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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Director of Production, Texas Performing Arts in Austin, Texas
?Leadership and Planning: Maintain a culture of production excellence across TPAs activities. Instill a backstage work ethic characterized by consistency, attention to detail, safety, and creative problem-solving. Lead the production team, including hiring, management, scheduling, and professional development. Develop and manage the departmental operating budgets. Develop and maintain organization-wide plans for technical systems replacement and back-of- house maintenance to ensure TPAs venues operate at or above industry standards. Maintain the production departments processes and standard operating procedures. Maintain accurate venue specifications and plans. Maintain business relationships with labor providers, vendors, and as-needed employees. Maintain knowledge of historical, current, and emerging industry practices. Evaluate and adopt new production technology throughout TPAs operations. Oversee the management of TPAs technical equipment inventory, including resources primarily used by other TPA departments or shared between university programs. Develop and maintain strong relationships with production stakeholders and peers across the university, in the region, and nationally. Ensure compliance with university policies and procedures including hiring, staff management, timekeeping, and purchasing. Production Management: Provide overall supervision to technical planning of TPAs events, ensuring that the event sponsors objectives are fulfilled and budgets are maintained. Review and negotiate project requirements, specifications, budgets, and schedules. Advise the programming department and other event sponsors on technical needs of potential and confirmed events. Guide TPAs production, lighting, audio/video, and staging/rigging supervisors to effectively coordinate periods of multiple back-to-back productions. Lead allocation of equipment and labor resources across consecutive or concurrent projects. Support event settlements and budget reporting. Serve as technical advisor to TPAs self-produced events and new works in development.Education and Mentorship: Develop opportunities for UT students to build their network and gain professional experience through TPAs productions. Maintain a culture of mentorship, continuous improvement, and professional development for students, employees, and contract workers. Other duties as assigned.