Job (Calgary): Assistant Producer – Trickster Theatre

Theatre Alberta; Calgary; On-site; CAD 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Trickster Theatre in Calgary seeks an Assistant Producer to partner with the Producing Director on school residencies and artist development projects. You will organize timelines, budgets, and schedules, coordinating artists and community elements for one-week residencies across Alberta.

The role involves coordinating development schedules, testing cycles, and reporting while supporting staffing, sales, fundraising, and technical operations. Hybrid work with office-based duties is possible.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an arts producer or production stage manager.
• Very organized and detail oriented.
• Experience with Google Workspace, Salesforce, Calendly and Adobe Creative Suite.

Responsibilities

• Organize school residencies: create timelines, track budgets, coordinate artists and community elements.
• Support development projects: manage schedules, timelines, budgets and artist communications.
• Assist with staffing, reporting and statistics for projects.
• Support sales, fundraising and technical operations as needed.

Skills

Arts producer

Production stage manager

Organizational skills

Tools

Google Workspace

Salesforce

Calendly

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

The Virgin Trial – Alberta Theatre Projects The Virgin Trial Alberta Theatre Projects

Directed by: Glynis Leyshon
Written by: Kate Hennig
Actors Pictured: Nigel Shawn Williams, Jamie Konchak, Emma Houghton, Conrad Belau & Sarah Orenstein
Set Design: Scott Reid.
Lighting Design: David Fraser
Costume Design: Heather Moore
Photo: Benjamin Laird

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Job (Calgary): Assistant Producer – Trickster Theatre

This is a full time, 40 hour per week position, for 1 year, with the likely possibility of multi-year renewal. Start time – July 15, 2022.

The Assistant Producer will be responsible for working with the Producing Director to organize all custom components of school residencies as well as manage all artist training and development projects. For our one-week school residencies, this will mean creating timelines, tracking budgets, organizing artists and community elements, scheduling equipment and supporting the development of thematic elements related to each custom project. For development projects, this will mean managing the development schedules and timelines, managing the testing cycles, tracking the budgets, keeping in touch with all of the artists working on the projects, preparing reports and stats, and assisting with staffing the projects. There may be elements of our sales, fundraising and technical operations that are also involved (in short, any aspect of the company that the Producing Director is involved in).

The position will report to the Producing Director.

The successful candidate will have at least 3 years of experience as an arts producer or production stage manager and will be very organized. Our company uses Google Workplace, Salesforce, Calendly and Adobe Creative Suite as our primary software. This position may be partly done from a home office, but most of the time the position will work out of our office in the NW of Calgary, as well as the Calgary based schools that we are working with.

Based on performance and experience, the hourly fees will be negotiated between $25-29 per hour plus 4% holiday pay and stat holidays. Trickster Theatre is not an Equity company.

Trickster is the largest children’s theatre company in Alberta and primarily delivers 1 week residency programs across Alberta. The company is also involved in online and live short term projects related to Global Issues, Storytelling and Science. Trickster was founded by the Producing Director in 1980 and receives funding from the Canada Council, AFA, CADA and various foundations and corporate funders.

Trickster had a very effective response to Covid and is now integrating a number of new programs into our regular offerings to schools. This position will be key to making those adaptations, as well as helping manage the training of an expanded artist team. We have a full season of residencies booked and this position will help manage these in cooperation with our Operations Manager.

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