A&L Production Manager

About the role

The Production Manager is responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing the event production requirements for UCSB Arts & Lectures' annual season, ensuring that artist, contractual, logistical, and operational requirements are successfully coordinated from artist offer through post-event settlement.

Responsibilities

• Under the direction of the Director of Education & Community Engagement, the Production Manager is responsible and accountable for the planning, advancement and successful implementation of high-profile public events (live and virtual), with the ability to carefully assess and manage risk with a high consequence of error.
• Fulfills highly complex contractual obligations on behalf of the Regents.
• Develops preliminary event production cost estimates to support artist offers, contract negotiations, annual season planning, and budget development.
• Reviews and redlines artist technical and hospitality riders for feasibility and cost assessment, recommending approval or modifications of riders and negotiating technical riders with artists and artist management.
• Evaluates venue capabilities in collaboration with venue technical directors and venue staff to determine how event production requirements can be accommodated.
• Develops comprehensive event production plans, schedules, timelines, and logistical requirements.
• Manages communication among artists, artist representatives, venue personnel, campus partners, vendors, and internal staff regarding event production requirements and logistics.
• Works with a high degree of autonomy, leading the event planning and advance work with artists' managers, technical staff, hospitality and other event staff.
• Serves as a central point of contact and liaison with contracted venue/theatre technical staff and management.
• Represents the University with decision-making authority at all times throughout the artists' residency.
• Makes sure event production planning activities are monitored and fulfilled according to contractual event production requirements.
• Develops practical, cost-effective solutions to event production and logistical challenges while maintaining exceptional artist service.
• Is independently responsible for successful delivery of quality events within budget.
• Coordinates all activities related to the public event, including managing the public and coordinating with Publicity, ticketing personnel and Development officers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Theater production, performing arts management, arts administration, event management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4-6 years progressively responsible experience in live event production, performing arts presenting, venue operations, or related event management.
• Experience developing and administering event production budgets and cost estimates.
• Experience advancing productions and interpreting artist technical and hospitality riders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with exceptional attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with artists, artist representatives, venue personnel, vendors, campus partners, and colleagues.

Qualifications

• Experience with a multidisciplinary performing arts presenter, university arts organization, or comparable nonprofit performing arts organization.
• Experience supporting orchestral, jazz, dance, theater, contemporary music, film, and public lecture presentations.

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Knowledge of industry-standard event production software and tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Benefits

Arts and Lectures (A&L) is a large, robust, complex, primarily self-supporting, non-academic unit that supports the academic mission of the university. A&L is the largest presenting organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is one of the most visible, public-facing departments at UCSB. Through more than 150 events annually, A&L partners with faculty and academic departments, community organizations and leaders, university administrators, philanthropists and funders to create opportunities that integrate with and complement university curricula and create community connections.

Pay

The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $88,000 - $124,800/yr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $88,000 - $161,600/yr.

Schedule

Mon - Fri (8 am - 5 pm) plus evenings and weekends as required.