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The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC) seeks permanent part-time Gallery Guards, reporting to the Patron Services Coordinator.

Departmental Overview: Frontline Department

The Frontline Dept is a division of the Operations Department and is responsible for
devising and executing public relations, marketing, and advertising strategies to
promote all exhibitions, performances, and events programmed by the Contemporary
Arts Center New Orleans.

Gallery Guards main responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

● Keep the works of art safe and secure.
● Prompt for all shifts and works well with the gallery team.
● Ensure the protection of assigned post by walking and/or standing during public
hours.
● Help keep staff, visitors, and students safe by reporting potential safety violations
immediately.
● Interact with visitors by providing general information in a pleasant fashion.
● Turn galleries on and off each day, as instructed.
● Maintain a neat appearance and follow a professional dress code.
● Supports the guiding principles of the position and the Institution.
Relationships:
Reports to Patron Services Coordinator
Works closely with External Affairs, Visual Arts and Patron Services Coordinator
Qualifications:
● Demonstrated interest in the visual arts; previous experience working in a
cultural institution preferred
● Experience safeguarding original works of art preferred.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume addressing both your interest in the CAC, and your qualifications for this position, and a complete resume to dforcell@cacno.org.

Salary: $12 / hour
Part-time (2 or more shifts per week required)

CAC New Orleans is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an
equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

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The Contemporary Arts Center seeks an Operations and Grants Manager. In the performance of their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to conform to the following:

● Perform quality work within deadlines, with or without supervision
Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers
● Work effectively as a team contributor on all tasks, projects and assignments
● Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations
● Work conscientiously, respectfully, and with awareness of issues of equity and disparity as they affect our work environment, creative field, and city.

Position Purpose: The Operations Manager creates and maintains efficient, systematic and shared practices that best support organizational and staff operations, and good governance of the Board of Trustees. The Operations Manager is responsible for grant management including the development of grant applications and administration and compliance of awarded grants. The Operations Manager helps coordinate activities of the Board of Trustees and its committees as well as supporting the Executive Director in their administrative duties.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks:
Administration and Management Systems

● Design systems, tools, policies, and procedures that support a creative, inclusive, operationally transitioning, and productive environment.
● Collaborate with staff on the development and implementation of new workflow processes and procedures.
● Oversees, updates and maintains online management systems including calendars, Google Suite, shared drives, department, and organizational calendars, and server archives.
● Maintain and update operational and departmental policies, compliance documents, manuals, and planning tools.
● Supports weekly department and staff meetings with agenda and minutes, assistance with work plans and calendars, and helps the Executive Director in preparing documents for staff meetings and retreats.
● Supports department planning processes in early stages to ensure comprehensive and effective use of planning tools.
● Support IT as it serves staff and supervision of office equipment and supplies.
● Support staff in financial reporting through attention to accounting and class functions for CAC OPERATIONS MANAGER restricted and departmental funds.
● Fields all general correspondence through mail, email, phone, + voicemail in coordination with frontline.

Trustee and Committee Administration
● Manages the Director’s communication with the Board of Trustees and Board Committees.
● Manages scheduling, communications, meeting preparation, and minutes related to the Board of Trustees and Board Committees.
● Participate in board management including generating reports and proposals.

Grant Management
● Research grants through collaboration with the programming team, database research, and other fact-finding actions.
● Maintains grant schedule, and all application and reporting deadlines.
● Compiles, maintains and shares with staff all information for the application and reporting process.
● Oversees drafts and compiles application materials, maintaining all budgets and compliance documents.
● Ensures grant is submitted on time and within application parameters with support from the Executive Director, programming and development departments.
● Completes all documents, forms, or reports required by the grant.
● Coordinates the monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects that are funded by grants.
● Develops and maintains master files on grants and paperwork connected to programs funded by grants.
● Serves as the primary contact listed for most grants to ensure consistent correspondence, tracking, filing, and reporting

Executive Director Support
● Partner with ED in essential internal organizational activities (design of staff systems and procedures, administration, and organizational planning).
● Plans and books Director and CEO’s business travel
● Accounts for Director and CEO’s entertainment and travel expenses and manage reimbursements from funders as needed.
● Prepares documents and reports and handles other duties as assigned.

Front Line Operations:
● Design, support, supervise all frontline operations, including facility and frontline personnel safety and security, entryway hospitality and wayfinding, front desk operations, and emergency preparedness among frontline staff.
● Hires, trains, on-boards, schedules, and supervises all frontline staff, gallery attendants, and house manager.

Qualities and experiences valued in candidates and as a part of our staff:
● Highly organized, detail oriented, system thinker who is able to manage multiple strategic projects and timelines at once. Is comfortable working independently and collaboratively with precision and accountability.
● Great interpersonal and leadership skills, enjoys collaboration and ideation, but also manages the timeliness of processes with definative workflows. Willing and capable of leading staff in operational practices and procedures.
● Strong knowledge of best non-profit and board governance practices, especially with an equity lens.
● Familiarity and curiosity with contemporary art and artists.
● Supportive of social justice, racial equity, and artists engaging with social, cultural, civic, practices. Willing to engage in respectful and collegial manner with fellow staff members about these issues.

Qualifications:

1. Required Education and Experience

a. Bachelors

b. 4 years of experience in an administrative position2. Preferred Education and Experience a. Master’s Degree in Arts/Non-Profit Administration

Competencies:

1. Detail oriented

2. Systematic

3. Flexibility

4. Communication Proficiency

5. Stress Management/Composure.

6. Team Oriented, Independent worker.

7. Time Management.8. Technical Capacity.

Travel: No travel is expected for this position

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands: This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

This is a full-time position, reporting to the Executive Director and plays an important role in cross-department leadership. The CAC offers a comprehensive healthcare and benefits package, 403(b) with match, and salary range $38k-$48k commensurate with experience and other factors, including pay equity across the organization.

About the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans: The CAC is a multidisciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the art of our time. It’s 10,000+ sq ft of dedicated gallery space, black box theater, warehouse, and auxiliary spaces are used for the purpose of presenting and producing curated exhibitions, performances and programs by local, regional, national, and international artists. Founded in 1977 as part of a national alternative arts space movement, the CAC is the only dedicated contemporary, multidisciplinary arts space in New Orleans. By supporting dynamic and groundbreaking artistic voices across disciplines we aim to be a touchstone for contemporary art in the region and a partner in conversations about art and equity.

The Contemporary Arts Center values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages those whose creative and critical interests in this position emerge from the lived experiences of more marginalized communities to apply. This includes women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), LGBTQ individuals, transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex people, people with disabilities, members of ethnic communities, foreign-born residents and immigrants, and formerly incarcerated. The Contemporary Arts Center is an equal opportunity employer. In alignment with the CAC’s dedication to creating an arts sector rooted in justice, we are committed to ensuring a workplace free of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, classism, or other bias. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, mental of phyical disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $38,000.00 - $48,000.00 per year

Schedule: 8 hour shift
Education:
Bachelor's (Required)
Experience:
Administrative: 4 years (Required)
Work Location: One location

How to Apply: Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume via the following Indeed link: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob...

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The Contemporary Arts Center seeks a Development Director. In the performance of their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to conform to the following:

● Perform quality work within deadlines, with or without supervision
Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers
● Work effectively as a team contributor on all tasks, projects and assignments
● Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations
● Work conscientiously, respectfully, and with awareness of issues of equity and disparity as they affect our work environment, creative field, and city.

Position Purpose:

The Development Director advances a vision for financial growth and donor investment in service to the organization’s mission. The Development Director creates and implements a strategic framework for donor cultivation, fundraising campaigns, membership, corporate giving and events-based fundraising for all levels of organizational contribution. The Development Director engages with the organization's top donors and alongside the Executive Director serves as the face of the CAC’s donor development and fundraising efforts.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks
Donor Strategy and Cultivation

Develop and implement strategy and planning for annual and large gift development campaigns in line with organizational strategy and programming needs. Develop the strategy, planning, and execution of donor cultivation and prospecting. Design and pursue membership goals for annual membership, affinity giving funds, and board giving.

● Cultivate relationships with the organizations largest donors, conduct donor prospecting and new donor cultivation. Directly pursues new, high dollar gifts.
● Prepare and conduct personal funding requests to donors.
● Media savvy and able to partner with Communications Department on digital and institutional marketing campaigns that service fund development.
● Work in close partnership with the Board Development Committee to set the agenda and achieve annual fundraising goals. Provide regular reports to the Executive Director and Development Committee.
● Work in close partnership with the Executive Director, Curator, and Program Director to engage long time donors and cultivate new donors.

Donor Campaigns

●Plans and executes all necessary aspects of development campaigns including annual appeals, membership, affinity giving and large gift campaigns, as well as specific program related solicitations.
●Serve as the primary point of engagement alongside the Executive Director for all donors.
●Design and implement new multi-year, large gift campaigns in collaboration with the Executive Director and coordination with all staff.
● Creatively design donor engagement activities that enhance donor experience and connect patrons closer to art and artists.
●Promote diversity and equity in all donor development efforts.

Corporate Giving

●Develop strategy and planning for corporate giving as related to fundraising events and annual programming.
● Cultivate strategic partnerships with corporate entities.
● Partner with Events and Communications Departments to create vip level access for sponsors.

Fundraising Events:

● Creatively design the creation and direction for fundraising events, including budgeting and event details.
● Coordinates with Communications, Events, and Programming Departments on budgeting, goal-setting, creation and overall direction for fundraising events.
● Oversees the development of invitation lists, special donor initiatives, VIP access and and other targeted development strategies.
● Reports on the income and expenditure of events.

Administrative Duties

● Develops the organization's annual development department budget, including forecasting and fundraising goals, and provides regular reporting toward success at reaching targets.
● Strengthens systems for donor tracking and prospecting, including regular tracking of donor interactions and wealth analysis.
● Ensures effective gift processing, donor acknowledgement, renewals, and benefits management throughout the year and in compliance with non-profit governance.
● Represents the CAC at major events, performances, exhibitions, and community events to increase membership and fundraising presence.
● Manages Development Department personnel and direct reports, and serves as an advocate for the needs of the department.
●All other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

1. Required Education and Experience

a. Bachelor’s Degree in Business or a Related Field

b. 5 years of applicable experience

2. Preferred Education and Experience a. Master’s Degree in Business or Fine Arts

Qualities:

1. Charismatic, outgoing, personable, warm, communicative

2. Strong understanding of contemporary art and social impact of arts and ability to communicate with others about its values

3. Integrity around donor relations and stewardship

4. Strategically minded, adaptable, relationship-centered

5. Experience in event planning and VIP engagement, experience with corporate donors a plus

6. Media savvy and design focused

Required Skills & Abilities

1. Proficiency in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Excel/Sheets

2. Altru Donor Database, wealth analysis, and prospecting software

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. Some potential travel.

Physical Demands:

This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

This is a full-time position, reporting to the Executive Director and plays an important role in cross-department leadership. The CAC offers a comprehensive and fully covered healthcare and benefits package, 403(b) with match, and salary range $55k-$75k commensurate with experience and other factors, including pay equity across the organization.

About the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans: The CAC is a multidisciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the art of our time. It’s 10,000+ sq ft of dedicated gallery space, black box theater, warehouse, and auxiliary spaces are used for the purpose of presenting and producing curated exhibitions, performances and programs by local, regional, national, and international artists. Founded in 1977 as part of a national alternative arts space movement, the CAC is the only dedicated contemporary, multidisciplinary arts space in New Orleans. By supporting dynamic and groundbreaking artistic voices across disciplines we aim to be a touchstone for contemporary art in the region and a partner in conversations about art and equity.

The Contemporary Arts Center values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages those whose creative and critical interests in this position emerge from the lived experiences of more marginalized communities to apply. This includes women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), LGBTQ individuals, transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex people, people with disabilities, members of ethnic communities, foreign-born residents and immigrants, and formerly incarcerated. The Contemporary Arts Center is an equal opportunity employer. In alignment with the CAC’s dedication to creating an arts sector rooted in justice, we are committed to ensuring a workplace free of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, classism, or other bias. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, mental of phyical disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

Salary: $55,000 - $75,000 a year

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule: 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:
New Orleans, LA 70130: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Education:
Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:
Applicable: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: One location

How to Apply: Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume via the following Indeed Link: https://www.indeed.com/job/dev...