Producer, Creative Arts​/Media, Project & Program Management

Overview

JOB TITLE JOB CLASSIFICATION

Producer — Full-time, Exempt, Benefit Eligible

The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is Vermont’s creative heartbeat - a statewide organization that brings communities together through live performance, public programs, and shared cultural experiences. The Flynn is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We strive to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective.

Our goal is to build and maintain an organization where everyone can do their best work. We strongly encourage applications from people with marginalized identities and from diverse backgrounds.

The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is Vermont’s creative heartbeat - a statewide organization that brings communities together through live performance, public programs, and shared cultural experiences. While based in Burlington, the Flynn’s work extends far beyond its stages through festivals, education programs, and public-space projects that activate theaters, galleries, schools, downtowns, and outdoor spaces across Vermont. The Flynn emphasizes artistic excellence, access, and relevance, creating experiences rooted in place, responsive to community, and alive in the moment.

The Producer ensures that projects and initiatives meet artistic goals, align with organizational strategy, and are thoughtfully realized — creating the context that allows artists, audiences, and communities to fully engage with the work. As a senior project leader, the Producer stewards the planning and execution of Flynn-produced work on campus and across Vermont. Reporting to the General Manager, the Producer ensures that produced projects are delivered with artistic integrity, production excellence, and a cohesive, well-designed experience for artists, audiences, and communities.

Artistic vision for Flynn-produced work is developed by a range of artistic leaders and contributors, including Programming, Education, festival curators, and guest artists. The Producer ensures clarity of artistic leadership for each project, confirms alignment with organizational strategy as guided by the Executive Director, and realizes that vision through strong producing practice. This role emphasizes contextual producing, shaping not only logistics and execution, but the conditions that support audience understanding, access, and meaningful engagement with the work, particularly for off-campus, public-space, and site-responsive initiatives.

The Producer is a director-level position with one direct report, authority to lead cross-functional project teams, and manage multiple flagship initiatives.

Producing, Artistic Quality & Context

• Serve as lead producer for Flynn-produced projects, ensuring artistic goals are met with consistency, integrity, and excellence
• Collaborate with artistic leaders and contributors to translate artistic vision into executable producing plans
• Work in partnership with the Executive Director to ensure produced work aligns with organizational priorities and long-term strategy
• Design and manage the contextual experience of projects, including site selection, audience flow, accessibility, artist support, and community interface
• Uphold high production values across diverse venues and settings, particularly in public-space, off-campus, and site-responsive work

Flagship Initiatives & Portfolio Management

• Serve as lead producer for Playing Fields, overseeing both large- and small-scale, site-responsive outdoor projects and cross-sector partnerships
• Act as line producer for produced elements of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival
• Lead production and execution of the Flynn Breakthrough Program, including commissions, residencies, public-space projects, and artist support
• Serve as project lead for institutional initiatives such as our gala, La Nuit, education-focused programs including Kickline, and other current or future projects
• Adapt producing structures, staffing models, and workflows to support new initiatives as they emerge, ensuring scalability…