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Job Summary |
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Job Description |
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The Flynn incorporates two performance spaces: the original theatre, restored to its Art Deco splendor, and FlynnSpace, an intimate black box/cabaret performance setting, as well as education and dance studios and an art gallery. The Flynn produces and provides artistic direction for the ten-day Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, in association with Burlington City Arts.
With an annual budget of $6.4 million, the Flynn has 33 FTE staff members, as well as box office and front of house staff, production crew, and teachers, and a deeply committed board of directors with 27 members. It is the proud home of many thriving arts groups including Lyric Theatre, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Youth Orchestra, and the Vermont Stage Company. It also is the strategic partner in the first Arts Integrated Magnet School in the State of Vermont. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the corporation and is charged with external and community relations, fund development, strategic planning and artistic and programmatic policy as well as operational, financial, and administrative management.
Senior staff reporting to the Executive Director include the Chief Programming Officer/Artistic Director, the Chief Financial Officer/Director of Administration, the Directors of Education, Development, and Facilities, and the Managing Director of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.
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The ideal candidate will have senior experience in leading a dynamic arts organization, a minimum of seven years of not-for-profit arts venue management, and a university degree in arts, humanities or business management or equivalent experience in facility management and administration.
The new Executive Director will have demonstrated leadership in fund-raising with superior analytical, financial, and organizational credentials. Other necessary characteristics include a passion for the performing arts and arts education, political savvy and diplomacy, exceptional oral and written communication skills, a track record in building community participation and partnership, and the ability to deal humanely and wisely with a broad spectrum of personalities. The Executive Director must be a strategic thinker and a relationship builder: someone who maintains a high professional profile, can secure financial resources, and, with his or her staff, is able to develop unique collaborative relationships with other organizations.
The Founding Executive Director & CEO, Andrea Rogers, retires in June of 2010. Hiring an Executive Director who can sustain the Flynn’s team-oriented culture is a priority for the Search Committee as this operational model has been critical to the organization’s past success.
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits package. Interested candidates are invited to submit a letter of interest, resume, and list of references by Friday, January 15, 2010 in confidence to:
Margaret Genovese Senior Partner GENOVESE, VANDERHOOF & ASSOCIATES 77 Carlton Street, Suite 1103 Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2J7 416/340-2762; Fax: 416/340-6276 gvasearch@gmail.com
For additional information see: www.flynncenter.org, www.genovesevanderhoof.com
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