
Managing Director, Texas Performing Arts
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The Managing Director provides high-level leadership across Texas Performing Arts’ business operations, guest experience, production, human resources, facilities, and event management. The role aligns teams and organizational strategy, builds university and industry relationships, supports leadership and board planning, and oversees fiscal management and organizational operations. It advances the organization’s programming, educational impact, facilities, and experiences.
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Internal Leadership: Provide high-level leadership to the heads of Business Operations, Guest Experience, Production, Fabrication and Academic Production, Human Resources, Facilities, and Event Management. Support these areas in understanding TPAs priorities, setting aligned goals for their areas, and meeting or exceeding those goals. Develop and implement strategies that align TPAs needs and ambitions with people, processes, and systems. Provide high-level thinking in parallel with attention to detail. Lead organization-wide, cross-functional teams on key initiatives. Facilitate effective and timely interdepartmental coordination. Demonstrate authenticity, emotional intelligence, and effective communications to guide and motivate TPAs entire staff through clear and composed action.External Leadership: Build and sustain strong relationships with TPAs university and industry partners. Serve as a trusted and respected leader at the university and within the field. Participate in reporting to and planning with TPAs Leadership Board. Serve as a proxy for the Executive Director when needed and as a public face of the organization when assigned.Fiscal Management: Provide financial planning and management that sustains and increases TPAs fiscal health on both an annual and long-term basis. Provide financial insight and analysis to the Executive Director and other senior leaders. Oversee the business operation teams budget development, management, and reporting. Supervise management of the balance sheet. Maintain and continuously enhance financial systems to meet the needs of all users. Develop a comprehensive knowledge of and ensure compliance with university financial policies and procedures.Operations: Create operational excellence, discipline, and coordination across the organization. Lead organizational operations to ensure the effectiveness of TPAs programs. Create and apply entrepreneurial and solution-oriented approaches to carrying out TPAs programs within a complex business environment. Operationalize TPAs strategic and programmatic plans. Provide operational insight and analysis to the Executive Director and other senior leaders. Develop comprehensive knowledge of and ensure compliance with university operating policies and procedures.Consistently advance Texas Performing Arts goals of expansive and innovative programming, educational impact, and world-class facilities and experiences across all defined responsibilities and other duties as assigned. This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described.
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- Pay
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- Texas median$178–278K/yr35 salary ranges
- Openings
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- Education
- 406 of the 1,011 open Executive Leadership jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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