Arts Programming Director

Description

Develops, implements, and evaluates all programming, strategizing, and scheduling of music, dance and theater productions. Maintains current and cultivates new relationships with established and emerging professional artists and their managements. Selects concert programs and has primary jurisdiction in negotiating contract fees and dates to be consistent with organization's mission and long-range plan. Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in music or other arts related field. Minimum five years of related experience. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.