Executive Director

Main Street Arts, Inc.; Village of Clifton Springs (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vacation/Holidays

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Main Street Arts, Inc. in Clifton Springs seeks an Executive Director to provide leadership, strategic vision, and oversee a broad arts program.

The role focuses on advancing the organization’s mission, cultivating patrons and donors, and representing the arts in the community locally and regionally. The Executive Director will supervise staff and volunteers, manage budgets and fundraising campaigns, coordinate communications, and build partnerships with schools, cultural institutions, and local

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience working in the Arts and with nonprofit organizations.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, ability to implement mission and vision.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the organization’s mission is fulfilled through dynamic arts programming and strategic community outreach, locally and regionally.
• Build the organization’s reputation through active, visible presence in the community locally and regionally.
• Work closely with other professional, civic and private organizations as opportunities arise.
• Determine the effectiveness of programming through continued evaluation on the impact of the organization’s current programs.
• Oversee website updates.
• Motivate, supervise, and direct staff in the performance of their duties.
• Conduct employee evaluations.
• Make salary, hiring, and other employment decisions in consultation with the Board of Directors.
• Identify and pursue sources of funding for the organization.
• Supervise freelance grant writer.
• Design project-specific fundraising campaigns.
• Cultivate individual and corporate sponsors.
• Write, design, and coordinate annual appeal.
• Host fundraising events and donor opportunities.
• Actively request and seek donations.
• Coordinate grant reporting.
• Maintain regular contact with the press, public, and individuals through various channels of communication, including: press releases, annual appeals, and thank you letters to individual donors and corporate sponsors.
• Seek out and accept invitations for speaking to community groups, local schools and universities regarding the arts, the organization, and the organization’s role in the community.
• Coordinate Payroll.
• Accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• Coordinate Bookkeeping and Accounting.
• Responsible for scheduling of programs, assigning project tasks, ordering of supplies, ensuring project timelines run according to schedule and key deadlines are met.
• Maintain budgets for active grants.
• Work with a web developer on the maintenance of the organization’s website.
• Develop timelines for marketing and promotion campaigns and components.
• Marketing and promotion of the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

The Executive Director provides leadership, organizational vision, and fulfills the mission of Main Street Arts by implementing and overseeing a dynamic range of arts programming. The Executive Director will cultivate meaningful relationships with gallery patrons and donors, artists, community members, and will maintain relationships with other cultural and educational institutions within the region. The Executive Director will represent the organization and its mission in the community—locally, regionally, and beyond.

QUALIFICATIONS

• • Bachelor’s degree in required; Master’s degree preferred.
  • Experience working in the Arts and with nonprofit organizations.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills, ability to implement mission and vision.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Organization Mission and Strategy

• • Ensure that the organization’s mission is fulfilled through dynamic arts programming and strategic community outreach, locally and regionally.
  • Build the organization’s reputation through active, visible presence in the community locally and regionally.
  • Work closely with other professional, civic and private organizations as opportunities arise.
  • Determine the effectiveness of programming through continued evaluation on the impact of the organization’s current programs.
  • Oversee website updates.

Staff culture and performance (four employees)

• Work closely with the Curator
  • Motivate, supervise, and direct staff in the performance of their duties.
  • Conduct employee evaluations.
  • Make salary, hiring, and other employment decisions in consultation with the Board of Directors.

Resource development

• • Identify and pursue sources of funding for the organization.
  • Supervise freelance grant writer.
  • Design project-specific fundraising campaigns.
  • Cultivate individual and corporate sponsors.
  • Write, design, and coordinate annual appeal.
  • Host fundraising events and donor opportunities.
  • Actively request and seek donations.
  • Coordinate grant reporting.

Communications and outreach

• • Maintain regular contact with the press, public, and individuals through various channels of communication, including: press releases, annual appeals, and thank you letters to individual donors and corporate sponsors.
  • Seek out and accept invitations for speaking to community groups, local schools and universities regarding the arts, the organization, and the organization’s role in the community.

Administrative

• • Coordinate Payroll.
  • Accounts receivable and accounts payable.
  • Coordinate Bookkeeping and Accounting.

Program/project management

• • Responsible for scheduling of programs, assigning project tasks, ordering of supplies, ensuring project timelines run according to schedule and key deadlines are met.
  • Maintain budgets for active grants.
  • Work with a web developer on the maintenance of the organization’s website.
  • Develop timelines for marketing and promotion campaigns and components.
  • Marketing and promotion of the organization.

Hours: This position is Tuesday–Saturday

Main Street Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Salary: $45,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vacation/Holidays
• Relocation assistance

Work Location: In person