FT Job: Studio Programs Manager
The Studio Programs Manager will oversee the educational programs for José Mateo Ballet Theatre and reports to both the Managing Director and Artistic Director. This is a full-time exempt position and requires 30 working Saturdays per year. Additionally, full-time staff attends/staff up to 20 events per year.
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing and scheduling all studio programs, including children’s classes, adult classes, rehearsals, special events, and rentals
- Primary responsibility for the management of the Cambridge campuses, including:
- Responding timely to inquiries from new and existing students
- Creating a strategy for growth of the school through marketing and promotions (with the Marketing Associate)
- Establishing and stewarding partnerships around school programs
- Planning all school activities and other programs as needed, including Open Houses, Spring Repertory Concerts, YouthWorks, Year End Demonstration, and student participation in festivals
- Managing the scholarship program and collecting tuition and fees
- Scheduling and supervising pianists, teachers, work-study students, interns, and maintenance staff
- Facilitating faculty – parent interaction
- Maintaining attendance records
- Administering evaluations
- Coordinating and supporting the Artistic Director in scheduling and developing quarterly faculty meetings
- Tracking metrics as assigned
- Implementing, maintaining, and updating policies and procedures
Qualifications:
Ideal candidates will have strong written and verbal communications skills, a background in dance and dance education, enjoy working in a multi-cultural environment and excel as a member of a team. Working knowledge of Woodpress, Mindbody, Google Suite, Dreamhost, and Authorize.net desired.
To Apply:
To apply please forward a resume to sfraser@ballettheatre.org.
Application Deadline: May 19, 2023
Salary: $45,000 / Per year
About the Organization:
José Mateo Ballet Theatre is a vibrant and diverse community of artists, arts educators, students, audience members, and partnering organizations working at the intersection of artistic excellence, innovation, and social change. Directed by Cuban-born founder José Mateo and incorporated as a not-for-profit in 1986, JMBT has developed from a single studio dance school into the largest minority led performing arts organization in Greater Boston. In the local market, José Mateo Ballet Theatre is the 12th largest performing arts organization. JMBT is the 71st largest dance company, 50th largest ballet company, and 6thlargest minority-led dance organization in America.
The defining feature of José Mateo Ballet Theatre is the successful alignment of excellence, innovation and creativity, social responsibility, and financial sustainability to build and strengthen community. While José Mateo Ballet Theatre is widely recognized as New England’s leading producer of new, critically acclaimed ballets, it is also renowned for its inclusive, humanistic approach to training, extensive outreach to disadvantaged children and families, effective community engagement and the integration of diversity in thought, appearance, ability and cultural backgrounds.
In 2000, the organization secured a long-term lease on Old Cambridge Baptist Church, listed in the Registry of National Historic Places and centrally located in Harvard Square. The facility houses the organization’s administrative offices, four classroom studios and the company’s 6,000 sq. ft. performance venue, The Sanctuary Theatre. Currently, The National Trust for Historic Preservation is developing a case study highlighting the development of José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s home as an outstanding example of “best practices” in adaptive reuses of a house of worship in the United States.
JMBT is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in all programs, services and employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race/ethnicity, economic background, cultural background, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, criminal history or veteran status.
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