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Job Description / Duties

Purpose
The Stage Manager is responsible for the event management of Black And Free’s program at the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum. This includes both stage Productions and educational, promotional, or other presentations or appearances that require production elements. The Stage Manager will provide support to the Creative Director, Artistic and Production management teams and ensure good communications between a variety of groups, including artists, speakers, technicians, and project and museum staff.

Stage Manager responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Oversees calling the lighting cues, the movements of scenic elements, sound elements, technical elements, and performers. The Stage Manager should execute all calls as they feel fit, however it is encouraged to make calls from the wings when able

The Stage Manager is in sole charge of the backstage areas during a performance.

Assist and advise the Artists on matters relating to their physical welfare and safe working conditions.

Overseeing a production during the rehearsal period and during performances

Maintain and assemble prompt scripts including detailed notes on blocking

Maintain artistic and technical intentions of the director, producer, and designers after opening

Coordinate and communicate with Creative Director and between a variety of groups, including artists, speakers, technicians, and project and museum staff.

Maintain records as necessary to advise the project and museum on matters of company discipline, overtime, meal breaks, working environment, health and safety

Adhere to, implement, and enforce and KSWRM safety policies, and ensure that safe work practices and policies are supported and enforced within the reporting structure.

Qualifications / Required Skills

Qualifications & Skills

Exceptional interpersonal, organizational and communication skills

The successful candidate will have a thoughtful and precise approach to their stage management practice while being able to adapt to and work as part of a team.

Responds well to high pressure situations

Strong computer skills with knowledge of MS Office programs and cloud-based programs (SharePoint, etc.).

Additional Information

Start Date: Immediately

End Date: March 31, 2023

Event Dates: March 25-26, 2023

Salary: Compensation: $20/hr maximum 60hrs - Payment by: EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer) from KSWRM (received 2-4 after invoice submission)

Contact Information

Application Submission: Email .
Include:

1) job title in the subject line;

2) one-page cover letter (with brief personal reflections on the topic of blackness of freedom); and

3) curriculum vitae

Employer Profile

Project Overview
Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's research-creation project Black And Free is a dynamic multi-year project that brings together artists, students, public and private sector partners, and the general public. The project examines (through research, scholarship and art) what Black expressive culture teaches us about blackness and freedom in the 21st century.

Project Partner
Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum (KSWRM) is a partner of Black And Free through collaborating on the presentation of a public programming event (with an educational component) each year of the project. They are providing staff resources to support the research and public engagement with the project’s themes and they are making museum space available for research programing. They are using their involvement to develop more creative and inclusive programming that will “express the stories of Black freedom in public spaces.”