Opportunity Details

Director of Performance
Posted: 03/14/2024
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Job Function: Non-Profit / Social Enterprise
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posted: 03/14/2024
Description

About the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, dedicated to fostering a vibrant and inclusive cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative projects that showcase the regions cultural diversity and enhance public life, and we engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders. The Center is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. The Opportunity The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage seeks a passionate arts advocate and strategic administrator to lead the Centers project grantmaking and programming for the performing arts across the Greater Philadelphia region. The Director of Performance will support a thriving creative community and have substantial impact on the regions cultural ecosystem.Program Directors are a part of the Centers senior leadership team, which works closely with the Executive Director to develop the vision and strategic agenda of the Center and to collaborate on Center-wide and/or cross-programmatic activities and projects. The Director of Performance is expected to work with the Executive Director to be fully invested in all aspects of program development, envisioning, and evolution across the performance sector, as well as to actively develop the capacity and effectiveness of programmatic staff.Senior leadership at the Center necessitates a set of behaviors that evidence a broad and complete understanding of the Centers values and agenda, good organizational intelligence, and sophisticated judgment. Program Directors lead, manage, plan, implement, and monitor all aspects of their assigned Program(s), in alignment with the Centers mission of fostering a vibrant and inclusive cultural community in the five-county, Greater Philadelphia region, by investing grant funds in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the regions cultural diversity and enhances public life. Through this work, Program Directors must also exemplify a sound understanding of the Centers unique relationship with its funder, The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew), by demonstrating responsible stewardship of grant funds and in acting to conserve the Centers strategic position within Pews broader mission and interests.Program Directors work to assess the artistic and infrastructure needs of Greater Philadelphias diverse arts and cultural community leading to the conceptual development of strategies that respond to those needs within the scope of Pews work. Such response will include conceptual design and application of strategies that cultivate artistic excellence through: administration of grant-making processes liaison with, and outreach response to, the regional cultural community oversight of grantee capa.

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