TQFF is hiring new Board Members!
Deadline: Sunday, June 15
Do you work in film, new media, and the arts?
Do you want to see more collaborative and community-focused arts organizations?
Do you want to help the arts sector to continue to serve its more vulnerable and marginalized audiences?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Toronto Queer Film Festival needs you!
TQFF is looking for new board members to help fulfill our mission of serving the diversity of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. TQFF began as a grassroots film festival in 2016 and has committed to programming politically unapologetic and radical new media while also serving as a stepping stone for emerging, low-income, and DIY filmmakers who want their work to find the audiences it serves. We are currently undertaking a strategic planning process in order to help us rebuild our revenue streams, digital footprint, and to solidify our role in local and global queer film ecologies.
What we’re looking for:
- Experienced board members with expertise or knowledge of financial reporting and oversight
- Artists who work in new media, film, or associated practices who want to help grow a small organization’s capacity and membership.
- Experienced arts professionals who can give around 5-7 hours a month helping our core staff develop our 3-year strategic plan.
- Communications and Fundraising professionals who can lend their expertise in redefining our communication and fundraising priorities.
- Artists, arts workers, and/or academics working at the intersections of crip, queer, and decolonial practice with experience in non profit leadership or community organizing.
Positions Available
- Chair **three month onboarding process
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- 2-3 members at large
Our Standing Committees
- Marketing and Community Outreach
- Programming and Membership
- Financial and Organizational Sustainability
Board Responsibilities
- Serving a two year term. The first term will begin July 1, 2025.
- Average workload in the first year will be 6-10 hours for the first six months including strategic planning meetings and an AGM. Thereafter the service load will return to 1-4 hours a month.
- Attending quarterly meetings to review organizational financial health, strategic plan process, and community responsibilities.
- Committees will meet bi-monthly with the chair.
- Liaising with director of Policy and Executive Director over email to convene working groups and consult on outreach strategy
Please send a letter of interest (no longer than a page) and your CV by Sunday, June 15 to: kaitlin [at] torontoqueerfilmfest.com