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Sunday, April 21, 2024
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Executive Director – Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley


 Seeking an entrepreneurial, strategic and creative business leader to contribute to this award-winning youth choir's next chapter of growth. [READ MORE]
 

 

Executive Director – Ballet Idaho


 The Executive Director will work in a shared leadership relationship with the Artistic Director with both positions reporting to and working collaboratively with the Board of Directors. [READ MORE]
 

 

Executive Director – Opening Act


 The Executive Director will steward the organization with a love for theater and arts education combined with a talent for strategic leadership. [READ MORE]
 

 

Executive Director – Voices of Ascension


 The Executive Director will collaborate with the Artistic Director and program chairs to ensure successful program delivery and with the Board of Directors [READ MORE]
 

 

CFO- Arena Stage


 The CFO is a critical member of the Senior Management Team and important ally to Arena’s co-leaders providing operational leadership and oversight in all matters of ongoing financial management, accounting and strategic business development. [READ MORE]
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Seeks Director of Production 

The Director of Production will oversee the management of the creative teams, OSF Production staff, the design process, and build the implementation, run, and transfer of OSF projects. Reporting to the Artistic Director, this position will provide overall supervision to the Production department and associated stakeholders, including creative team members, scenery, stage operations, props, costumes, […] [READ MORE]

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FringeArts seeks CEO & Producing Director 

The Chief Executive Officer and Producing Director (CEO & PD) will drive the organization’s next level of growth through a strategic evolution that enhances FringeArts’ impact and reach. [READ MORE]

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Chief Executive Officer, Motown Museum 

The CEO will be a dynamic, high-energy leader with a minimum of 10 years of strategic leadership experience. [READ MORE]

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Chief Programming and Engagement Officer 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT or the Trust), one of the nation’s premier arts presenters and a major catalytic influence in the city of Pittsburgh, seeks a chief programming and engagement officer (CPEO). [READ MORE]

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Payroll/HR Administrator, Mark Morris Dance Group 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: This position supports the entire organization, interacting regularly with all supervisors as well as all employees and independent contractors. In addition to superb attention to detail and accuracy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are critical to the success of this role. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the HR […] [READ MORE]

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Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art 

The ICA has become a focal point of Richmond’s energetic arts district, serving as a nexus for creativity and inclusion, where innovative thinking and transformational ideas are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines. [READ MORE]

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Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance 

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego invites exceptional dance educators and dance makers who emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies and whose research is rooted in African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and practices that are varyingly multiracial, trans-geographic and intersectional. [READ MORE]

 

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