President and Chief Executive Officer

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The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation (ROM Governors) seeks an
experienced, collaborative, and results-oriented President and
Chief Executive Officer (President & CEO). ROM Governors serves
as a critical partner and pivotal strategic resource to the Royal
Ontario Museum (ROM or the Museum), committed to supporting the
long-term financial health of one of North America’s most
prestigious and comprehensive cultural organizations and Canada’s
largest cultural institution. The President & CEO will join ROM
Governors at a transformative moment as it embarks on the most
definitive capital campaign in its organizational history and the
largest for a cultural institution in Canada.

Reporting to the Chair of the Board of Governors (the
Foundation’s governing board) and working in close partnership with
the ROM Director & CEO, the President & CEO of ROM
Governors is responsible for raising, managing, and distributing
funds raised in support of the Museum’s highest priorities and
fostering long-term sustainable relationships of exceptional value
to the institution and its donors. The President & CEO will
play a critical role in leading the campaign strategy and
overseeing a talented and dedicated development team to initiate,
steward, and deepen prospective and current donors’ and funders’
commitments to the Museum. This person will work collaboratively
with the ROM Director & CEO and ROM senior executive team to
ensure the success of all philanthropic, sponsorship, and
investment activities. As the senior staff person of the
Foundation, the President & CEO will represent ROM Governors to
various stakeholder communities and will personally cultivate and
steward leadership donors, sponsors, and volunteers. The successful
candidate will have a demonstrated track record of results,
converting vision to action, cultivating government, corporate,
community, and philanthropic donor relationships, successfully
pacing large and ambitious capital campaigns, collaborating with
boards, and managing high-performing teams in a mission-based
culture.

ROM Governors has retained Isaacson, Miller, an international
executive search firm, to assist in this recruitment. Screening of
complete applications will begin immediately and will continue
until the completion of the search process. Inquiries, nominations,
and resumes with letters of interest should be sent via the
Isaacson, Miller
website for the search.

The expected salary for this role is $380,000 – $420,000
CAD.

Sarah James, Rebecca Swartz, Hannah Moore, Harley Bartles

Isaacson, Miller

At ROM, we consider equity, diversity, and inclusivity
foundational to our institutional success. We seek to foster a
workplace that reflects the full breadth of the communities we
serve and welcome applications from women, racialized
persons/BIPOC, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America,
2SLGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.

ROM acknowledges that this museum sits on the ancestral
lands of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the
Anishinaabek Nation, which includes the Mississaugas of the Credit
First Nation, since time immemorial to today.