Organization: Audience Architects
Job Location: Chicago, IL
Application Deadline: September 2, 2013

Audience Architects (AA) is seeking a Community Engagement Manager.

The Community Engagement Manager will report to the Executive Director, working to serve the organization’s core mission and programs. Specifically, the Community Engagement Manager will oversee a variety of community programs and initiatives that strengthen the organization’s ability to serve a more diverse range of dance artists, more deeply engage with diverse audiences, and underscore our commitment to delivering more significant support for the field.

Send a cover letter, resume, and a list of 2-3 references to Heather Hartley, executive director. Insert “AA Community Engagement Manager” in the email subject line.

No phone calls, please.

Organization: Canadian Dance Assembly
Job Location: Toronto, Ontario
Application Deadline: September 30, 2013

The Canadian Dance Assembly is seeking a full time Executive Director.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director is charged with leading the Canadian Dance Assembly with its mission, vision, and community values as a guide. The Executive Director will help ensure that the milieu is viable, dynamic, and cohesive, building a unified voice for dance, and leading the community as a whole into its next stage of development. The scope of responsibility will include oversight of external and community relations, membership services, revenue generation, long range planning, and the overall internal operational, financial, and administrative responsibility for the organization. The Executive Director will maintain an institutional culture that balances the diversity and richness of the Canadian dance milieu with the efficacy of best business practices, fiscal accountability, and institutional impact.

Job responsibilities include:

Advocacy and Organizational Advancement 
Identify stakeholders, develop strategies, and define how key messages will be delivered to various individuals, funders, and organizations to maximize visibility, brand, and earned and contributed revenues. Guide the public image and brand awareness of the organization, clearly articulating its mission, vision, programs, and impact, and acting as a primary spokesperson with the Board President and/or the Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee.

Operational and Strategic Planning and Management
Oversee short-term operational and long-term strategic planning and implementation processes, including the effective mentoring and supervision of the organization’s professional and volunteer human resources, mobilization of technical resources and decision making related to appropriate use of fiscal resources.

Finance
Working in close collaboration with the Board, the Executive Director will be responsible for resource management, including the preparation of government and foundation funding proposals for operations and projects; development of a workable annual budget, monitoring financial activity and cash flow regularly, ensuring ongoing accurate and informative reporting, and making decisions in accordance to financial realities, priorities and risk management contingencies and development of marketing and public relations programs that achieve earned income goals.

Governance
Provide support to best utilize the talents and resources of the Board, stimulate involvement, recruit new members and work closely with the Board to ensure fiscal health and effective governance of the organization.

Qualifications include: a graduate degree or commensurate professional experience; strong reading, writing and verbal skills in English, with a competency in communicating verbally in French; broad ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders in a positive manner with superior interpersonal, verbal and written presentation abilities; and results-oriented leadership with ability to organize and motivate people to accomplish goals while creating a sense of order and strategic direction.

Submit a cover letter and resume to the Canadian Dance Assembly Search Committee.

Organization: CityDance
Job Location: Washington, DC
Application Deadline: August 30, 2013

The Director of Marketing and Communications is responsible for developing and implementing a clearly defined integrated marketing strategy; leading all internal and external communications and public relations initiatives; and overseeing the development and implementation of all online and print materials. Responsibilities include managing a staff of one full-time marketing coordinator and a part-time social media coordinator. This position reports to the Executive Director and works closely and collaboratively with the entire staff in order to build and support the brand and profile of the overall organization as well as each of its many individual programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated marketing strategy that defines the organization as a whole, while creating marketing initiatives specific to the organization’s individual programs, events, and performances.
• Develop a communications and public relations program that will establish and enhance the organization’s profile, image, and position within the field.
• Responsible for editorial direction, design, production, and distribution of all the organization’s collateral materials, including the website, ensuring consistent messaging, appearance, and presentation.
• Manage all public relations activities, which include: generating media interest in events and stories through press releases and pitches, maintaining ongoing relationships with the media, response to media requests, and acting as the organization’s representative with the media.
• Develop creative advertising strategies for specific events and programs and also seeking out new opportunities for cross promotions and partnerships.
• Establish strong working relationships with the leadership of the organization to establish marketing and communications priorities.
• Manage and schedule freelancers, vendors, volunteers and interns, including videographers, photographers and designers.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years marketing/communications/PR leadership experience in a complex organization, preferably in the arts and/or not-for-profit sector.
• A Bachelor or Master’s degree in marketing, communications, and PR preferred.
• Proven ability to develop effective long term marketing and communications strategies.
• Experience in creatively developing and managing budgets within a cost restrictive environment.
• Proven success in the design and production of print materials and publications.
• Experience in developing and maintaining productive relationships with the media.
• Ability to manage traditional marketing: oversee creative, place ad buys, and maximize media sponsorship agreements.
• Knowledge of new media strategy, including social media and grassroots initiatives.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and writing skills.
• Arts management and/or dance experience is a plus.

Contact CityDance to apply.

Organization: Dance Studio M
Job location: Solon, OH
Application Deadline: September 1, 2013

Dance Studio M is seeking a highly qualified dance instructor for hip hop and ballet classes. College degree in dance or professional experience preferred but not required.

Choreography opportunities also available.

Hourly rate negotiable for a 9 month contract beginning in September 2013.

Interested candidates should email cover letter and resume.

Organization: Denver Independent Choreographers Project
Job Location: Denver, CO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2013

Denver Independent Choreographers Project (DICP) exists as an open opportunity for choreographers in the Denver area to present their choreography, build a performance resume, and acquire community support. We adjudicate choreographic submissions upon entry to our concerts and strategically select the most compelling set of dances for a particular concert. Once selected, DICP will showcase choreography in our professionally produced concerts and serve as a partner in the Denver dance community.

The Executive Director is responsible for the overall leadership, management, strategic planning, and fundraising for DICP. Interested candidates please email resume and letter of interest to DICP.

Organization: Foundation Center
Job Location: New York, NY

The Foundation Center is seeking a dynamic leader to design, implement, and manage a forward-looking "bricks and clicks" strategy capable of connecting social sector organizations to funding and other knowledge resources they need to thrive. The Foundation Center's "bricks" are comprised of 5 regional offices and an affiliated network of some 480 public libraries, community foundations, and educational institutions nationwide and around the world. The Center's "clicks" are rooted in the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global foundations and their grants together with other forms of content about how philanthropy, nonprofits, corporations, and social entrepreneurs are addressing the challenges of our time.

The Foundation Center's multiple web properties receive close to 10 million visits per year while its physical network is used live by hundreds of thousands of nonprofit professionals, consultants, job seekers, and the general public.

For a full job description and to apply, click here.

Organization: EmcArts
Job location: New York, NY
Application Deadline: August 23, 2013

EmcArts seeks an experienced Executive & Business Development Assistant to support the President and the Managing Director, as well as the funding and delivery of EmcArts programs.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding and proactive implementer with strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Candidates should have experience working with executive leaders in an entrepreneurial environment, and thrive working as a part of a small, close-knit creative team. Areas of responsibility include travel, project management, liaising with the Board, research efforts focused on business development, among other additional duties.

See full job description here.

Organization: ODC
Job Location: San Francisco, CA

ODC is seeking a Theater Programming & Operations Manager.

This pivotal position needs fluency or at least some knowledge and skill in several areas including: contemporary dance and performing arts audiences; artistic program and audience development; event and office management; technical theater; and facilities maintenance and oversight. This role operates within a three-person team of full-time staff dedicated to realizing and supporting ODC Theater programs with hourly staff as direct reports and in concert with essential staff (Marketing, Development, Production, and Finance) that services ODC Theater as well as the entire organization.

This is a full-time, salaried position (with benefits) reporting directly to the Theater Director.

See a full job description here. Send cover letter and resume to Christy Bolingbroke for consideration. 

Organization: Princeton University (Lewis Center for the Arts)
Job Location: Princeton, NJ
Application Deadline: October 1, 2013

Princeton University invites applications for the Fellows in the Creative & Performing Arts funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Fellowships will be awarded to early-career artists demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Fellows will be in residence for academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 at Princeton, interacting with students, faculty, and staff in an artistically vibrant university community. Fellows will teach a course or take on an artistic assignment.

An annual salary is provided.

Click here for full details, guidelines, and the on-line application.

Organization: Princeton University (Lewis Center for the Arts)
Job Location: Princeton, NJ
Application Deadline: October 1, 2013

Princeton University invites applications for the Hodder Fellowship which will be given to writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the 2014-2015 academic year (no formal teaching is involved). Potential Hodder Fellows are writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have "much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts;" they are selected more "for promise than for performance."

Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.

A $75,000 stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.

For full details, guidelines, and the on-line application, click here. 

Organization: Sangre de Cristo Arts Center School of Dance
Job Location: Pueblo, CO

The School of Dance at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center is searching for a part-time instructor of ballet, pointe and creative movement, preferably in the Vaganova method. Knowledge in other genres of dance is a plus. Other responsibilities include assisting the artistic director during the creative process and stage rehearsals, advising students, creating written proficiency reports twice a year, parent-student meetings twice a year, following a preset curriculum and evaluation rubric, and choreographing for the annual student concert and Nutcracker.

BA or BFA preferred. Performance opportunities are optional. Salary range for this part-time position varies depending on teaching workload and applicant experience.

Position start date is September 4, 2013. Email resume and cover letter to Stephen Wynne.

Organization: Texas Ballet Theater
Job Location: Fort Worth, TX

Texas Ballet Theatre (TBT) is seeking a Marketing Director.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Marketing Director is an action-oriented position responsible for all aspects of TBT’s marketing program. The position is charged with the development and implementation of short and long-term strategic marketing plans aimed at maximizing ticket sales and revenue as well as enhancing TBT’s brand and reputation through a variety of media, both traditional and new, including print and online publications, TV, and radio. The Marketing Director ensures long-term audience growth and serves as a member of the senior management team, advising other leaders regarding successful promotion to attract and retain audiences. This position is also responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, training, and managing all marketing functions.

Email cover letter, resume, and list of references for consideration.

Organization: Texas Ballet Theater
Job Location: Fort Worth, TX

Texas Ballet Theater (TBT) is looking for a positive, upbeat individual to fill a sales position. This position will spend most time (90%) on the phone soliciting for ticket sales, as well as general office duties. Some inbound sales and work at venue box offices may be required, all while providing excellent customer service and integrity of patron data.

The position is part-time, starting at 20 hours/week with the opportunity to increase up to 30, with very flexible scheduling during regular office hours.

Email cover letter and resume to TBT for consideration. 

Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dance Department
Job Location: Milwaukee, WI

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dance Department is in search of an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance.

The faculty member will be expected to teach all levels of undergraduate and graduate courses in the following: contemporary dance technique with a somatic perspective; improvisation and/or dance composition; 20th Century Contemporary Dance History; and one or more additional dance academic courses.

Minimum Qualifications
Candidate must have a terminal degree (MFA in Dance or PhD in Dance, Performing Arts or a related field) by the start of the appointment; a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of university-level teaching experience in contemporary dance technique for dance majors (at least two semesters at an intermediate and/or advanced level). Distinguished and active professional performance and choreographic career. University experience in teaching improvisation or dance composition, and lecture-based course(s). Preferred Qualifications: Experience utilizing Dance and technology; and/or substantial experience in African Dance and/or African Diaspora and/or other cultural forms; and/or a 500+ hour certification in a Somatic discipline. For a full job description click here.

Persons interested in being considered for this position must apply through theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment Site. Completed online application will include the following: 1) a letter of application addressing the job requirements; 2) a curriculum vitae (not more than 10 pages in length); 3) a one-page document listing the names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references (reference letters will not be considered by the committee); 4) a one-page teaching philosophy; 5) a one-page work sample description with online links to both choreographic and performance samples; and 6) a one-page description of recent and projected creative and/or scholarly research. Screening of candidates begins September 3, 2013 and continues until position is filled. Applications received after September 2, 2013 may not be considered.

Organization: Ballet Academy East
Audition Location: New York, NY (Ballet Academy East)
Audition Dates/Times: Wednesday, August 28 @ 4:45pm and Monday, September 16 @ 5:30pm

Ballet Academy East announces creation of Boys’ Scholarship Program. Pre-Professional Ballet Division – auditions for male students, ages 7-18.

Eight, full-year tuition scholarships will be awarded.

Audition Dates, Times and Location
Wednesday, August 28th at 4:45 PM
Monday, September 16th at 5:30 PM
*Girls’ auditions will also be held on these dates. Dancers will be separated into groups upon arrival.

To apply, go to BAE’s website, click on “Pre-Professional Division,” and follow the online instructions or send an email.

Organization: Dance NOW! Miami
Audition Location: Miami, FL (Little Haiti Cultural Center)
Audition Dates/Times: Wednesday, August 28 @ 10am

Dance NOW! Miami is looking for male and female dancers for the 2013/14 season with a strong background in modern dance and ballet and strong partnering skills. For women pointe work is preferred but not required.

The company is audition dancers for a 20 non-consecutive week contract running October 2013 through June 2014. The starting salary is $250 per week; dancers must have a valid passport for international touring.
The rehearsal schedule consists of Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10 am to 5 pm.

To secure your audition space, send an email to Dance NOW! Miami.

Organization: Ballet Quad Cities
Location: Rock Island, IL
Audition Dates/Times: Ongoing

Ballet Quad Cities is seeking dancers with strong ballet and contemporary technique for a 28-30 week contract plus touring.

Please submit resume and video link to Artistic Director, Courtney Lyon.

Organization: Dizzy Feet Foundation
Application Deadline: August 30, 2013

Dizzy Feet Foundation (DFF) makes grants to community organizations and other tax-exempt entities in the United States, which provide dance education programs to children in low-income areas and disadvantaged communities. Through its grant recipients, DFF seeks to give children the experience of dance, to educate them about the many styles of dance, and to expose them to the lifelong benefits of dance. Programs must serve children under the age of 18. Criteria include, but are not limited to, the number of children served, the socio-economic population served, style(s) of dance offered, the quality of education, and the qualifications of those directly teaching dance within the program.

Click here for details.

Organization: Creative Capital
Webinar Date/Time: Monday, August 19, 2013 from 7pm-8:30 pm
Price: $25.00

Led by choreographer Andrew Simonet, this 90-minute webinar is geared to artists working in all disciplines and covers all aspects of real life budgeting, including misconceptions about money, four things you can do for your financial life this week, establishing sustainable life-long principles, determining what your time costs, and creating a realistic budget for an artistic project.

To attend this webinar, you will need access to a computer with speakers and an Internet connection (hard-wired is preferred over wireless). There is no special software needed.

Webinars are recorded. The recording will be shared with all previously registered participants after the webinar, regardless of whether participants attend the live workshop or not.

Click here to register.

Organization: Arts Reach
Conference Location: Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco
Conference Dates: Thursday, October 24 - Saturday, October 26, 2013
Registration Deadline: October 1, 2013

Register by October 1, 2013 to get 2 registrations for the price of 1!

What could be better than coming to the most beautiful city in the world and discovering the best ways to foster growth for your arts organization?

In recent years, arts groups have been doing great work in keeping up with challenging and demanding times. Now, with the economy picking up steam, the time is right to develop new strategies for advancing your organization to a new level of stability and growth.

Are you finding, retaining and upgrading the audiences and donors you need to put your organization on solid footing? Are your departments working together to save time and money so that you can accomplish more with less? Is your branding working for, or against, you?

Are your technologies the most effective and efficient ones for your unique situation? Are your pricing strategies working, or are you leaving money on the table?

Find conference details, including registration and lodging here.