Music & Performing Arts Director

Bring your passion for music and performing arts to Urban Ventures. Urban Ventures has had a wonderful music program for many years. We're looking towards the future and the longer-range vision to significantly expand the program, where participants can develop and be recognized for their talent in the arts.

Here's what you will bring:

• At least 3 years of general management experience is required; leadership for a music or art program is preferred
• Previous budgetary responsibility
• Experience developing and being accountable to program goals, along with measurement, evaluation, and reporting on results
• Commitment to diversity and organizational capacity-building
• Action-oriented — embraces change and challenges
• Must have at least two years of postsecondary education; Bachelor’s degree preferred

Here's what you will do:

• Track record of high-accountability and goal-orientation – the ability to make good decisions through a combination of data-driven analysis, personal experience, and wise judgment; high level of business acumen including successful revenue and expense management; the experience to balance the delivery of high-quality program services against the reality of limited budgets
• Using our “state of the art” recording studio, participants should be given the opportunity for creative expression by learning the technical skills of music writing and the technical skills behind studio engineering. The director is expected to develop a short-term plan to expand the number of participants served through existing offerings as well as various pilot offerings.
• Cross-sector collaboration — experience formalizing partnerships that bring together faith-based and non-faith-based organizations to achieve greater impact
• Good written and verbal communication skills; bilingual Spanish/English preferred
• Faith and values alignment – passion for integrating biblical principles in work and family life; able to align with and judiciously articulate the mission and values of Urban Ventures
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Managing day to day schedules for vendors/contractors/seasonal staff/volunteers

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
• Light to moderate lifting may be required
• Regular, predictable attendance is required

Travel:

• Regular travel to work functions

Urban Ventures is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with the mission to educate children, strengthen their families, and build a healthy community. We partner with families in some the most under-resourced neighborhoods of south Minneapolis with one overarching goal-to send every youth to college or some form of post-secondary education. Urban Ventures is committed to providing a workplace which promotes diversity and inclusion