Deadline to apply: July 21st, 2024

START DATE: August 15th 2024

HOURS AND PAY: $30/hour, 20 hours/week, adding up to a $31,200 yearly salary. Permanent part-time.

*Please note that candidates should reside in Greater Vancouver or be willing to relocate to Greater Vancouver.*

The frank theatre company is seeking a Managing Producer to collaborate with our Artistic & Executive Director and Artistic Producer, as we facilitate the development, production and presentation of innovative queer performance.

COMPANY PROFILE

About the frank theatre:

Established in 1996, the frank is the oldest professional queer theatre company based on the occupied, stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, colonially called Vancouver, BC, Canada. We play a crucial role in this city’s theatre ecology: we are one of few theatre organizations in the country led by a genderqueer, immigrant woman of colour, and we collaborate with a large community of LGBTQ2S artists and arts workers. Through collective approaches, we create work that challenges Western, Eurocentric and Colonial aesthetics and storytelling. We subvert these methods by engaging collaborators whose practices are rooted in different disciplines, cultures, abilities, and languages. We strive towards a utopian world free of prejudices and assumptions. We believe in the power of storytelling to show the nuances and complexities of human experiences, and we pursue this vision through award-winning productions and community-based activities. We explore what it means to be queer, and the place of queer individuals in society, by creating, developing, producing and presenting theatrical work.

Core Values:

-Prioritizing artists underrepresented within queer theatre (female, trans, Black, Indigenous, racialized, immigrant, disabled and neurodivergent artists.)

-Queering traditional theatre creation through interdisciplinary and media arts approaches

-Fostering the next generation of queer artists through mentorship

-Privileging process over product

-Adapting to the individual needs of participants

-Holding space for differences

-Decentralizing power through horizontal collaboration

Programming:

-Mainstage Productions: through this stream of our programming, we support innovative, transcultural performances by established queer artists in our community.

-Youth Program Telling It Bent is our writing workshop for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit BC youth (ages 14 to 25). It provides emerging writers with the opportunity to gain skills, learn decolonial approaches to creation, meet other queer artists, and explore different styles of writing.

-Co-Productions and Presentations: we provide development support, artist fees, as well as marketing and community outreach to emerging and mid-career queer artists.

-Community-Engaged Program: we engage queer community members and artists with a specific lived experience to collectively create a performance, using verbatim, devised and interdisciplinary approaches. Our first iteration engaged queer immigrants and refugees, culminating in the theatre-film hybrid “Be-Longing.”

How We Work:

Working out of a shared office space at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St.), the frank is a people-centered organization that prioritizes the well-being and growth of our staff, artists and arts workers. We are currently working both remotely from home and from the office. This position is expected to work 2 - 3 days a week in our office, including one in-person weekly staff meeting.

In our programming and operations, we strive for a culture of trust, safety, and accountability, where healthy conflict exists. We actively challenge white supremacist cultural characteristics, as articulated by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones in White supremacy culture. This includes a commitment to:

• Complexity over either/or thinking

• Community over individualism

• Collaboration over competition

• Power sharing over power hoarding

• Transformational relations instead of transactional relationships

• Appreciation over perfectionism

• Real equity over equity washing

• Self and community care instead of over working

• Vulnerability over defensiveness

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Reporting to the Artistic & Executive Director, the Managing Producer’s responsibilities include financial and administrative management, coordinating the development of strategic planning and policy making, reporting and organizing, as well as production and grant support.

We are looking for a passionate individual who enjoys learning, exchanging and growing. We believe complex conversations can be transformative. We are seeking a collaborator who appreciates nuance and believes in empathy.

Benefits:

• Flexible hours

• Extended Medical Benefits

• Three weeks paid vacation after 6 months probation period

• As the company continues to grow, there will be room for this position to expand from part-time to full-time.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience working in arts administration or operations

• Strong organization, communication and time management skills

• Demonstrated grant writing experience

• Comfortability with Google Drive, Word and Excel

• Strong knowledge of LGBTQ2S+ community, queer inclusivity, justice, equity, anti-racism and anti-opression.

• Self-motivated: initiates tasks and assumes personal responsibility for achieving outcomes

• Independent: works effectively with little guidance

• Dependable, responsible and accountable.

• Seeks opportunities to improve general work processes, methods and systems

• Collaborative: listens to and values others’ needs, suggestions and feedback.

• Self-aware: articulates their needs, offers suggestions and feedback.

Assets:

• Experience in administration or production of theatre

• Knowledge of the local theatre, film, media and/or arts communities

• Lived experience of being LGBTQ2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual/pansexual, trans, non-binary, queer, Two Spirit, asexual/demisexual, and/or intersex)

• Driver’s License

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial Management

• Budget management

• Creation of project and operating budgets

• Ensuring the organization stays on track financially within projects

• Updating budgets to reflect changes and reports from bookkeeper

• Managing invoices and outgoing payments to artists, staff and contract workers

• Processing, filing, and depositing revenue (donations, grants, cash sales)

• Maintain working relationship with Bookkeeper including monthly financial review housekeeping items (e.g., sourcing missing documents, clarifying payments)

• Supporting year end financials, including annual review engagement

• Updating company’s financial and statistical reports in CADAC

• Preparing donation requests, tax receipts, and acknowledgements

• With the Artistic & Executive Director and Board of Directors, revising and implementing fundraising plans

• Researching and seeking out new revenue generating opportunities, including donors

Operational Administration

• Leading administrative activities and reporting to the Artistic Director and Artistic Producer

• Managing rental agreements for office, storage, as well as rehearsal and production venues

• Renewing annual insurance and memberships

• Managing company calendar and meetings:

• Managing administrative deadlines

• Scheduling staff and board meetings

• Creating meeting agendas

• Taking meeting minutes

• Collaborating with the Artistic Director and Artistic Producer on company strategic goals and planning

• Coordinating the development of company policies around Human Resources and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in collaboration with the Artistic Director and board.

• Organizational board relations (preparing agendas, scheduling meetings, presenting the financial report, organizing the AGM)

• C-Space (Progress Lab 1422) board relations (2-10 hours/month) including attending meetings, joining committees, and completing action items as needed

• Assisting with producing duties on projects, as mutually delegated between Managing Producer and Artistic Producer. May include: assisting with event set-up, driving hospitality materials to site, booking flights and accommodations for out-of-town artists etc.

• Managing memberships payments and paperwork (e.g., BC Alliance, BC societies)

Grant Support

• Preparing budgets and support documents for applications

• Collaborating on the writing of operating and project grants with the Artistic Producer

• Organizing, Reporting and Filing:

• Organizing company documents in cloud storage and physical office (including mail)

• Digitizing paper documents

• Digital report filing, including ticket sales reports and monthly donor lists

We strongly encourage submissions from QTBIPOC (Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous People of Colour) applicants, queer applicants, applicants of diverse ages, as well as applicants who identify as neuro-divergent or disabled.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Our shared office space is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, as there is a set of stairs leading up to the office and no elevator. Our office has gender-neutral washrooms. 

We strive to make this position accessible through the following accommodations:

• Flexibility around timing and locations of meetings, options for virtual sessions

• Attention to time of day and duration of work

• On-going open dialogue around access needs and capacity to prevent overwork.

• We are happy to co-create accessible working environments. There’s no need to explain requests or share conditions or diagnoses. Requests will be treated confidentially, or are welcome as part of our living community agreements. 

HOW TO SUBMIT:

To apply, please email your resume and letter of interest to Artistic Director Fay Nass at fay@thefranktheatre.com, and CC Associate Producer Anais West at anais@thefranktheatre.com.