Date: Jun 25, 2024
TELUS Local Content seeking locally-engaged community members in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver who are passionate about locally-reflective storytelling on screen to serve on the Community Advisory Boards from Fall 2024-2026.
The Community Advisory Boards are a program within TELUS Local Content (STORYHIVE and TELUS originals) where locally-engaged community members consult with our team on an ongoing basis, informing and enriching the foundation of our program development and content funding strategy. Providing feedback, insights and amplification through their unique lenses of professional expertise, lived experience, and deep community knowledge, our board members engage in critical support and create long-term impact on the future of TELUS Local Content. Our work with our Community Advisory Boards holds us accountable to our mission of furthering accessibility, inclusivity, and authentic representation in Locally-Reflective storytelling on screen.
We are now seeking expressions of interest from new prospective board members, to begin their term in Fall 2024.
In this program, our boards are made up of community members in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton who:
- Provide locally-informed feedback, insights and consultation on: Opportunities available within TELUS Local Content program offerings; Types of content and stories we are funding and producing across TELUS originals, STORYHIVE & Community Programs;
Promotion, Outreach and viewership strategies for our programs and content - Consult on questions and topics about authentic representation, accessibility, inclusivity, and locally-reflective themes
- Engage as passionate ambassadors for locally-made and reflective storytelling, leveraging their unique personal and professional networks to encourage applications and viewership to TELUS Local Content programs, content and events
Our first Community Advisory Boards began in August 2022 and over two years of feedback, conversation and community insights, we have received an incredible amount of feedback and takeaways related to our programs and content strategies that have made impacts across our programs. We are grateful for this opportunity and look forward to continued engagement with new and returning board members.
An honorarium will be provided to each board member in recognition of your time and expertise.
How to learn more & join the Community Advisory Boards:
For more information about the program, here is a document with more details that can be viewed by anyone: docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0J-TdOhvQPGvuzd20yBqTf42BJIJqMCEOyYnj7OaMw/edit?usp=sharing
If joining this program is of interest to you, please complete our Expression of Interest form at your earliest opportunity: https://forms.gle/XLwR7hZYfrMhCLoH7
Once we have received your completed form, our team will be in touch with the shortlisted candidates to book a short virtual meeting so we can discuss this opportunity further.
Inclusion at TELUS Local Content is about creating an environment of involvement, respect and connection, where a diversity of ideas, voices and perspectives is expressed and listened to. At Local Content, we create meaningful connections with people of diverse backgrounds to share power and responsibility. We design our community and our work for inclusion. Our Local Content team holds itself accountable for inclusive behaviors and seeks diverse perspectives. We are respectful of people with different cultural practices, attitudes and beliefs, and actively listen to them. For more information, please visit our Community Code of Conduct.
We seek meaningful collaboration with all communities, including with Community Advisory Boards, and aim to reflect the diversity of the communities that they represent and support.
We encourage interest from community members of all identities, including race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, or any other. Please advise us of your access needs within the Expression of Interest form.
About TELUS Local Content
Our core mission on the Local Content team is to create a space free of barriers, where all communities in B.C. and Alberta have access to create, exhibit, and discover stories that truly resonate with them. Every individual and community has a unique story worth sharing.
We provide access to the Canadian broadcasting system for those stories to be told authentically, supported, shared, and celebrated. Since 2013, through our two programs, TELUS STORYHIVE and TELUS originals, we have stewarded over $84 Million of production funding back into communities to help bring incredible local films and TV shows to life. On top of the production funding we have provided over 148,000 hours of training and mentorship, investing in the capacity building for the next generation of Canadian content creators.
This funding and training has resulted in over 3,900 hours of community content that has over 5.5 million views across our platforms.
TELUS Storyhive offers innovative progras dedicated to supporting and championing diverse emerging content creators across B.C. and Alberta.
Learn more: www.storyhive.com
Watch Storyhive films and series online: www.youtube.com/channel/UCR3uGP_koNLN7Oa91gJ1zjQ
TELUS originals support the production of compelling, locally reflective, social-purpose documentaries and documentary series that connect established, independent filmmakers in B.C. and Alberta from diverse identities and communities to local and global audiences.
Learn more: www.telus.com/en/localcontent/telusoriginals
Watch TELUS originals films and series online: watch.telusoriginals.com