About the Role
The Chief People Officer (CPO) will be a key player on the leadership team, shaping a high-performing, inclusive, healthy, and resilient organization. This role provides strategic leadership for all aspects of the AGO’s people and culture agenda, enabling the museum's mission, vision, and values.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for all aspects of the AGO’s people and culture agenda.
- Oversee labour relations, talent management, organizational design, learning and development, performance management, employee engagement, equity and inclusion, reconciliation, workforce planning, compensation and benefits, health and wellness, HR systems, and organizational culture.
- Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the entire leadership team.
- Shape a high-performing, inclusive, healthy, and resilient organization through people strategies and systems.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience.
- Proven track record of success in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization.
- Passion for the AGO’s mission.
- Desire to make a positive impact across the organization’s 650 team members and hundreds of volunteers.
- Strategic vision, operational acumen, pragmatism, and emotional intelligence.
Skills
- Labour relations
- Talent management
- Organizational design
- Learning and development
- Performance management
- Employee engagement
- Equity and inclusion
- Reconciliation
- Workforce planning
- Compensation and benefits
- Health and wellness
- HR systems
- Organizational culture
Location
- Toronto, Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Benefits
- Compensation and benefits
About the Company
- The Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest art museums in North America, attracting some one million visitors annually.
- The AGO Collection of more than 120,000 works of art ranges from significant works by Indigenous and Canadian artists to contemporary art and European masterpieces.
- The AGO is expanding the museum’s presence in the international art world with the building of the exciting new Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery.
- The Art Gallery of Ontario operates on land that is the territory of the Anishinaabe (Mississauga) nation and is also the territory of the Wendat and Haudenosaunee.
- Toronto has always been a trading centre for First Nations.
Equal Opportunity
- The Art Gallery of Ontario is an equal opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce.
- Should you require accommodation at any time during this process, please advise Caldwell.
- All responses to Caldwell are confidential.
