General Manager - Toronto, Canada - Shadowland Theatre

Description

General Manager:


Date Posted:
Feb 14, 2023


Application Deadline:
Mar 06, 2023


Start Date:
May 01, 2023


Salary From:20K
To 25K


Province:
Ontario


Region:
Metro Toronto Area


City:
Toronto


Employee Benefits:
Other (e.g. flex time, comp tickets, etc.)
Check Additional Info section for more Employee Benefits


Organization's Field/Discipline:
The Arts


Job's focus:
Creative & Administrative


Job Type:
Part-time


Career Level:
Middle management


Organization Description:


Shadowland Theatre
Shadowland Theatre is a professional, community-engaged theatre and registered charity.

Our mission is to create theatre that entertains, engages, and inspires us to interact positively with each other and our environments.

Shadowland:

engages with communities to express their stories through spectacle arts, visual theatre and a multi-disciplinary arts; builds long-term relationships with communities, locally and provincially especially those challenged by economic, personal or social issues; passes on skills to participants and artists through workshops and training opportunities; uses visual and site-engaged theatre to animate public spaces; highlights the importance of seasonal, environmental and Indigenous perspectives in artistic creation; works with young people, guiding them, through the arts, on their journeys to adulthood.

Shadowland has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Costume Design and was voted Best Grassroots Theatre by NOW magazine.

Co-Artistic Directors are Anne Barber and Brad Harley.


Shadowland Theatre is looking for a part-time

General Manager to support the co-Artistic Directors in the day-to-day administrative, management and organizational operations of the company.

As a part-time position the role can be customized to an individual's strengths and interests, in close collaboration with the Artistic Directors.

There may be additional opportunities to be involved in other aspects of the company's work on a contract basis. Flexible hours and some remote work possible, occasional evening and weekend work required.

Shadowland operates from a studio and office in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto and on location with the many communities we collaborate with.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supporting the administrative, management and producing elements of Shadowland's activities, which include outdoor theatre events, parades, community workshops, youth programs, intern training, design commissions, and creating special events.
• Managing daytoday operational and administrative tasks: answering inquiries, contracting artists, project and strategic planning, records keeping, evaluation, general office and company management.
• Financial management: project budgeting, invoicing, contracting, coordinating with bookkeeper.
• Assisting with grants, reports, operational budgets, strategic plans, new funding opportunities.
• Publicity and outreach: managing social media, website, newsletters, coordinating and disseminating publicity and promotional materials, liaising with community collaborators.
• Coordinating project, artist and volunteer schedules.
• Liaising with Board members, scheduling meetings, taking minutes.

Requirements:


Requirements:

• Strong sense of prioritizing, clarifying, and defining objectives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills and attention to detail

• Strong computer skills

• Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Wix, Mailchimp, social media but welcome additional efficiencyenhancing options. We are Mac users.
• Adept and imaginative with social media, and creative with outreach and promotion
• Experience working in the arts, theatre and/or notforprofit sector
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Positive, motivated, flexible and adaptable to our changing and sometimes hectic workload

Preferred Qualifications:

• Arts Administration, Theatre Production, or equivalent work and/or educational experience
• Strong communications/promotions/social media experience
• Driver's License is an asset

Additional Info:

As a part-time position the role can be customized to an individual's strengths and interests, in close collaboration with the Artistic Directors.

There may be additional opportunities to be involved in other aspects of the company's work on a contract basis depending on appropriate skills.

Flexible hours and some remote work possible, occasional evening and weekend work required.

Shadowland operates from a studio and office in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto and on location with the many communities we collaborate with.

How to Apply:
Please send a

cover letter, introducing yourself and explaining why you would be a good fit with the company, with your