General Manager
Company: Cleveland Public Theatre
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 2, 2024
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Job Description:
Cleveland Public Theatre is Hiring a General Manager Cleveland
Public Theatre (CPT) is hiring a General Manager (GM) which is a
leadership role on the CPT staff and will make a meaningful
contribution to life at CPT and its success. For the appropriate
candidate, this role could evolve into a Managing Director role.
Review of candidates will begin immediately. To apply for the
position, send an email to Raymond Bobgan at rbobgan@cptonline.org.
Subject line should read: YOUR LAST NAME, General Manager. Your
email should include two attachments: a resume and a two-page cover
letter giving examples of work that illustrate the experience
required in the description and explaining why you are interested
in this position. We will be reviewing candidates immediately and
will close the search on February 9, 2024. No phone calls, please.
CPT is hiring its first General Manager in eighteen years, and as a
result is recharacterizing and broadening the role as it currently
exists. CPT has a history of defining positions around the
strengths of the best candidates and current staffing. The
following job description acts as a guideline for CPT's search
process, but it will evolve based on the skills and experience of
the finalist. The GM reports to and collaborates with the Executive
Artistic Director for the implementation of CPT's mission and
programs. The GM works collaboratively with other leadership staff
to create forward-thinking modes of operation and action steps to
achieve a sustainable future. - As a mid-size theatre, CPT requires
that leadership staff not only supervise employees, but also
perform tasks in a "hands-on" manner. The GM will supervise
managers or staff of some or all the following departments: Front
of House, Facilities, Financial Management, Human Resources, and
Audience Engagement/Marketing. This role has day-to-day
responsibility for all or some of the following: artist contracts,
vendor management, hiring and human resources, information
technology, work environment and office operations. Details follow
below. This role will have a strong partnership with the Director
of Finance and be involved in the budgeting process. The GM will
represent CPT at meetings and discussions with certain external
organizations. This role will have the opportunity to make
significant changes to processes and develop new practices at the
organization after completing one year in the position. CPT is
primarily interested in candidates with at least six years of
theatre administration experience. CPT will also consider
exceptional candidates with less or different experience who may be
well positioned to make a leap forward. CPT sees this hire as a
step in restructuring the organization's staff. For the appropriate
candidate, this role could evolve into a Managing Director role in
the future. Salary range for this position is $60k to $70k based on
work experience and determined range of responsibilities. Using the
MIT Living Wage Calculator , this salary range is equivalent to
$77k-$91k in major job markets like New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, and Atlanta. Benefits include medical insurance, paid
time off and more. (Benefit details listed below.) CPT is looking
to fill this position by April 2, 2024. About Cleveland Public
Theatre CPT's mission is to raise consciousness and nurture
compassion through groundbreaking performances and life-changing
education programs. We are serious about "groundbreaking" and
"life-changing" and espouse innovative and unique views about
programming compared to the field. - CPT Executive Artistic
Director Raymond Bobgan has been in the role for 18 years and with
Director of Finance Denis Griesmer (formerly also General Manager)
has tripled the size of the organization. During that time, Bobgan
reinvented existing programs and innovated new community-based
programs. Bobgan's leadership has been recognized both within and
outside the field at local, state, and national levels. - CPT's
annual theatrical season features between 6-10 adventurous
professional productions (mostly world premieres) a robust series
of new play development programs that support writers and devisers
at multiple points in the creative process. CPT is home to three
internal companies: Teatro P--blico de Cleveland, Masrah Cleveland
Al-Arabi, and the Cleveland CORE Ensemble (a BIPOC majority
ensemble led by Bobgan). CPT produces two large community events a
year, D--a de Muertos and Station Hope. CPT also hosts Pandemonium,
our annual fundraiser that features hundreds of artists across a
dozen and half stages, grossing over $400k annually. CPT's
acclaimed education programs engage communities in devising new
works that speak to contemporary issues and empower participants to
work for positive change in our community. These programs serve
hundreds of youths and their families who live in public housing,
offer free programs for Cleveland youth, engage teenagers in a
robust job training summer program, and engage formerly homeless
adults in treatment for addiction through theatre creation. - CPT
is recognized as one of the Midwest's most progressive and
innovative performing arts institutions that centers social
concerns as well as innovative performances and plays a leadership
role in the field both through its modeling of change and community
connection, and through Raymond's leadership service for Theatre
Communications Group and The National New Play Network. - Most CPT
artists, staff, and board are people who identify as Black,
Indigenous, and People of Color. CPT has a long history of
producing work by mostly BIPOC theatre creators. - CPT has expenses
of $2.8M a year with twenty-five full-time employees, eighty plus
part-time and seasonal employees, and hundreds of independent
contractors. CPT owns and operates nearly 75,000 square feet of
facilities which include three buildings built between 1910 and
1930. The facility includes two flexible-seating theatres, a
chapel, a church social hall, classrooms, rehearsal spaces, a scene
shop, offices and support spaces. In the last decade, CPT has made
significant progress improving accessibility and functionality of
the buildings. CPT is developing a capital campaign to address its
remaining accessibility concerns and continue to modernize the
campus for artists and patrons.
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