The Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC) is currently seeking candidates for our board of directors who are passionate about its mandate and history and excited to offer leadership, insight and fundraising support as members of the Board of Directors. Board positions are for 3-year terms. As a skills-based board, we are seeking individuals with proven success in fundraising and media arts advocacy.
What is DARC?
DARC is a not-for-profit, intersectional feminist, artist-run media art centre that fosters the growth and development of artists through access to equipment, training, mentorship, and programming. Our mission is to support a diverse community of media artists empowered by technology, programming and the exchange of ideas.
DARC firmly commits to fostering diversity within our community and recruiting diverse members for the Board. We welcome those who would contribute to furthering this mission, including, but not limited to: women, visible and invisible minorities, First Nations and Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation or gender identity.
DARC Board of Directors – Role + Responsibilities
The Board of Directors is a skills-based board that provides strategic leadership and ensures effective governance of the organization by developing and overseeing the vision, mission, strategic direction, and values of DARC; ensuring the development of, and adherence to, policies that guide staff in organizational operations; fundraising and exercising fiduciary responsibility to ensure financial viability and sustainability.
The general duties and responsibilities of Board members, including officers, are to:
- Determine the organization’s vision, mission and mandate;
- Guide the organization to achieve its vision, mission and mandate;
- Represent the members and act as trustees in the public interest;
- Members must attend all board meetings. Board meetings are currently held every 2 months on the last Monday from 6 to 7:30 pm.
- Board members must read the material provided before each meeting (minutes, agenda, and any other pertinent documents) and pass on any items to be added to the agenda to the Secretary in a timely manner. Board members who miss three consecutive board meetings shall be deemed to have resigned from office;
- Board members are encouraged to sit on working groups when action items have been determined. This could include Governance, Fundraising Development, HR, Programming, and Executive, with further working groups created as needed;
- Additional training opportunities can exist around strategic planning, fundraising and diversity;
- Members are expected to attend or participate in at least four events a year;
- All members are required to prepare for and attend the Annual General Meeting;
- Review the executive director’s performance;
- Ensure effective organizational planning;
- Ensure adequate resources, participate in fundraising projects and other development initiatives;
- Collectively ensure effective planning and management of financial and other resources;
- Determine, monitor, and review the organization’s programs, policies and services;
- Enhance the organization’s public image;
- Engage in an assessment process of DARC’s own performance;
- Represent the organization publicly when required;
- Maintain confidentiality of financial and other sensitive organizational issues.
How to Apply
Board members are volunteers and therefore cannot be financially compensated for their work, exhibit or receive grants from DARC while serving their Board term.
If you’re interested in joining our Board, please send a letter of intent outlining your experience and interest in DARC, along with your CV, to board@digitalartsresourcecentre.ca, by April 30, 2024. Interested applicants who would like to learn more about the organization and/or time commitments are encouraged to reach out to board@digitalartsresourcecentre.ca.
