Job Description
Calgary Economic Development (CED) is an opportunity-maker, helping to spark and fuel Calgary’s growth. Our mandate is to position Calgary for long-term economic success through the expansion, retention, and attraction of companies, capital, and talent. We offer a wealth of information to help everyone succeed and tirelessly promote Calgary, in Canada and around the world. We are passionate about our role in shaping and sharing Calgary’s story, a place of blue sky thinking and unexpected opportunities.
Job Summary
The Calgary Film Commissioner is responsible for attracting and retaining screen-based production to the Calgary region. Acting as the lead business development manager for the Calgary Film Commission, the role promotes Calgary as the production location of choice to industry decision-makers while cultivating strategic partnerships that support production attraction, industry growth, and economic impact.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development
- Build and implement the strategy to identify, pursue, and develop production-attraction opportunities.
- Build and maintain relationships with producers, studios, streamers, production executives, and industry decision-makers.
- Promote Calgary’s competitive advantages through targeted business-development activities, market visits, and industry outreach.
- Develop and deliver presentations, proposals, pitch materials, and attraction-related information packages.
- Connect prospective productions with local industry resources, infrastructure, service providers, and stakeholders.
- Monitor industry trends, market activity, and competing jurisdictions to identify opportunities and risks.
- Grow and maintain an active pipeline of opportunities and prospective productions through HubSpot CRM and related systems.
- Collaborate with the Creative Industries team to ensure attraction opportunities transition effectively into Film Commission service delivery.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with government partners, industry organizations, post-secondary institutions and regional stakeholders on attraction and sector-development initiatives.
- Participate in industry conferences, festivals, trade events, networking activities, panels, and speaking engagements.
- Support strategic relationship development with rural municipalities in collaboration with the Creative Industries team.
- Act the primary spokesperson for Film Commission related media engagement.
- Support attraction-focused marketing initiatives and development of promotional materials.
- Promote Calgary’s production capabilities, infrastructure, talent base, and industry successes.
- Ensure a deep understanding of provincial incentives, while understanding the competitive incentive landscape
Strategic Planning
- Manage allocated business-development budgets and attraction-related expenditures.
- Contribute to funding opportunities, sponsorship initiatives, and attraction-related proposals.
- Track attraction performance metrics, pipeline activity, economic-impact indicators, and business-development outcomes.
- Maintain accurate opportunity information within CRM systems.
- Support reporting requirements for leadership, Board reporting, and funding partners.
- Evaluate attraction initiatives and provide recommendations regarding future investments and opportunities.
Let’s Talk About You
You’re a natural relationship builder and storyteller who thrives on connecting people, opportunities, and ideas. With a strong understanding of business development and a passion for the screen-based industry, you know how to open doors, build credibility, and create lasting partnerships. Whether you’re pitching to studio executives, engaging producers, presenting at industry events, or collaborating with government and community stakeholders, you bring confidence, professionalism, and a strategic mindset that inspires action. You’re energized by the challenge of attracting new business and can clearly articulate why Calgary is an exceptional place to create, produce, and invest.
You combine big-picture vision with strong execution skills. Highly organized and results-driven, you are comfortable managing a pipeline of opportunities, tracking performance metrics, and turning market intelligence into actionable strategies. You stay ahead of industry trends, understand the evolving production landscape, and can navigate complex stakeholder environments with ease. Most importantly, you are passionate about championing Calgary’s creative economy and are excited by the opportunity to play a leadership role in growing the region’s film and television sector while generating meaningful economic impact.
Education
Post-secondary education in Business, Marketing, Communications, Film Studies, Commerce, Economic Development, International Relations, or a related field is preferred.
Experience
Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in film, television, business development, production, investment attraction, destination marketing, or related industries.
Assets
- Existing industry relationships.
- Experience working with government and economic-development organizations.
- Understanding of municipal, provincial, national, and international production environments.
- Experience representing jurisdictions or industry sectors
Key Skills And Competencies
- Business-development and investment-attraction expertise.
- Strategic Relationship-management and stakeholder-engagement skills.
- Public speaking and presentation skills.
- Understanding of screen-based production industries.
- Strategic thinking and opportunity development.
- CRM and pipeline management.
- Market intelligence and industry analysis.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to negotiate and influence.
- Leadership experience
Note: An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
What's In It For You
CED offers more than a competitive base salary to our employees. We have a comprehensive benefit plan that includes 100% employer paid benefit premiums, RRSP’s, a health care spending account, and a generous vacation and flex time policy. We are committed to our employee’s mental health and offer resilience training with Headversity, free counselling with an EAP program, in addition to paramedical coverage through our medical benefits plan.
CED encourages and supports life-long learning and professional development. Employees are encouraged to access up to $2500 per year of funded professional development training opportunities. If you are looking for purpose driven work and are interested in joining us on our mission to diversify Calgary’s economy, we invite you to apply.
EDI Commitment Statement
Calgary Economic Development celebrates diversity and is committed to advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Through EDI, we create a path to success for all our employees, where they have equal opportunity for advancement, have the voice to contribute to our collective growth and development and work in an inclusive environment.
We strongly believe in accessibility in the work we do and welcome requests to make the hiring process as accessible as possible. Accommodations are available for candidates on request during
all aspects of the selection process. Please advise at any point and we will do our best to work with you to meet your needs.
Calgary Economic Development adheres to the Alberta Human Rights Code. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples and persons of all races, ethnic origins, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions. Please be aware that Calgary Economic Development is committed to having a safe work environment.
To Apply
Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and resume in confidence to:
calgaryeconomic.bamboohr.com/careers by
3:00pm, September 30, 2026.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
