Radar is hiring!

Please email resume and cover letter to info@radarproductions.org

Details
Job Title: Managing Director
Status:  Part-Time 20-25 hours per week
Classification: contractor
 
Position overview
 
RADAR Productions seeks an organized, detail-oriented Managing Director to join our team. The Director’s responsibilities include acting as a member of RADAR’s leadership, develop annual budgets, handle day-to-day financial and human resources operations, support the execution of programming and participate in organizational strategy.
 
The managing director works closely with the executive director to implement RADAR’s four core programs and ensure the financial stability of the organization. Availability to work evenings is required.  The ideal candidate has thorough understanding of QuickBooks and is fluent in all aspects and functions of bookkeeping. Passion for queer literature and creativity is a must.
 
 
Principal Responsibilities
 
Financial

• Financial management RADAR’s budget including bookkeeping with Excel and Quickbooks, arranging tax preparations, mailing 1099s, CA Cultural Data Project annual data input, invoicing, and check writing
• Create and conduct individual donor campaigns several times per year, raising at least $15,000 annually; co-create multiple fundraising events
• In conjunction with grant writing consultant, submit over 25 grant applications per year including Federal, State, City funding and private foundation funding streams; manage all grant contracts including reporting requirements; find new potential funding sources
• Booking, budgeting and managing of annual Sister Spit literary tour (two weeks in Spring).
• Create and administer all program evaluation tools in line with contracted funding obligations
• Represent organization to funders, Board, and other entities
• Organize and lead Board meetings, maintain regular communication to Board members
• make bank deposits
• Fufill invoices and check writing
• Organize and attend Quarterly meetings with financial adviser
• Maintain RADAR insurance
• Maintain checking, paypal, square accounts

 
Admin

• Manage the RADAR e-mail
• Manage the digital files & physical files
• Upkeep Program Master Spreadsheet
• General wordpress website updates
• Manage California cultural data report
• Maintain e-mail lists
• Call and conduct regular meetings with the Artistic Director

 
Program

• Handle logistical planning for all RADAR Programs including:
  • Sister Spit Tour
  • Show Us Your Spines Residency at the SFPL
  • Visual Arts Collaboration 
  • Up to 2 special projects per year
• Hire and supervise web site designer, graphic designers, videographers and other contracted staff and interns
• Oversee, create and disseminate or delegate creation for all publicity and press; collect for future use; maintain bank of work samples, publicity examples, and press
• Work with Artistic Director to conceptualize and administer organization’s structure and year-round programming
• Attend all RADAR events, when possible
• Create and send press releases
• Run social media
• Assist in event conceptualization and curating

 
ABOUT RADAR
Founded in 2003, RADAR Productions is one of the nation’s highest profile literary arts organizations focused on queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). Our presenting, commissioning and touring programs re-imagine what the literary arts can be, stimulate the production of work by QTPOC artists and explore the community-building role played by literature and the arts. Our programs build community and create a platform for innovative, emerging and mid-career queer and trans artists of color whose works challenge mainstream concepts of culture, race, gender, sexuality and class and authentically reflect the experiences of QTPOC.
 
Throughout its 13-year history RADAR has employed the arts to build and amplify a queer community that creates innovative artistic interventions to culture, meaningful transformation for artists’ lives and life-changing and life-affirming access to the literary arts for our audiences. RADAR has always prioritized an inward-facing method: queer artists dialoguing with queer audiences in hopes of strengthening and affirming community, rather than queer artists representing a monolithic queer experience to straight audiences in hopes of being humanized. As such, RADAR prioritizes artistic process/practice, recognizing that the spirit of experimentation, creativity and “art first” has greater potential for cultural change than the expectation that queer artists consistently be expected to be representational first.