Leduc): Theatre Coordinator – Leduc​/Maclab Centre Performing Arts

Permanent, Full-Time – 40 hours per week $86,960.64 – $ / annum

At the City of Leduc, our mission is People. Building. Community. We offer a collaborative and dynamic workplace where our values of Teamwork, Service, Respect, and Leadership guide our team’s work to support community wellbeing and connection, making Leduc a place where people want to live, work and play.

We are currently recruiting a permanent, full-time Theatre Coordinator for the Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts. Reporting to the Manager, Cultural Development, the Theatre Coordinator is a subject‑matter expert that will champion a vision of culture as an essential feature of the community by actively supporting and promoting the three pillars of the Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts: learn, connect explore.

The position is responsible for leading the business, creative, and operational requirements of the Maclab Centre, ensuring that clients, artists, patrons and ratepayers get consistently exceptional value through their engagement with the theatre; and proactively engaging public input and maintain strong interdepartmental and community working relationships to move forward the City’s Cultural Development Strategy.

• Guide the continuous improvement of portfolio performance through analysis, development and implementation of sound management practices and procedures, provides program management staff with direction and guidance, processes and tools to increase efficiencies and improve effectiveness of the services provided
• Administer agreements and contracts with a variety of stakeholders, contractors, consultants, and community organizations; leads and participates with the procurement process for small project management requirements
• Research, negotiate and book events and performers, including hospitality and technical riders
• Liaise closely with the municipal facilities department to develop and administer facility and asset management plans
• Lead Technical Services area, ensuring a sustainable and strategic approach to best-practices, capacity development, and asset management is in place
• Actively support, motivate, recognize, coach, lead and manage direct reports, including: performance management, work assignment and flow, quality of service and work output, and staff development opportunities, including the encouragement of continuous learning and innovation
• Prepare and maintain operating and capital budgets as well as the Maclab Centre’s business plan, adhering to all budgetary reporting requirements and utilizing appropriate corporate software
• Pursue provincial and federal granting streams to support capital and operational capacity of the Maclab Centre, ensuring all requirements for the completion of grants is consistently met

You are an ideal candidate if you have the following:

• Post‑secondary diploma in Arts and Cultural management, Theatre Production or related field of study; or an equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience
• Minimum 6 years’ experience leading arts presenting, theatre production, and community programming; with an understanding of facility rentals
• Progressive experience with increasing responsibility in a management leadership role in theatre management, production management, touring productions, venue reconfigurations, staging, lighting, audio, video, and facility operation
• Experience working collaboratively with professional and amateur presenters, artists, volunteers, and community groups
• Knowledge of government legislation in the area of occupational health and safety as it relates to the operation of a public theatre as well…