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Executive Director/General Manager
Non-profit Organization in the Music Industry
Toronto

Position

• Reports to the Board of Directors.
  
• New position.

Organization

• Founded in 1999, the organization is a non-profit agency charged with collecting and distributing private copying royalties.
  
• The organization is an umbrella collecting body that represents organizations consisting of authors, composers, recording artists, music publishers and makers of sound recordings. These are groups on whose behalf the royalties are collected.
  
• More than $28 million in royalties was available for distribution to eligible rights holders for 2000 and 2001. The organization oversees the distribution process so that the funds can be fairly distributed to the tens of thousands of eligible rights holders by its member collectives.
  
• The organization has a mandate from its members to prepare and file with the Copyright Board tariffs covering the private copying rights of eligible right holders and to defend those tariffs before the Copyright Board, an economic administrative tribunal.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day administrative functions in the hearings and filing of tariffs, lobbying, press releases, collections, enforcement, audit and distribution of royalties along with the Zero Rating function, and running this operation in the most cost-effective and efficient way as possible.
  
• Develop and implement strategies and programs that maximize the objectives of the organization.
  
• Manage all financial aspects of the organization.
  
• Manage all human and physical resources.
  
• Supervise the distribution of funds to member collectives, collection and enforcement activities, and the development and administration of the Zero-Rating Program.
  
• Develop and implement communications strategies.
  
• Review and monitor strategies for the filing and defence of tariffs before the Copyright Board.
  
• Ensure effective day-to-day operations of the organization.
  
• Develop and sustain successful relationships with the Board of Directors, government and industry stakeholders.
  
• Be expected to address any other duties that may be assigned by the Board of Directors.
  
• Very little to no travel.

Profile:

• Preferably an undergraduate degree in business and/or administration, coupled with an accounting designation (ie. knowledge of transactions, collections, negotiations, budgeting, etc.).
  
• Service-oriented in day-to-day operations - excellent at execution and delivery.
  
• Roll-up-your-sleeves manager and "quick study".
  
• Conversant in new information technologies and a comfort level working in an electronic environment.
  
• Proven management and relationship-building skills.
  
• Strategic leader and persuasive communicator with solid media skills.
  
• Creative thinker.
  
• Ideally with experience in the Canadian copyright industries.
  
• Demonstrated an understanding of the Canadian music industry.
  
• Bilingual, an asset.
  
• Credibility within the marketplace.

 For more information, contact Lyn Johnson at lj@r2lj.com