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Managing Director

Employer
JAG Productions
Location
White River Junction, Vermont
Closing date
Feb 8, 2022

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Focus Areas
Arts / Culture / Humanities
Job Function
Executive / Senior Management
Position Type
Full Time
Degree Level
Bachelors
Willingness to Travel
100%
Experience Level
Management

POSITION PROFILE – MANAGING DIRECTOR
JAG Productions
White River Junction, VT

SEARCH

JAG Productions, a leading incubator of new works by Black, Queer & Trans playwrights, is conducting a nationwide search to appoint its inaugural Managing Director. Reporting to the Producing Artistic Director and the JAG Productions Board of Trustees, the Managing Director position will commence full-time employment starting in February 2022. The search committee will begin interviewing applicants starting January 24, 2022 and remain open until a successful candidate is identified.

ORGANIZATION

At the confluence of the White and Connecticut Rivers, which separate Abenaki land into the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, JAG has nurtured and sustained a multi-generational and multi-racial theatre company with Black artists and community organizers at its center. JAG’s mission is to bring more compassion, empathy, and love into the world by telling stories that challenge hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality. These stories are written and produced by and for Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans folx and the people that love them. JAG strives to tell these crucial stories and provide an artistic sanctuary for creatives seeking rejuvenation, time for reflection, and a space in nature to develop art that will change the world.

Since its founding, JAG has curated, produced, and directed contemporary and classical Black theatre to engage and sustain individual and collective transformations that unsettle hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality. JAG’s primary programming includes: JAGfest, an annual new playwrights’ festival; Theatre on the Hill, five weekends of workshops, concerts, burlesque, and staged readings hosted on the gorgeously picturesque lawn at King Arthur Baking Company in Norwich, VT; and the JAG Musical Theatre Lab, a multi-year lab that offers audiences a new vision of American musical theater storytelling.

JAG operates on a $600,000 and growing annual budget with no deficit and has a healthy operating reserve fund. JAG produces on a Guest Artist contract with Actors’ Equity Association and is housed in multiple facilities in White River Junction, VT which include a 240-seat theatre and storage at Briggs Opera House, 300-seat open-air theatre at King Arthur Baking Company, rehearsal spaces at the Center for Cartoon Studies and Northern Stage, and offices at On Track Community Workspace. JAG is also committed to expanding its artistic development and presence in New York City as part of its strategic vision to establish greater ties with New York-based theatres and artist community.

Today, JAG Productions offers productions five months out of the year, bringing in nearly 5,000 people each season to experience dynamic artists and education programming just five minutes from Dartmouth College. The Managing Director will join a 2-person staff and report to an 8-person board of trustees to manage operations year-round.

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Producing Artistic Director, the Managing Director will have broad administrative responsibility including oversight of strategic planning, budgeting and finance, contracting, marketing and communications, and facilities management. The Managing Director will also take a lead in ongoing efforts to ensure JAG’s financial stability and broadening the company’s contributed income potential by being an active collaborator with the Producing Artistic Director and Board in all fundraising efforts. The Managing Director will also lead staff and board in “better practices” emphasizing humane values and just practices in areas of organizational management, financial oversight, and establishing and maintaining relationships with major individual and institutional donors who have an interest in supporting the future of JAG.

JAG Productions seeks a creative, self-motivated leader whose experience and organizational leadership skills are paired with an approachable and problem-solving attitude. The Managing Director will report to the Producing Artistic Director and the Board of Trustees, and will play a central role in planning and implementing JAG’s vision for the future, while developing the company’s near and long-term strategic planning efforts.

For the fill job description visit: https://www.jagproductionsvt.com/workwithus

APPLICATION SUBMISSION

The Managing Director Search Committee for JAG Productions welcomes qualified applications. To apply, please send a letter of interest and resume electronically to: mdsearch@jagproductionsvt.com.

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