Natasha Golbeck joins District of Squamish in senior community services role

The District of Squamish is pleased to introduce Natasha Golbeck as Senior Director Community Services. Golbeck is responsible for providing leadership at both the strategic and operational levels to the areas of Recreation, Arts and Culture, Squamish Fire Rescue, Bylaw and Animal Control, and is the senior liaison with the RCMP management team. Golbeck joined the organization in May, following the retirement earlier this year of Jeff Sim.

Golbeck comes to the District from Vancouver Coastal Health where she held the position of Director of Strategy Deployment for Vancouver Community Services. Most significantly, Golbeck led the planning, process, governance and evaluation for the Downtown Eastside Second Generation Health Strategy, a $59 million project redesigning 68 internal and contracted services in a high profile environment centred on a population with the highest concentration of complex health needs in the region.

“We are very pleased to have Natasha’s experience at the District’s senior leadership table,” says Mayor Patricia Heintzman. “Natasha brings broad expertise from a business and finance perspective, as well as stakeholder communications in environments with competing perspectives, and a policy lens on the work between government and non-governmental sectors. She is already proving to be a valuable member of our team.”

Golbeck lives in Squamish with her young family. She is energetic and is passionate about running and the outdoors.

“I have grown to love Squamish and its prehistorically beautiful landscape, and I am very excited to be in this position, and part of the growth that the town is navigating,” says Golbeck. “I’m a big proponent of strategy, which is all the more important as demands and pressures increase. There are many excellent plans and policies in place within the District and I look forward to helping support and evolve those through my work, and to collaborate with local organizations to leverage our collective leadership and assets for community benefit.”

June 22, 2018