Marketing & Development Manager

12 Jan 23 |

Job Type: Part-Time
Job Start Date: 01/04/2023
Location: 410 Jarvis St
City: Toronto ON
Hiring Organization Name: Dancemakers
Hiring Organization Description:

Dancemakers is becoming a decentralized community-led dance organization that focuses on the research and development of dance makers to deepen, revitalize, or transform their practice and form.

Through residencies and partnerships with other dance organizations, Dancemakers provides a range of resources to creators, working across genres of dance, seeking innovation in their practice towards the development of new performance works.

Curatorial decisions are currently made by guest curators selected by committees of dance practitioners to ensure that the broadest community of dancers and choreographers are being served.

Dancemakers engages with the public through a variety of activities aimed at illuminating dance practice and form through the creative process of the dance maker.

www.dancemakers.org

Hiring Organization Website: https://dancemakers.org

Job Description:

Call for Marketing and Development Manager at Dancemakers

Dancemakers is looking to hire a part-time Marketing and Development Manager. This role will work in close collaboration with Artistic Producer, Cara Spooner. The Dancemakers team also includes a part time bookkeeper and a volunteer board of directors comprised of dance artists and arts workers.

The company is in the process of gathering community feedback with the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and Community Impact Consulting to further shape this nomadic, project-led format while simultaneously supporting presentations in a range of contexts, scales, dance forms and locations. This opportunity has provided the almost 50-year-old company to re-make itself and the Marketing and Development Manager will contribute to this company shaping.

Dancemakers currently has multi-year operating funding (confirmed until 2026) and is also on annual operating granting cycles. This position’s contract will be renewed yearly based on funding results. Part of the position’s aim is to diversify funding streams and our goal is to transition this role into a permanent position by 2025.

As the role develops, if additional hours, responsibilities and/or tasks are required, Dancemakers is prepared to adjust the contract to account for shifts in scope. This role’s intention is to incrementally adapt and grow based on the needs and capacity of what is required within a healthy and sustainable working environment. In addition, if a job-share if of interest, please indicate that in your cover letter.

Requirement:

To apply:

Please send a resume, cover letter and examples of marketing experience (such as social accounts you have managed or contributed to) to artistic@dancemakers.org by Sunday Feb 26, 2023

In your cover letter, please outline your experience, why you would like to work in this role at Dancemakers and how you are committed to intersectional justice within dance practices.

Timeline of Hiring Process:

Applications are due by Sunday February 26, 2023.

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee during the week of Feb 27-March 3 2023 with invitations for interviews sent by Friday March 3, 2023.

Interviews will be held in person or online during the weeks of March 6-10 & March 13-17, 2023 with the intention to offer the role to the successful candidate the week of March 20, 2022.

The first day of work is to be decided in collaboration with the selected candidate (late March or April 2023). Dancemakers’ fiscal year runs from August 1-July 31 annually.

Declination letters to unsuccessful candidates will be sent once the selected candidate has been confirmed.

PLEASE NOTE: This intended schedule may need to shift slightly if accommodations or other needs are required.

Qualification:

Skills and Experience required:

Knowledge and experience working in any form of dance within the current Canadian context

Commitment to anti-oppression, anti-racist, and anti-ableist practices

Commitment to community-led processes and practices

Ability to work independently as well as in close collaboration with Dancemakers’ Artistic Producer

Experience working with (or a willingness to learn) WordPress/SquareSpace*, Microsoft Excel and Outlook, Canada Helps, SquareUp, Mailchimp and social media platforms

Experience designing in Canva and/or Adobe Suite*

Development Goals & Expectations

Researching and applying for foundations and grants

Obtaining and maintaining individual donors

Obtaining and maintaining corporate sponsorship

Managing Dancemakers’ marley dance floor and projector rentals

Managing Delta Bingo charity license and volunteers

Managing Charitable status and Not-for-Profit status (with ONCA standards)

Managing CADAC profile

Assisting with annual and multi-year operating grants and/or select project grants

Processing invoices and maintaining financial records for audit

Marketing Goals & Expectations

Creating and disseminating public communication through Mailchimp, social media campaigns and maintaining our website using brand guides*

Creating and disseminating other forms of marketing and advertising such as paid advertisements (online and/or in print)

Working with partners on shared marketing, ticketing and audience development

Ensuring that online accessibility standards are met for all online communications

Creating marketing campaigns that are artistically-minded and representational of the work being supported through aesthetic, language and tone

*Dancemakers is currently engaging in a re-design process to create a new website with CoEffect to which the role of Marketing and Development Manager will be actively involved with.

Remuneration:

Information about the role

Salary: $27,500.00 (annual contract renewed yearly) + benefits

Flexible work schedule – 2 days a week (or the equivalent of 16 hours a week)

Remote/in office (office located at 410 Jarvis Street – please note: this office is not accessible)

How to Apply: