Hiring at the Big Apple Circus
Stephanie Dockery
Dear ALI:
Many of you have exclaimed over my running-away-from-the-Arts-&-Business-Council-to-join-the-Circus. And now that I have been here at Big Apple Circus for a month+, I am looking to add to my team. Being me, I like people who can do everything; I also change all job descriptions based on each new person who joins the team… and then look to change them and grow the responsibilities each year anyway. I can use someone in institutional giving and or individual giving (see attached). And while I might hire at a Manager level, the job descriptions attached are at a (more senior) Director level. In either case, the new hire will report directly to me… take your chances accordingly.
I can now reveal that the whole development of the Arts Leadership Institute over 2010, 2011, and 2012 was to identify a pool of exceptional talent with whom I could hopefully work directly over the rest of my own career. I suppose I could consider a recommendation from any of you as to colleagues, friends, acquaintances… but I also hope that one or more of you might take this opportunity to consider Big Apple Circus as a next step in your own exceptional lives.
$20 million budget. Been around 35 years (and just finished a hard transition from its co-founders). Ten months of performance, three at Lincoln Center, one in Queens, six on-the-road, in front of 400,000. A very powerful and well-established flight of community service programs (clowns working with kids in Memorial Sloan Kettering, etc.). In FY14, we’ll need to raise $5 million (the other 75% comes in at the Box Office and concessions); plenty of growth ahead after that. Admin office turns out to be in Brooklyn, and if I can find it, so can you. No lions, tigers, elephants.
Missing you all,
Will Maitland Weiss
Vice President, Development
Big Apple Circus