Luna Dance Institute is looking for a full-time Director of Administration to join our leadership team as we transform Luna in its 4th decade. Our team values of inquiry, collaboration, and creativity guide us as we advance Luna’s mission and Theory of Change. 

Hiring objective: Work with staff, executives, and board of directors to manifest Luna’s strategic goals.  

Responsibilities include: Strategic planning, directing personnel to achieve strategic goals, daily operations, budget and financial management; grant and contract proposal writing, reporting, and compliance with full team; and facility management. The position requires a leader with technical, humanitarian, and conceptual skills—one who sees how the small and mindful acts are related to the big picture. 

Compensation: $77,000-$90,000 (commensurate with experience) plus paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave, and retirement and health plans with employer match.

Deadline to apply: August 25, 2021
 
Apply for this position if…

You enjoy

• Both big-picture thinking and attention to detail
• Being responsible for and responsive to the needs of diverse individuals and communities
• Learning and growing alone and in collaboration
• Children, family, teachers, artists, dancers

You value

• Equity and inclusion
• Inquiry
• Creative process
• Critical conversations on dilemmas that may not have a sole answer

You have some of these 

• Experience managing or directing a nonprofit arts organization
• Past work as a teacher or working with teachers, children or families
• Fundraising, budgeting, planning skills
• Dance is a part of your life
• Willingness to add new perspectives to a diverse team
• Empathy, curiosity, tenacity, humor
• Communication skills in writing, speaking, other media

In a typical week, you might

• Prepare financial reports for a board meeting or grant report
• Reach out to a stakeholder to share some Luna news
• Brainstorm future programs and services
• Help staff understand how their efforts are connected to goals
• Help funders see how Luna’s work extends beyond stereotype
• Go to the bank, pay some bills, send an invoice
• Navigate multiple web portals to update Luna’s state or national arts data
• Take a walk to clear your mind and return to share an ‘aha’ moment

To apply: Compose a letter addressing how you see yourself contributing to Luna’s work, mission, or Theory of Change. Inform us of your past or current work or creative accomplishments to paint a picture of how your experience can advance Luna. Send the letter and work history as a pdf to Jochelle Pereña, jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org.

About Luna Dance Institute
Luna Dance Institute was established in 1992 with a mission to bring creativity, equity and community to every child’s life through the art of dance.

We value the endless possibilities revealed when CREATING through dance. Dance requires us to be present and open in the moment, accessing freedom in new and unpredictable ways. Dance is embodied knowledge made visible, aesthetically crafted to communicate through movement. At Luna, we value children for who they are today and for their potential to CHANGE and shape our world. We strive for integrity as we serve our COMMUNITY by increasing access to dance for all children and providing support and solidarity to those who teach them.

We believe it is every child’s right to dance. Each year we partner with multiple schools and organizations, and support hundreds of educators and teaching artists, in developing creative, high-quality dance programs for children.

Discover more at lunadanceinstitute.org

Luna encourages applicants representing diverse backgrounds that include—but are not limited to—race, ethnicity, age, ability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender or political affiliation.