The Retail Buyer and Inventory Manager works with the Director, Marketing & Communications to meet revenue goals for the Museum’s on-site and on-line store through the sourcing, selection, and management of merchandise in accordance with the museum’s mission.
Full Time
Executive Director
Friday, May 7, 2021
Job posting for
E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R
Idaho State-Civic Symphony
Pocatello, ID
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OVERVIEW
Idaho State-Civic Symphony Association (ISCS) is the independent 501(c)(3) governing body of the Idaho State-Civic Symphony (Symphony), a highly successful, decades-old collaboration with Idaho State University (ISU or University) in Pocatello, Idaho.
The Symphony is a unique 75- to 85-member orchestra recognized as both the leading performing arts organization in the region and a teaching ensemble for Idaho State University. It is comprised of ISU Department of Music faculty, ISU music performance students, and professional and community musicians. It presents an average of seven high-level professional concert performances annually to full-house audiences of every age and background. Additionally, the Symphony and a 50-member Youth Orchestra reach up to 5,000 students annually through community outreach programs.
Our mission is ”Making Magic and Changing Lives in our Spectacular Home.” We have taken that message to heart under the baton of Dr. Julie Sorensen, Artistic Director/Conductor, presenting a fully virtual 2020/2021 season with free online broadcasts during the COVID-19 epidemic. Our plans are to resume live concerts with in-house audiences, starting September 2021.
The “Spectacular Home” is Jensen Grand Concert Hall (seating 1200) in the magnificent Stephens Performing Arts Center. Located on the ISU campus, Stephens Performing Arts Center is rated fourth (4th) among the 25 Most Amazing University Performing Arts Centers in the United States by Best Value Schools in 2020.
The community of Pocatello-Chubbuck comprises some 70,000 residents, is located in Southeastern Idaho, and has a proud history of manufacturing, railroad, and agricultural economies known throughout the western United States. It is a hub for recreational and outdoor enthusiasts, boasting its own ski area and biking/hiking trails within minutes of the city. World-acclaimed resort towns, Sun Valley, Idaho, and Jackson, Wyoming, are scenic 2 ½ hour drives from Pocatello. At a similar distance is Salt Lake City Metro area.
Salary is commensurate with experience: $48,000 and up, with added negotiated benefits. This is a full-time position with the expectation of attendance outside of the normal working day at ISCS concerts and other Symphony events that may occur in the evenings and/or on a weekend.
POSITION SUMMARY
In collaboration with the Artistic Director/Conductor, the Board of Directors – and with support of a part-time Manager of Operations and a part-time bookkeeper – the Executive Director will provide leadership in financial development, management, marketing, and administration to achieve artistic, financial, and community engagement goals of the organization. This will include:
Strategies for collaboration with community partners as well as the ISU Department of Music.
Expansion of relationships with patrons, donors, sponsors, ISCS and ISU employees, educators, volunteers, and musicians.
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree and five or more years of experience in a music-related senior leadership role; Master’s degree in Arts Administration, Non-Profit Administration or related field preferred.
Working knowledge of orchestra music, production, and operations, including an understanding of issues and challenges facing symphony orchestras.
Measurable experience in fundraising and resource development, including expansion of income streams through grants, enhanced relationships with donors, and endowment/legacy giving opportunities.
Experience in marketing (including content production and management of social media, virtual presentations, and e-commerce platforms), public relations, and audience development.
Experience with budget preparation, grant writing, and non-profit financial reporting.
Commitment to a management style that emphasizes consensus-building, teamwork, and delegation for optimal utilization of talents and skills.
Strong aptitude for verbal and written communication, presentation and relationship development.
Please note: Idaho State-Civic Symphony is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We have an organization-wide commitment to inclusion and diversity, and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
TO APPLY
Please send all inquiries and applications to DirectorSearch@thesymphony.us
Receipt of application will be acknowledged by email, and applications will be reviewed upon receipt. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled
Please submit
Letter of application
Resume
Names, titles, and contact information (emails and telephone numbers) of three (3) professional references.
RESOURCES FOR YOUR REFERENCE
Idaho State-Civic Symphony, www.thesymphony.us
ISCS and ISU Choirs – JOY TO THE WORLD Christmas 2019 Concert,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3CMVqbptA
Stephens Performing Arts Center, bird’s eye view,
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJrK0pGT8MbqNIZJHfr5KRAc_wxVMgDH/view
Pebble Creek Double Diamond Ski Area, a 25-minute drive from town,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6v_tROORwI
Single track Mountain biking in Pocatello,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XarsthgyDVA
ISU – Idaho State University,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9hSbBQJTM8
City of Pocatello, www.pocatello.us
Chamber of Commerce, www.pocatelloidaho.com
Parks & Recreation, www.pocatello.us/278/Parks-Recreation s
Business Manager
FLMS is looking for a highly skilled and curious “hands-on” business manager to join our team and help us grow our tradition of unparalleled student success. This role has a high potential for advancement, with opportunities to move forward within the company. You will be working remotely with a small collaborative team and leaders within the organization to provide day to day operational support and strategic insights. You will be working at the intersection of our three divisions: Filmmaking Lab Studios (content creation), Joan Scheckel Filmmaking Labs (educational programs), Filmmaking Labs Media (the distribution of instructional content in digital formats). The goal of this role is to identify and implement innovation opportunities that have a meaningful impact on the way FLMS fulfills its mission in the entertainment space. Ultimately, you’re responsible for continuing the success of our daily business practices — and ushering in a new era of growth at FLMS.
Objectives of this Role
Organize The Lab Series educational programs and ensure the production of 1 to 2 Labs per month
Oversee sales, marketing strategy, creation of assets, and administrative activities directly related to the Labs
Create, delegate, oversee the implementation of processes to optimize daily operations, while doing parts of the operations in order to think through and support optimizing our systems to strategically build our team as we expand
Innovative developer that manages daily needs to create optimization and processes
Role manages 2 direct reports on a daily basis
Interface with FLMS owner, Joan Scheckel, and liaise directly with high profile artists interested in The Lab Series from around the world
Represent as the voice of the business and build the direction of the company
Lead strategic partnerships on the creation of marketing content
Liaise with accounting department to establish financial objectives, targeting sales goals
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in business, management, marketing or related field
At least 3 years experience as a business manager or relevant managerial role
Proven experience with business and strategy development processes
Outstanding poise in a high demand and high profile educational training environment
Superior leadership skills, with a focus on employee development
Preferred Qualifications
Strong knowledge in Google Drive, Airtable, Photoshop, Zoom, Dropbox, Hootsuite
Previous data analysis experience
Proven ability with financial and budgetary processes
Prior educational training industry experience and maintain a pulse on current and relevant trends including virtual learning
Development Director
Music@Menlo is currently seeking an experienced and highly motivated Development Director to manage and grow a well-established base of contributed support for Music@Menlo. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director leads Music@Menlo’s development department, which includes a full-time development associate and a team of six seasonal interns. The Development Director must also take a major role in the overall strategic leadership of the organization, joining a passionate and highly skilled professional team. The successful candidate will inspire and motivate Music@Menlo’s community of supporters, a dedicated board, and the fundraising team with a high level of passion, intellect, and collaboration. Fundraising priorities include annual fund goals as well as a planned special campaign around the festival’s 20th Anniversary in 2022.
Responsibilities
Fundraising and Patron Relationship Management
· Leads and manages annual fundraising activities, with a goal of approximately $1.6 million annually, including an annual fund campaign with emphasis on major gifts, a scholarship fund, corporate sponsorships, periodic special campaigns, and project funding.
· Manages year-round stewardship, cultivation, and solicitation visits with donors, prospects, board members, and volunteers, in cooperation with executive director and, where appropriate, artistic directors.
· Works directly with Music@Menlo board members and others on donor prospect identification, cultivation, and stewardship and conducts ongoing research of prospective individual donors, foundations, and corporations.
· Plans, coordinates, and executes donor stewardship activities during the festival season and throughout the year.
· Builds and maintains relationships with foundations, including developing strategy and preparing individualized proposals, reports, and materials for grants. Leads research efforts to identify new potential institutional funders.
· Builds and maintains relationships with corporate sponsors.
· Establishes partnerships with and generates in-kind support from local area businesses including high-end restaurants and hotels.
· Leads planning for major capital campaign, expected to be launched in Music@Menlo’s 20th Anniversary Season in 2022, including identifying prospects and potential giving levels, preparing written case statements and solicitation materials and working with executive director on major gift asks.
· Oversees all patron services including CRM system procurement and management, event ticketing, VIP seating, and patron communications.
Strategic Planning
· Participates in strategic planning, strategic plan implementation and outcomes assessment, and ongoing strategy development with board members, senior staff, and outside consultants.
· Participates in task forces for special initiatives as needed.
Management
· Supervises one full-time direct report; oversees management of up to six summer interns on the following teams: hospitality, development, and patron services.
For a complete description and application instructions, please visit https://musicatmenlo.org/about/jobs.
Technical Director
A Noise Within seeks a Technical Director to oversee the production operations for all ANW productions.
The Technical Director is responsible for supervising all aspects of production construction, supervising all
construction and running crews, working with the Production Manager and Costume Shop Manager to
realize ANW’s productions, coordinating basic facilities maintenance, and contributing to a safe and
equitable production environment.
A successful candidate will have:
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a technical director, stage carpenter, or member of a production
department
• Broad understanding of all aspects of technical theatre
• Experience overseeing production crews and either building scenery or working with external scene
shops
• Proficiency with industry software such as CAD programs
• Proficiency with QLab
• A theatrical rigging certification or equivalent
• Experience reading ground plans, light plots, and other theatrical specifications and turning those plans
into realized production elements on schedule and on budget
• Excellent communication skills including navigating technical and non-technical artistic conversations
• The ability to prioritize multiple simultaneous projects successfully and work effectively with artists,
production teams, volunteers, and staff
Working conditions and physical demands:
• Ability to lift 35 lbs
• Ability to climb ladders and work off the ground in a Genie lift or in catwalks
• Ability to see in low-light conditions (such as a dark theater)
• Availability for night and weekend hours
• Ability to drive and a valid driver’s license
RESPONSIBILITES
• Attend and advise on elements of production meetings
• Lead and supervise build and load-in
• Coordinate notes that arise during production rehearsal/tech
• Support Production Manager in staying on schedule and on budget for production projects
• Work with directors and design teams to ensure timely completion of all designs
• Supervise production personnel including electricians, carpenters, running crews, etc.
• Oversee (with Production Manager) inventory and maintenance of all lighting, shop, costume, and
sound equipment
• Support productions with research on needs including video and projections, special effects, sourcing
and researching materials and techniques, etc.
• Establish and maintain a safe work environment at all times
The position is full time, non-exempt, salary range $58,240-62,000 annually DOE, plus a competitive
benefits package including paid health insurance, company-matched benefit savings plan, and paid
vacation. Start date: flexible
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and list of references (3-4) to: mbateman@anoisewithin.org.
Please put “Technical Director – Candidate Last Name” in the subject line. Incomplete applications will not be
considered. Please, no follow up calls. ANW believes in working hard on our anti-racist practice across the
whole organization and we invite candidates to review more information here. Candidates of color and diverse
backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.
Exhibition and Collection Manager
Exhibition and Collection Manager
Category: Administrative
Locations: Oakland, CA
Posted: May 13, 2021
Closes: Open Until Filled
Type: Exempt
Position ID: 131068
About Mills College:
Located in Oakland, California, in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mills College is a liberal arts college for women and gender non-binary students, with graduate programs for all genders. Consistently ranked one of the top master’s universities and one of the best value colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report, Mills also has been named one of the Best Colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. The Mills experience is distinguished by small, interactive classes, one-on-one attention from exceptional faculty, a culture of creative experimentation, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary learning opportunities which empower students to make a statement in their careers and communities. As one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country, we have a strong record of academic success with first-generation students, students of color, Latinx students, LGBTQ students, and other underrepresented students. Mills College has recently become a Hispanic Serving Institution. Applicants with expertise and experience in supporting and promoting success for Latina/o students are encouraged to apply.
Mills College encourages diversity in hiring and particularly welcomes applications and nominations from women, gender non-binary individuals, and minorities. Mills College seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to equity, inclusion, and social justice and our desire to maintain the excellence of our faculty. In so doing, we offer our students not only the opportunity to learn about varied disciplines but to engage with diverse perspectives and ways of knowing and learning. For more information, please visit www.mills.edu.
Job Description:
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Reports To: Director of the Art Museum
Supervises: Part-time student employees and contract professional art handlers
Summary of Position:
Under the direction of the Director of the Art Museum, the Exhibition and Collection Manager at the Art Museum is responsible for managing the physical and logistical aspects of the museum’s exhibition program; overseeing the care and record-keeping of the museum’s permanent collection; and for supervising student employees and contract professional art handlers working in these areas. This position advances goals set out in the Mills Mission Statement and Strategic Plan by ensuring the long-term care of a vital academic asset on campus (the permanent collection and museum facility) and providing professional oversight of exhibitions that enhance the intellectual and creative life of the Mills community and the larger Bay Area.
Essential Job Functions:
• Plan, schedule, and direct the fabrication, installation, deinstallation, and return of museum exhibitions.
• Arrange for the transport of exhibition materials.
• Identify vendors/contract workers and evaluate quotes to ensure budget compliance.
• Recruit and supervise contract art preparators.
• Train and supervise student employees, including best practices for art handling and registrarial duties as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain systems for accessioning, deaccessioning, and generally managing collection of approximately 13,000 works of art.
• Serve as registrar in activities related to accessioning, maintaining records on artworks, arranging for transportation of artworks loaned from or to the museum, and managing contract conservation work on artworks.
• Organize and maintain orderly files and retrieval systems associated with exhibitions, acquisitions, accessions, deaccessions, loans, packing, shipping, customs, inventory, insurance, art conservation, and storage.
• Responsible for maintenance and security of the building, as well as digital and physical art collections.
• Work with the college legal office to assure that collections and exhibitions are properly insured against potential damage or loss.
• Develop short and long-term recommendations related to updating and maintaining exhibition and collection storage environments in accordance with established standards.
• Serve as co-instructor for the annual Spring Senior Exhibition seminar.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
• Communicate with guest curators and other contract staff, exhibiting artists, and the staff of partner institutions.
• Work closely with art department technical staff as needed.
• Provide timely information for the preparation and monitoring of budgets related to collections care, exhibitions, and renovations.
• Recommend contract staff and other art professionals to allow for effective design and timely, safe installation of exhibitions; recommend same to care for, maintain, and make accessible the museum’s collection.
• Mat and frame collection works for exhibitions as needed.
• Explain techniques of framing, installing, and handling artwork to students.
Create opportunities for collection and archive engagement with students, faculty, outside researchers.
• Serve as the primary contact person for annual Senior and M.F.A exhibitions, through studio visits and technical consultation.
• A valid California driver’s license and safe driving record is required. Driving is a requirement of this job.
Requirements:
Knowledge of:
• Proper artwork handling and moving procedures.
• Artwork installation techniques for a variety of media, including basic AV equipment.
• Museum registration, accession and deaccession, tracking, shipping, and insurance procedures.
• EmbARK collection database software, or museum collection software equivalent.
Using appropriate hand and power tools.
• Microsoft Office, PhotoShop, PowerPoint or equivalent imaging software.
• Basic photography and lighting techniques.
Skills/Abilities:
• Ability to meet schedules and time lines assigned; ability to plan and prioritize.
• Ability to handle multiple projects requiring independent execution.
• Ability to work under pressure and deadlines.
• Interpersonal skills, including tact, patience, and courtesy.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective and productive working relationships.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
Education and Training: Master’s Degree in Art History and/or Studio Art, or equivalent in education and experience. Specialization in museum or curatorial practice preferred. At least four years of curatorial, installation, and/or registration experience, preferably in a college or university museum. Experience supervising students and volunteers in a museum context.
Physical, Mental and Environmental Demands:
• Work involves entering collection cataloguing data which requires attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
• Work occasionally involves physical exertion such as lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds.
• Work occasionally involves working at heights of 20 feet.
• The work station is located in an open office area. Interruptions and meeting with a variety of people will be required on a regular basis.
• There are a number of deadlines associated with this position, which may cause significant stress.
• This position description is not intended to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties, or responsibilities. Additional duties may be assigned based on business operational needs.
Additional Information:
This is a full-time, exempt position with an FTE of 1.0. Salary is $58,240.00, and includes an excellent benefits package including medical/dental/vision/life/LTD insurance, 403(b) retirement plan, 10 days of vacation for year one, 15 days of vacation for years 2-10, and 22 days of vacation years 10+ plus, 12 sick days and 17 paid holidays (subject to annual review).
Mills College does not permit discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. For more information on Mills’ non-discrimination policy, please go to https://www.mills.edu/policies/ada-policies/nondiscrimination-statement.php.
All positions are subject to a background check. Prior to the first date of employment, an applicant’s background check must be cleared.
Application Instructions:
Click the “Apply Now” button below and follow instructions to submit the following documents:
• Employee Application
• Resume
• Cover Letter and
• Contact Information for 3 References
Please note that you can only upload 6 “Other” documents. You can consolidate multiple pages/documents into one file upload. The file size limit for each upload is 10Mb.
Review of applicants will begin immediately; applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/2264435
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