Executive Director | Maestra Music Job at Management Consultants for the Arts in

Maestra Music (Maestra) is seeking an Executive Director committed to deepening the organization’s ongoing work to support women and nonbinary individuals in the professional musical theater field. The Executive Director will harness the energy and activities of a rapid movement that has grown exponentially since Maestra’s founding in 2019. Advocating for equity for women and nonbinary musical professionals will be the guiding light for the Executive Director, and the means to that end will be realized more fully by building new resources and infrastructure as the organization continues to establish itself as a vital force within the field. With a talent for activating progressive programs that attract resources and community investment, the Executive Director will lead with diplomacy, tenacity, and a deep desire to help Maestra’s Founder and founding contributors more fully realize the organization's Mission and live fully by its Values. As its top staff leader, the Executive Director will report directly to Maestra’s Board and will oversee, mentor, and build staffing infrastructure.

MISSION AND VALUES

Mission

Maestra Music provides support, visibility, and community to the women and nonbinary professionals who make the music in the musical theater industry. Our membership is made up of composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists, and other musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater. The organization’s initiatives include monthly educational seminars, mentorship programs, technical skills workshops, networking events, and online resources and partnerships that aim to promote equality of opportunity and to address the many historical disadvantages and practices that have limited women and nonbinary composers and musicians in the musical theater.

Values

Maestra is a movement. We are the women and nonbinary professionals who make the music in the musical theater industry. We have a bold vision for an industry that is more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible, across all intersections of race, sexual orientation, physical and intellectual ability, age, nationality, appearance, and gender identity and expression. We seek to build, apply, and own our collective power. To these ends:

1. We value relationships. We practice radical collegiality to champion each other as individual professionals and nurture connectedness among us.
2. We value transparency. We share our knowledge to help each other thrive.
3. We value collaboration. We encourage participation from our members and respond to new ideas and initiatives.
4. We value partnership. We coordinate with other groundbreaking leaders and organizations because this movement is larger than us.
5. We value solutions. We take practical steps to support individual members while driving toward cultural and systemic changes that benefit our entire global community.

POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Maestra Music’s Executive Director will be looked to as a collaborative and decisive leader, someone who can bring insights into non-profit and team management and find new ways to advance and shape Maestra’s overall mission and vision. Supporting the originating intentions and continuing influences of Maestra’s Founder, the Executive Director’s primary responsibilities will include:

Strategic Leadership

1. Provide direction and leadership toward the development and achievement of the organization’s philosophy, mission, vision, strategy, and annual goals and objectives.
2. Establish and nourish a great working relationship built on trust and accountability with Maestra’s Founder, Board of Directors, Staff, and Constituents.
3. Support an organizational culture that measures the efficacy and impact of all services and programs in the pursuit of constant process improvement.
4. Manage Maestra’s Staff with clarity, decisiveness, and a philosophy of team-building that promotes an environment of mutual respect, empowerment, and trust throughout the organization.
5. Guide strategic thought to identify opportunities for greater advocacy and support for women and nonbinary professionals in the musical theater industry.

Revenue Generation and Financial Management

1. Develop and achieve balanced annual operating budgets.
2. Serve as the organization’s main connector for fund development and revenue enhancement, directly engaging funders and key influencers through a clear and focused agenda set forth in collaboration with Maestra’s Board of Directors and Staff.
3. Work closely with Maestra’s Founder Georgia Stitt and its Board of Directors on a fundraising approach that capitalizes on all parties’ reach and influence in the field.
4. Create an infrastructure to achieve and/or surpass annual fundraising, sales, and attendance goals.
5. Identify new ways to increase Maestra’s revenue base and organizational capacity.

Programming

1. In deep collaboration with Maestra’s team, evaluate and be responsive to programmatic needs that advance Maestra’s mission.
2. Empower team to listen to its constituency and develop programs that command significant and expanding interest.
3. Seek to understand how programming must respond to different regional needs around the country.
4. Maintain a robust network of cultural influencers and a valued and valuable professional network in the musical theater/theater world.
5. Forge and more fully establish beneficial relationships with universities, colleges, and other related outlets.

Brand Advancement and Communications

1. Develop a strong public presence as Maestra’s Staff leader.
2. Promote the idea of ambassadorship throughout the New York City performing arts community and broadly throughout the United States in other markets.
3. Work with and mentor a team to execute innovative marketing and communications plans.
4. Communicate all messaging and marketing approaches to the Board of Directors and Staff in advance of their implementation and execution.

COMPENSATION AND START DATE

The annual salary range for the Executive Director begins at $120,000 and includes a benefit package relevant to an organization of its size and history. Maestra Music hopes to make its decision by the first quarter of 2025 with the chosen candidate taking on the position shortly thereafter.

Maestra Music is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, national origin, ethnic origin, citizenship status, disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in its employment policies. In addition, Maestra Music will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to submit in complete confidence a cover letter, resumé, and four professional references to the consulting firm retained to conduct the search.