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Intersection is Hiring
Monday, 27 February 2012 16:30

Live in San Francisco and looking for a paid job working in the arts? Intersection for the Arts is searching for a Managing Director. ~Details

 We are hiring a Managing Director! 
This is an amazing opportunity at an extraordinary period of growth and innovation for Intersection for the Arts. We are looking for energetic leaders - emerging or seasoned - with a vision for the essential role that artists, cultural spaces and creative experiences play in community.

Do you know anyone who can manage complex projects and dynamic partnerships? Someone who is passionate about social change and embraces change and risk? Someone who wants to step into a leadership position with tangible opportunity for growth and mobility? Someone who is inspired to build new models that bridge artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and innovators? This is a perfect opportunity to grow with a great organization making transformative work.


Open Positions


Position: Managing Director (Intersection for the Arts)
Reports to: Executive Director

Overview

Intersection for the Arts, one of San Francisco’s most vibrant community-based cultural centers, seeks a Managing Director. As Intersection settles into its new home and plays a lead role at the 5M Project, this key leadership position will help guide the organization at the most ambitious and pivotal growth trajectory in its history. This is an opportunity for a strategic leader to help Intersection develop and manage a pioneering collaboration called 5M PlaceWorks. We are looking for an ambitious and energetic creative entrepreneur with a vision for the nexus of art and community development. The Managing Director will guide the implementation of innovative arts strategies that instigate social change.

Working in partnership with the Executive Director, the Managing Director translates short and long-term goals and strategies into the daily life of the organization. The chief areas of oversight include administrative and business operations; financial management; human resources; program, project and production management; communications and development. The Managing Director is responsible for supporting Intersection’s Executive Director in translating complex and growing community partnerships into budget, contracts, and operational plans. On a day-to-day basis, the Managing Director supervises all staff and is responsible for the effective delivery of all Intersection programs and services.

This key position oversees a year-round multi-disciplinary program that aims to bring people together across silos and boundaries to facilitate dialogue and debate and to spark positive community and social change. The Managing Director is charged with harmonizing a team of very talented, high energy, diverse individuals and oversees dynamic visual arts, performance, placemaking, music, and youth art programs.

Background

5M Project
The 5M Project is a creative development in downtown San Francisco designed to catalyze the innovative ideas that build our economy and strengthen our communities. It is a place that utilizes a collective need for innovation to encourage shared resources and ideas across traditional boundaries. Where artists, makers, students, changemakers, entrepreneurs, local food, and technology are coming together day and night. A place designed for people to create.

In the last two years, we’ve been assembling and connecting more than 2,000 creative organizations linked together at 5M through our partners: TechShop, Hub, SoMa Central, SFMade, Intersection for the Arts, Off the Grid and SOCAP, among others. Together, we are transforming an underutilized property into a vibrant place for community and innovation. Over the next ten years, the four-acre site (between 5th, Mission, and Howard Streets) will become a mix of low, mid, and high-rise buildings for living, working, and playing.

5M PlaceWorks
As a direct outgrowth of interest from the communities surrounding 5M, Forest City and Intersection for the Arts are co-creating 5M PlaceWorks – a pioneering organization working to make the innovation-focused resources at 5M into an asset that strengthens our local neighborhoods and creates economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities. PlaceWorks is working to remove barriers and build partnerships between non-profit and for-profit; urban development and community services; social and economic growth. We aim to bridge the collaborative power of more than 2,000 diverse organizations and individuals linked at the 5M Project with the surrounding neighborhoods through two primary levers – PLACEMAKING and ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

Position Responsibilities

Administrative and Business Operations

  • Establish and maintain effective and efficient administrative systems and operations for all programs, partnerships, and opportunities.
  • Working with office and administrative support staff, manage organizational operations including maintaining operating procedures and policies, office supplies, equipment and key vendor relationships.
  • Coordinate compliance with business reporting.
  • Ensure the maintenance of all organizational files and data.
  • Manage risk, evaluate and maintain appropriate policies and insurance (health, liability, directors and officers, etc).
  • Approves all contracts.

Human Resources and Staff Management

  • Implement creative systems for attracting, nurturing, and retaining the best and brightest staff possible.
  • Provide day-to-day oversight to a dynamic and diverse staff.
  • Serve as primary supervisor to all director level staff.
  • Serve as chief human resources director ensuring full compliance with California labor laws.
  • Manage and administer payroll, employee benefits and organizational insurance.
  • Maintain employee records.
  • Manage comprehensive Performance Management program.
  • Lead hiring process, create job descriptions; administer disciplinary process when necessary; maintain up to date personnel manual.

Finance

  • Provide day-to-day support, oversight and direction to Finance Director and Finance Assistant.
  • Participate in the periodic development of budgets and cash flow forecasts.
  • Coordinate annual budget process with Executive Director, Finance Director, and Finance Committee.

Development and Communication

  • Partner with Communications Director in to ensure strategic institutional marketing and communications.
  • Partner with Development staff and the Executive Director to set and achieve aggressive development goals with a specific focus on increasing membership and individual donations by 150% within 3 years.
  • Participate, as needed, in various fundraising activities including individual donor cultivation, special events, and grant writing and reporting.

Information Technology and Facilities Management

  • Manage and Plan for all the organization’s information technology needs working with vendors, contractors, and staff.
  • Manage the organization’s facilities.
  • Manage lease and Lessor relationship.
  • Support Executive Director in exploring and negotiating long-term facility solutions.

Programming Leadership

  • With Program Team, ensure innovative systems for delivering Intersection’s programs and services.
  • Manage operational plan for all programs and ensure efficient delivery.
  • When necessary, make final decisions regarding program plans.
  • Represent Intersection and its innovative business practices to the larger community at select meetings, conferences, and events.
  • In partnership with the Executive Director, work to develop and achieve over-arching organizational goals in line with the strategic plan.

Board and Executive Director Support

  • Coordinate regular staff reports and communications to the Board
  • Attend and coordinate Board and Board committee meetings when necessary.

Key Characteristics

Competitive candidates for this position will have a strong vision for art and community development and an ambition to build innovative new models and strategies. Strong candidates are energetic and aspiring leaders and creative entrepreneurs with management experience, excellent communication skills and clear collaborative capabilities. We are looking for a strategic thinker with extremely strong people and project management skills.

Candidates will demonstrate a history of success in managing projects and people and the ability to inspire and coalesce board, staff and community. S/he will have the capacity to collaborate with a diverse cross-sector community. We are looking for candidates who are hungry to step into a key management position with significant, tangible continued growth opportunities.

The successful candidate will exhibit energy, dedication, ownership, and an eagerness to move a vision of art and community development forward.

Compensation

Compensation package includes health and dental benefits; 15 days paid leave, a bonus week at the end of each calendar year, plus holidays and sick time; and significant opportunities for professional development and growth. Salary range is $50,000 to $58,500 FTE.

To Apply

Intersection for the Arts deeply values diversity and encourages women and people of color to apply. Please forward your:

  1. cover letter
  2. resume
  3. and list of at least five references to:

Jobs@TheIntersection.org with Managing Director Search in the subject line.  Thank you!

No phone calls please.


Title: 5M Project Coordinator (Forest City)
Reports To: 5M Director + 5M Development Director

Overview

The 5M Project Coordinator is responsible for a wide range of communications, collateral design, community engagement, and project management. The position will be very active with strategic development and related operations flows of the 5M Project and 5M PlaceWorks. He/she will manage workflow execution for a broad range of projects, online/offline content creation, collateral generation, and communications, while supporting relationship and program development with community based organizations interested in the 5M Project and 5M PlaceWorks. Position is ideal for an entrepreneurial-thinking individual with deep interest and/or experience with project management, urban planning, graphic design and marketing/ communications. He/she must be passionate about learning how a creative, highly complex development project unfolds, step by step. The position requires a deep commitment to 5M and its overall mission. Work will be conducted at the 5M Project in downtown San Francisco.

BACKGROUND

Forest City
Forest City is a national urban development company founded in 1920 by the Ratner family in Cleveland, Ohio. We build and operate large-scale mixed-use developments in cities across the United States. Our projects are focused in urban infill locations, often near transit, and always environmentally sustainable. We are a company of entrepreneurs rooted in the goal of building places that understand how we want to live in our cities. Our national projects range from MIT University Park in Boston to MetroTech in Brooklyn to the Uptown in Oakland. In San Francisco, we are building The 5M Project along with Pier 70. We work with dozens of community-based partners who help us at every step.

5M Project
The 5M Project is a creative development in downtown San Francisco designed to catalyze the innovative ideas that build our economy and strengthen our communities. It is a place that utilizes a collective need for innovation to encourage shared resources and ideas across traditional boundaries. Where artists, makers, students, changemakers, entrepreneurs, local food, and technology are coming together day and night. A place designed for people to create.

In the last two years, we’ve been assembling and connecting more than 2,000 creative organizations linked together at 5M through our partners: TechShop, Hub, SoMa Central, SFMade, Intersection for the Arts, Off the Grid and SOCAP, among others. Together, we are transforming an underutilized property into a vibrant place for community and innovation. Over the next ten years, the four-acre site (between 5th, Mission, and Howard Streets) will become a mix of low, mid, and high-rise buildings for living, working, and playing.

5M PlaceWorks
As a direct outgrowth of interest from the communities surrounding 5M, Forest City and Intersection for the Arts are co-creating 5M PlaceWorks – a pioneering organization working to make the innovation-focused resources at 5M into an asset that strengthens our local neighborhoods and creates economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities. PlaceWorks is working to remove barriers and build partnerships between non-profit and for-profit; urban development and community services; social and economic growth. We aim to bridge the collaborative power of more than 2,000 diverse organizations and individuals linked at the 5M Project with the surrounding neighborhoods through two primary levers – PLACEMAKING and ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Position will work in tandem with 5M staff and 5M partners to:
• Manage 5MProject.com website, blog, social media, and email marketing
• Create and edit moderate to complex reports as well as other documentation
including presentations, schedules and work plans
• Support graphic design, content creation and marketing collateral generation
• Support management of, and communications with, key partners at 5M Project
and 5M PlaceWorks
• Book/attend all 5M strategy and operations meetings, understand subsequent
workflows, and manage execution/follow-through by team
• Develop online/offline communication and project management tools as needed
• Support creation and execution of wide spectrum of 5M events
• Manage a paid intern (when hired)
• Entrepreneurially seek out and develop greater efficiencies of communication,
project management, and other opportunities that arise

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

• Higher education in business, community development, urban planning,
anthropology, graphic design and/or other related subjects to position description
• Experience with community engagement and working with a diversity of people
• Experience working with highly complex projects, programs, and relationships
• Experience with event creation and production
• Experience with marketing, communications, website management, blogging,
and social media
• Strong ability to write and speak publicly
• Skilled project management offline and online (using online tools)
• Comfortable using MS Office, email marketing solutions, Google Apps,
Eventbrite, Twitter, and Facebook a must
• Performs duties using initiative and independent judgment with little or no
supervision; organizes/coordinates workflow and manages multiple tasks,
projects, and deadlines.
• Ability to design documents in InDesign, PhotoShop, and Illustrator a plus
• Ability to cross boundaries and blend value between for-profit and non-profit
perspectives and resources
• Energetic, ambitious, and flexible with hours and range of duties an absolute
MUST!
• Creative and critical thinker, good communication skills in socially complex work
environments

HOURS

Full Time. Workflows are during normal business hours and some evening hours for
events.

COMPENSATION

• $23-29/hr for 40 hours/week
• Overtime is available
• Full benefits package
• 2 weeks paid vacation

Expected Start Date: ASAP

APPLY

Please submit a cover letter, resume and list of three references to alex@5mproject.com. Please list in subject line of email: “5M Project Coordinator Position” only. If you don’t do this, your email will be lost. Please also list how you found out about the position – what your source was. Thank you.

No phone calls please! We will respond to you by email for an interview if you are a good fit for the position. If you don’t receive a reply email to your submission, then please understand that you were not selected for an interview. Thank you!


 
 

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NYCHOS completed this great new mural on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco on Tuesday. Looks Amazing.


Sun Milk in Vienna

With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding


"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle

I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle


Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works

Some great work from San Francisco based Tyler Bewley.


Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery

While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.


Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles

Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.


The Albatross and the Shipping Container

Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.


The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.


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