media, Art and Design as a part time faculty member in the Arts Education and Community Engagement Post-Graduate Program. Co-teaching Careers in Arts Education and Community Engagement 1 and Funding and International Policy in Fall 2021 and Careers 2 in Winter 2022

Master’S Degree, Education

Bachelor Of Education (Bed), Intermediate/Senior, History And Geography

Bachelor Of Arts Honours (Hba), Geography And Sociology