Part-time Operations and Programs Manager

Maine Tasting Center; Lewiston (ME); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

LA Arts is seeking a part-time Operations and Programs Manager to support the organization’s mission of engaging and inspiring a vibrant community through arts and culture. The candidate should be skilled at managing multiple responsibilities to deepen the organization’s impact and achieve its goals.

The role emphasizes strengthening core operations, office and events management, volunteer engagement, and grant prospecting, writing, and reporting, while also serving as project manager for the

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Highly developed administrative, organizational, and project management skills.
• Experience establishing, maintaining, and improving workflows using collaborative platforms.

Responsibilities

• Oversee core operations including office and events management.
• Coordinate volunteer engagement and organizational communications and marketing.
• Prospect, write, and report on grants; ensure compliance.
• Lead the emergent Community Arts Initiative from design to implementation.

Skills

Office management

Events management

Project coordination

Communications & marketing

Volunteer engagement

Grant writing

Google Workspace

Monday.com

Tools

Google Workspace

Monday.com

Job description

LA Arts is seeking a part-time Operations and Programs Manager to support the organization’s mission of engaging and inspiring a vibrant community through arts and culture. The candidate should be skilled at managing multiple responsibilities to deepen the organization’s impact and achieve its goals.

Collaborating with the arts agency staff, and an active volunteer board, the Operations and Programs Manager will have primary responsibility for strengthening and overseeing core operations in the areas of office and events management, volunteer engagement and coordination, communications and marketing, and grant prospecting, writing, and reporting. They will also serve as project manager for the agency's emergent, multiyear Community Arts Initiative, supporting the project from its initial design phase through its implementation.

The Search Committee welcomes applicants with the following kinds of experience and qualifications.

EXPERIENCE (all or most of the following)

• Office and events management
• Project coordination and management
• Communications and marketing
• Volunteer engagement and coordination
• Grant prospecting, writing, and compliance
• Undertaking the above in the context of a small nonprofit organization

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including a record of building and maintaining positive relationships within an organization and among diverse stakeholders
• Highly developed and demonstrated administrative, organizational, and project management skills
• Experience establishing, maintaining, and improving systems and workflows; proficient in Google Workspace, Monday.com, and/or similar collaborative platforms
• Superb oral and written communications skills, including proven experience creating original, engaging, mission-forward content across traditional and emerging platforms, including print, digital, and social media
• Enthusiasm for working as a member of an organization that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Creativity, resourcefulness, technical savvy, and a willingness to learn new skills, while adapting to shifting needs and priorities

This is a part-time, hourly position (20+ hrs.) and the work schedule includes some variability, including the possibility of some remote hours; some weekend/evening hours are expected.

The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications starting 11/2/26.