COMPANY MANAGER

Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT); Ottawa; On-site; CAD 66,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Arts Centre in Ottawa is seeking a Company Manager for English Theatre. You will be the key liaison with visiting artists, handling travel, housing and welfare, and managing related administrative duties.

Reporting to the Senior Producer, you will track budgets, arrange immigration, organize artist orientation, and coordinate events. This role requires regular evening/weekend hours and strong English communication skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years Project Management, Festival Management, or Event Management experience.
• Experience in producing, production, stage management or related theatre work; familiarity with the Canadian Theatre Agreement preferred.
• Experience with unionized staff is an asset.
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated initiative and sound judgment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Creative mindset and ability to support artists and producers.
• Excellent English language skills; basic French an asset.

Responsibilities

• Oversees Artist Management: travel, housing, welfare for ET artists visiting NAC; manages logistics and schedules.
• Books transportation, coordinates housing, ensures immigration requirements are met, and handles onsite access arrangements.
• Maintains Artist Guide, coordinates meet & greet events, processes ticket requests, and acts as on-call health support.
• Produces budget tracking for travel, accommodation and hospitality; assists in issue resolution with producing team.
• Supports departmental events and other duties related to live theatre administration.
• Includes regular evening and weekend hours to reflect theatre schedules.

Skills

Project Management

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Prioritization

Initiative

Teamwork

Creative thinking

Desired leadership

Tools

Microsoft 365

Teams

Adobe CS

Job description

Company Overview

Competition number: J0926-0520

Department: English Theatre

Status: Full-Time continuing

Hours: Monday to Friday (35 hours per week), frequent evening and weekend work, Occasional work on holidays.

Annual/hourly salary: $66,300– $82,900 (position with benefits and pension plan)

Closing date: October 18, 2026

Anticipated start date: As soon as possible

Introducing the National Arts Centre

The National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts. The NAC presents, creates, produces, and co-produces performing arts programming in various streams – the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre, and Popular Music and Variety – and nurtures the next generation of audiences and artists from across Canada. The NAC is located in the National Capital Region on the unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation.

At the National Arts Centre, we believe the performing arts are vital to the human experience. A house of dreams for the Canadian performing arts, we work with artists and arts organizations from across this land to revitalize our sector.

Curious to learn more? Read our 2023-2026 Strategic Plan, The Journey Ahead.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism and Accessibility

We are on a journey, committed to ensuring that equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, anti-racism and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples will guide our actions.

The NAC welcomes applications fromcandidates who can help us meet our vision, and contribute to the diversity oflived experiences, perspectives, and approaches.When you join the NAC, you will be part of an inclusivecommunity working hard to dismantle barriers to employees’well-being, access, potential, and success. The NAC actively seeks candidates who identify as women, Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour (IBPoC), members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and peoplewith disabilities. We encourage you to self-identify in the recruitment process.

Job Description

Key activities

Reporting to the Senior Producer, the Company Manager is English Theatre’s key liaison with the artists it engages. The Company Manager is responsible for travel, housing and general welfare for all artists visiting the National Arts Centre, as well as key administrative duties.

Artist Management

• Manages the general health, welfare, and comfort of the company of English Theatre (ET) artists engaged or hosted by the National Arts Centre (NAC);
• Books all artist transportation, balancing necessary scheduling requirements with securing lowest possible travel expense;
• Oversees and coordinates housing for all artists at sponsor hotel in Ottawa, and occasionally in other cities;
• Ensures all immigration requirements are met for artists traveling from outside of Canada;
• Arranges backstage access cards for personnel in each production; arranges set-up of Stage Management offices;
• General Artist hospitality including welcome packages, artist orientation, snack table, callboard, etc.;
• Maintains and updates Artist Guide;
• Arranges “meet & greet” events between visiting companies and ET staff;
• Processes company ticket requests;
• Acts as on-call responder for any routine or unexpected artist health matters;
• Issues the Who/What/Where information sheet in the ET season and circulates to all the relevant internal departments.

Producing Support

• Maintains comprehensive knowledge of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, supporting the producing team in the determination of the final interpretation of the Agreement;
• Provides preliminary response to artists’ issues as they arise, and immediately reporting any such incidents to the producing team;
• Tracks travel, accommodation, and hospitality budgets, providing forecasts to producing team on an as-required basis;
• Participates in issue resolution, with producing team and Managing Director, as required;
• Supports departmental events such as Affinity Group Nights on a limited, as required and pro rata basis with other ET staff members, with clear participation expectations established in advance;
• Other duties commensurate with the administration of live theatre as assigned;
• This position requires regular evening and weekend hours reflective of the dynamic schedule of working at a theatre.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years Project Management, Festival Management, or Event Management experience is required;
• Experience in producing, production, stage management or other aspect of professional theatre, including familiarity with the Canadian Theatre Agreement is preferred;
• Experience working with unionized staff is an asset;
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal skills required;
• Ability to evaluate and manage multiple priorities, and adapt quickly to a fast-paced, complex work environment;
• Demonstrating initiative and sound judgment;
• Ability work independently and as part of a team;
• Strong sense for creative processes, and ability to anticipate and support the needs of artists and producers;

Proficiency with Microsoft 365, Teams and Adobe CS;

• Excellent English language skills required, basic communication in French is an asset.

Who Can Apply

Persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens residing abroad. Preference will be given to Canadian citizens.

As part of NAC’s interview process, in-person interviews may be required. Please ensure to have the most up-to-date information on your résumé including your current email address.

The National Arts Centre (NAC) is committed to inclusive employee recruitment and selection. The NAC welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. If you require accommodation during the selection process, please inform us as soon as possible and we will make every effort to fulfill your accommodation request.

The successful candidate will be required to provide the original or a certified true copy of their education credentials as appropriate, along with proof of a valid Background Check as a condition of employment.

While we appreciate all applications, only those selected for an interview will be contacted by us.