Description: The Executive Director leads the strategic, artistic, and operational vision of Arts Center East. This includes managing staff, developing programming, overseeing finances, fundraising, community outreach, and building partnerships. The role combines administrative leadership with a passion for the arts, ensuring the center fulfills its cultural mission to bring the arts to everyone while remaining financially sustainable.
Essential Functions:
Organizational Leadership
- Provides leadership and guidance to Board members, staff and volunteers to ensure that ACE is a visible, valuable, and viable asset to the community in accordance with its mission statement;
- Assists the Board of Directors in setting the vision and direction, developing and executing a long-range strategy to achieve Arts Center East’s mission, provides timely reports to the Board of Directors concerning progress in meeting agreed objectives;
- Develops and presents to the board program plans, and executes plans and policies authorized by the Board of Directors;
- Promotes active and broad participation by volunteers;
- As authorized by the Board of Directors, maintains official records and documents in compliance with federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory requirements.
Communications
- Informs the Board of Directors regarding operations, programming and current issues needed by the board to make informed decisions on a timely basis;
- Networks with State and local organizations to advance the activities of Arts Center East, its programs, and goals;
- Establishes and maintains sound working relationships and cooperative arrangements with community groups and organizations willing and capable of supporting Arts Center East’s mission and its strategic goals and objectives;
- Serves as the center’s public face to build community relationships and advocate for the arts. Engages Arts Center East and its programs with other groups and organizations.
- Personnel
- Identifies, hires, and supervises candidates for staff positions authorized by the board of directors;
- Supports recruitment of candidates identified for Board membership;
- Hires instructors for educational programming approved by the Board of Directors;
- Hires presenters and performers for events approved by the Board of Directors;
- Maintains a working environment that attracts, retains, and motivates a diverse group of volunteers.
Budget and Finance
- Develops and maintains financial principles and practices necessary to meet reporting and compliance requirements;
- Works with the Finance Committee to prepare a budget for Board approval;
- Manages Arts Center East operations within the board approved budget, including timely reports to the Board on items impacting the operating budget;
- Works with and at the direction of the Board of Directors to raise necessary operating funding;
- Conducts official correspondence of Arts Center East at the direction of the Board Chair and Secretary of the Board of Directors; executes legal documents at the direction of the Board Chair and Secretary of the Board of Directors.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of nonprofit governance, board relations, and strategic planning.
- Familiarity with nonprofit accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, and compliance.
- Knowledge of how to create, implement, and assess community programs and services.
- Ability to set a clear direction, inspire staff and stakeholders, and drive mission-centered outcomes.
- Excellent oral and written communication for public speaking, grant writing, and stakeholder interaction.
- Skill in budget creation, monitoring expenses, and financial decision-making.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with diverse communities, donors, and board members.
- Assess organizational challenges and opportunities with a big-picture mindset.
- Thrive in changing environments and respond creatively to new challenges or limited resources.
- Represent the organization confidently to external audiences and policy makers.
Additional Working Conditions:
- Interaction with the public and respond accordingly to public, Board, customer requests.
- Occasional climbing of ladders
- Occasional requirement to lift, carry, push and/or pulling various supplies and/or equipment up to a maximum of 50 pounds
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $30,000.00 per year
Expected hours: No less than 25 per week
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Ability to Commute:
- Vernon Rockville, CT 06066 (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Vernon Rockville, CT 06066: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
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