Theatre Technical Coordinator

Date Posted: 01/18/2024
Req ID: 35684
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Music
Department: Faculty of Music
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: #
Description:
About us:
The Faculty of Music is Canada's largest and most renowned university-based music program for professional musical training, creation, performance, education, and research. Home to a diverse and dynamic community of scholars, performers, composers, and educators, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music offers a supportive community in one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic cities. We provide a superb learning environment, an internationally renowned teaching faculty, multiple performance halls, and an outstanding music library collection. With degrees and diplomas available in numerous areas of study, our array of courses and programs provides our 900 students an exceptional opportunity to explore various fields within music. With over 600 concerts and events annually, the Faculty is an exciting and vibrant place to work, study, and visit.
Our faculty members include musicians who perform on the world’s most prestigious stages and record for major labels, scholars who present at leading international conferences and publish with top presses, educators who offer workshops and masterclasses at universities and conservatories worldwide, and composers whose works are performed by renowned ensembles and commissioned by acclaimed musicians and arts organizations.
Your opportunity:
The Faculty of Music is a great place to work. It has such a positive energy that comes from faculty, students and staff pursuing their love for and of music. We are small and hard-working team. We love what we do, and we work collaboratively to support our faculty and students in their musicmaking.
Under the direction of the Director of Operations, Performance, and Facilities, the incumbent will provide their technical acumen and will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational and performance space needs at the Faculty of Music. Duties will include ensuring that a safe working environment is maintained, maintaining a record of inventory, editing production documentation, analyzing, and recommending changes to rental fees, and planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects. The incumbent will also provide contingency backstop support for theatre technicians and other department colleagues, as required.
Your responsibilities will include:
-Analyzing processes and recommending changes for more efficient coordination of operations
-Implementing a rollout plan for the season performance schedule
-Conducting routine inspections of assigned facilities
-Analyzing technical operation activities and recommending changes for improvement
-Implementing production activities according to plans and schedules
-Writing instructional materials
-Planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects
 
Essential Qualifications:
-Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
-Minimum five years of recent and related experience.
-Demonstrated motivation and leadership skills.
-A high degree of applicable technical aptitude.
-Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
-Excellent problem-solving skills.
-Demonstrated working knowledge of the Employment Standards Act, the Ontario Health and Safety Act and the regulations and guidelines which pertain to work in the theatre environment.
-Standard First aid with CPR Level C.
-Working-at-heights certification.
-Class “G” Driver’s License.
Assets (Nonessential):
-Experience working in a unionized environment would be an asset.
To be successful in this role you will be:
-Achievement oriented
-Approachable
-Communicator
-Multi-tasker
-Proactive
-Resourceful
Closing Date: 02/01/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 12 -- $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Arts & Culture
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged , and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
This role is not currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the 
University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.