Director of Production, Texas Performing Arts

Job Posting Title:

Director of Production, Texas Performing Arts

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Hiring Department:

Texas Performing Arts

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

Purpose

Responsibilities

• ​Leadership and Planning: Maintain a culture of production excellence across TPA’s activities. Instill a backstage work ethic characterized by consistency, attention to detail, safety, and creative problem-solving. Lead the production team, including hiring, management, scheduling, and professional development. Develop and manage the departmental operating budgets. Develop and maintain organization-wide plans for technical systems replacement and back-of- house maintenance to ensure TPA’s venues operate at or above industry standards. Maintain the production department’s processes and standard operating procedures. Maintain accurate venue specifications and plans. Maintain business relationships with labor providers, vendors, and as-needed employees. Maintain knowledge of historical, current, and emerging industry practices. Evaluate and adopt new production technology throughout TPA’s operations. Oversee the management of TPA’s technical equipment inventory, including resources primarily used by other TPA departments or shared between university programs. Develop and maintain strong relationships with production stakeholders and peers across the university, in the region, and nationally. Ensure compliance with university policies and procedures including hiring, staff management, timekeeping, and purchasing.

  Production Management: Provide overall supervision to technical planning of TPA’s events, ensuring that the event sponsor’s objectives are fulfilled and budgets are maintained. Review and negotiate project requirements, specifications, budgets, and schedules. Advise the programming department and other event sponsors on technical needs of potential and confirmed events. Guide TPA’s production, lighting, audio/video, and staging/rigging supervisors to effectively coordinate periods of multiple back-to-back productions. Lead allocation of equipment and labor resources across consecutive or concurrent projects. Support event settlements and budget reporting. Serve as technical advisor to TPA’s self-produced events and new works in development.

  Education and Mentorship: Develop opportunities for UT students to build their network and gain professional experience through TPA’s productions. Maintain a culture of mentorship, continuous improvement, and professional development for students, employees, and contract workers.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

Driving Required

This job requires a class "C" operator's driver's license. The applicant selected must provide a current three year driving record from the current state of residence. If not currently a Texas resident, a Texas driver's license must be obtained within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident. Employees who are required to have a CDL are subject to drug and alcohol testing (pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, random, return-to-duty, and follow-up drug and alcohol testing).

Salary Range

$120,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

Work Shift

Required Materials

• Resume/CV

• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest
• Work samples may be requested if applicant advances to the interview stage.

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Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.  You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.  Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.  Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

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E-Verify:

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

• E-Verify Poster (English) [PDF]
• E-Verify Poster (Spanish) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (English) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

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Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.