FLACC is Hiring! TWO POSITIONS OPEN!
OPEN CALL FOR FLACC, MANAGING DIRECTOR + PrODUCTION MANAGER (PART-TIME) [POSITION TERM: 2022 - 2024]
¡Bienvenidxs!
The Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic human to fill in the following positions: Managing Director, and Production Manager. Join us with this year’s festival series titled Si Agua Si and beyond. Your support, presence, and commitment will ensure that FLACC as an organization is running smoothly and will empower us to execute the full vision of our fall festival this year, which includes street and theater performances, site-specific interventions, and amplifying the voices of Latinx and Indigneous performance artists. FLACC prides itself on being the premiere festival for celebrating Latinx/Chicanx and Indigenous diversity putting forth exceptional programs that set the standard for dance venues. Your role is a critical element of continuing to move towards and achieve this goal by adding your unique gifts and energy.
Bay Area Applicants Preferred
Pay is competitive, depending on experience. START DATE: ASAP
To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to admin@flaccdanza.org
Core Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Ideally you are:
Additional Notes:
To apply, please submit a brief cover letter stating what moves you to apply for this position and your qualifications to Artistic Director, Liz Duran Boubion, at admin@flaccdanza.org. If you have any questions about this position, feel free to write to Liz directly to set up a brief time to chat.
The Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic human to fill in the following positions: Managing Director, and Production Manager. Join us with this year’s festival series titled Si Agua Si and beyond. Your support, presence, and commitment will ensure that FLACC as an organization is running smoothly and will empower us to execute the full vision of our fall festival this year, which includes street and theater performances, site-specific interventions, and amplifying the voices of Latinx and Indigneous performance artists. FLACC prides itself on being the premiere festival for celebrating Latinx/Chicanx and Indigenous diversity putting forth exceptional programs that set the standard for dance venues. Your role is a critical element of continuing to move towards and achieve this goal by adding your unique gifts and energy.
Bay Area Applicants Preferred
Pay is competitive, depending on experience. START DATE: ASAP
To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to admin@flaccdanza.org
Core Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain production timeline for FLACC’s annual showcase and other programs;
- Serve as a contact person for artists and community members presented by the Festival, including handling contracts with each respective artist and core Festival partners;
- Coordinate artist participation in FLACC events;
- Work collaboratively with FLACC’s Artistic Director, Production Manager, Administrative Assistant, and other Staff to conduct marketing and outreach for FLACC events and be the point person between FLACC and their festival partner, Dance Mission Theater;
- Manage FLACC events (including meetings with staff, curators, venues, artists, showings, classes and performances);
- Develop annual operating budget and artist fees with FLACC’s Artistic Director;
- Track operating expenses for the Festival;
- Provide grant writing, fundraising, hiring and administrative support;
- Shared role in developing community partnerships and marketing/publicity plan;
- Shared production direction/curation responsibilities;
- Support Artistic Director w/ getting our Archive Project off the ground: The Archive Project will become an on-line platform to uplift the work of past FLACC performances in a monthly virtual presentation. The archive project will become a library and resource for our members and friends internationally;
- End of Year Fundraising & Development support;
- Support Artistic Director w/ writing and sending out their newsletter.
Required Skills:
- Excellent writing, verbal, planning, and communication skills;
- Ability to assert leadership with limited supervision (self-starter/pro-active);
- 2+ years experience managing a festival or similar event;
- An understanding of nonprofit financial management and budgeting;
- Excellent organizational skills and great attention to detail;
- Familiarity with the performing arts field preferred;
- Knowledge of social justice issues affecting artists of color and other historically marginalized communities preferred;
- Proficiency in MS Office suite and web-based tools such as Google, Zoom, IG/Facebook and other social media channels;
- Visual design & marketing skills are a plus;
- Bilingual preferred (Spanish/English).
Ideally you are:
- Interested and invested in growing an organization long-term / someone who can commit to working with FLACC for a minimum of 2 years
- We will check in every [3-6] months to touch base about how your progress is going and to receive any feedback on how to improve your experience as Managing Director;
- Already based in the San Francisco Bay Area or planning on moving here relatively soon. Work will oscillate between remote and IRL planning as we get closer to the Festival dates;
- Able to demonstrate a strong resonance with the mission, vision, and ethos of FLACC and are either already working in or closely connected to local, national, and international members of the Latinx community.
Additional Notes:
- Hours fluctuate throughout the year and are based on the scope of the festival and its various programs. They will range between [10 - 40 hours]/week depending on FLACC programming. There is room for growth and full time work year round in 2023.
- This position is a part-time position with potential to become full-time.
- This position is paid as an Independent Contractor (1099).
- This position will be paid via invoicing FLACC bi-weekly. Funds will be disbursed within 5 business days.
To apply, please submit a brief cover letter stating what moves you to apply for this position and your qualifications to Artistic Director, Liz Duran Boubion, at admin@flaccdanza.org. If you have any questions about this position, feel free to write to Liz directly to set up a brief time to chat.
OPEN CALL FOR FLACC, PRODUCTION MANAGER (PART-TIME) [POSITION TERM: 2022 - 2024]
Pay is competitive depending on experience- Bay Area Applicants only
To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to admin@flaccdanza.org
Project Scope
To successfully help coordinate and execute the production of an outdoor street closure festival (sii agua sí) and smaller pop up performance events September- October, 2022, in Yelamu, San Francisco, CA. The Production Manager will oversee the production of 8-10 artists and will coordinate site-visits to the Mission with Stella Adelman of Dance Mission Theater. Classes and virtual programming may occur as part of the festival and throughout the year as well. Following the Outdoor festival will be a virtual festival that will last until the end of November 2021.
You are encouraged to guide the production in whichever direction you envision within contractual limits and as it aligns with the Artistic Director’s goals (and the physical limits of our space and technical setup). Should you have questions, or if any issues arise during the course of the production, you are encouraged to solicit the advice and guidance of the Managing Director and the Artistic Director, Elizabeth Boubion(admin@flaccdanza.org).
Importantly, you are more than just a manager. You are the meeting point of the production. Your responsibility is to provide risk-free experiences for audience members, coordinate with venue managers and staff, and ensure that invited artists fulfill their contractual obligations. Also, you are responsible for helping FLACC in several ways outside of simply managing the show:
Thank you again for your dedication to dance and support of FLACC. We can't celebrate the diversity and innovation of Latinx performance without you! The attached contract describes legally binding details regarding the production you'll be managing.
To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to admin@flaccdanza.org
Project Scope
To successfully help coordinate and execute the production of an outdoor street closure festival (sii agua sí) and smaller pop up performance events September- October, 2022, in Yelamu, San Francisco, CA. The Production Manager will oversee the production of 8-10 artists and will coordinate site-visits to the Mission with Stella Adelman of Dance Mission Theater. Classes and virtual programming may occur as part of the festival and throughout the year as well. Following the Outdoor festival will be a virtual festival that will last until the end of November 2021.
You are encouraged to guide the production in whichever direction you envision within contractual limits and as it aligns with the Artistic Director’s goals (and the physical limits of our space and technical setup). Should you have questions, or if any issues arise during the course of the production, you are encouraged to solicit the advice and guidance of the Managing Director and the Artistic Director, Elizabeth Boubion(admin@flaccdanza.org).
Importantly, you are more than just a manager. You are the meeting point of the production. Your responsibility is to provide risk-free experiences for audience members, coordinate with venue managers and staff, and ensure that invited artists fulfill their contractual obligations. Also, you are responsible for helping FLACC in several ways outside of simply managing the show:
- Decorum – FLACC enjoys a very diverse range of ages, abilities, languages, and artistic processes with the people in our productions. The Manager works to ensure a professional, harmonious, and peaceful production environment.
- Review artist contracts – familiarize yourself with artist contracts. A significant amount of potential friction is avoided by being aware of, and properly managing, the expectations we have of every participant in a production. Your input on amendments are welcome.
- Advertising - you are encouraged to secure advertising within the show program from local business, organizations, and "shout out" ads from cast member's friends and families. You receive 10% of any revenue from program advertising sales. (This may or may not be relevant for an outdoor show- tbd)
- Promotion – Use your personal networks, social media, and contacts in the theatre community as heavily as possible to get the word out, and encourage your cast to do the same. FLACC will work hard to promote our show via our media outlets, advertising, collateral, and community network, but there is nothing that replaces "word of mouth" advertising.
- Publicity- Your experience and expertise with bi-lingual design, press releases and social media will be an additional part of your job description. You will generate a schedule and strategy for publicity materials to be released and attend weekly meetings regarding publicity and production with the FLACC directors. FLACC has scheduling templates, PR templates, newsletter structures on Mailchimp and contact lists must be updated every week during the festival and every month at other times of the year. All of this will be provided and you are free to generate your own systems with your flaccdanza email.
- Programs – FLACC uses a specific template for programs in a format that must be utilized in order for us to provide a legal and consistent appearance.
- Create a tool kit for Cross promotion and community partners (curatorial theme/invitation/
Thank you again for your dedication to dance and support of FLACC. We can't celebrate the diversity and innovation of Latinx performance without you! The attached contract describes legally binding details regarding the production you'll be managing.
