Leadership
Ngā Toi Creative Hawke's Bay provides leadership support for the creative sector
Maintaining the integrity and agility of the Toi-tū strategic framework rests with a collective of stakeholders. This includes individuals and organisations practicing or involved in the arts, culture and creative sectors. The work is led by Ngā Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay as the backbone organisation.
Leadership - Toitu
Ngā Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay plays a critical leadership role by facilitating, coordinating, and supporting the collaborative efforts of stakeholders involved in this collective initiative across the region. By providing essential infrastructure, Ngā Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay helps to ensure everyone is working together effectively for a thriving and vibrant arts, culture, and creative sector.
Ngā Toi’s role and responsibilities include:
Facilitating a collaborative process to bring together stakeholders, support communication, and coordinate activities to ensure everyone is working towards common goals;
Coordinating collective efforts of stakeholders involved in the Toi-tū strategic framework, including evolving a shared vision, establishing a robust governance structure, and ensuring stakeholders are working together effectively;
Collecting and analysing data including gathering baseline data, tracking progress towards desired outcomes, and evaluating the effectiveness of Toi-tū strategic framework initiatives;
Mobilising resources including identifying funding sources, developing partnerships with other organisations, and leveraging existing resources to support collaborative effort; and,
Communicating and advocating on behalf of the sector to stakeholders, funders, and the community. This includes developing and supporting communication plans, coordinating public relations, and advocating for the importance of the Toi-tū strategic framework and associated initiatives.
Work done by Ngā Toi, including wānanga with sector:
- Twelve one-on-one interviews that laid out foundational sector understanding.
- Eight wānanga that identified current capabilities and aspirations of the sector 127 respondents to a survey that prioritised areas of need and interest.
- The overall outcome: Built high-level design of capability development programme.
