Operations Manager

Reports to: Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director
Full-Time, Exempt
Salary: $60,000
Location: New York

Target Margin Theater seeks an Operations Manager to join their small and dynamic team. Their new Operations Manager will collaborate with the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director to manage the company’s activities and advance the next phase of their growth. The most important qualities they seek are a deep affinity for their company’s artistic mission, and a commitment to the values they aspire to embody in every dimension. Target Margin is an arts organization, but their work expresses the values of justice globally: anti-racism, equity and humane treatment for people, access for all to the work they make and the world they aspire to create. They embrace unorthodox ways of working and seek new ways to think about how they collaborate. BIPOC candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, and candidates abled in all ways are strongly urged to apply. They also encourage those who may not have conventional resumes to apply; there is no degree requirement for them. Ever. We like to eat.

Target Margin serves diverse and overlapping communities, including artists and theater professionals, audiences, students at many levels, and their neighbors, local Sunset Park residents. Their goal is to unlock the enormous potential of the space they have called home since 2017. Target Margin Theater’s move to Sunset Park, into a dedicated performance, office, and rehearsal facility, has fostered a sea-change in their programs. They have begun to work toward realizing the possibilities of the space with some success, but they know that their new home offers much greater potential growth and mission-driven impact. Everyone on their staff is expected to participate in the artistic conversation at Target Margin.

Responsibilities:
Target Margin’s new Operations Manager will be broadly responsible for their physical plant and the hardware and software for everything we do. Notably:

Facility Management. Manage Target Margin’s physical space at 232 52nd Street in Sunset Park; supply, maintain, organize, and effectively schedule TMT’s office, studios, and performance space, as well as the façade, entryways, and sidewalk; work with Target Margin’s landlord to keep the envelope of the building in good condition; supervise part-time staff who support facility functions.

Technical Support. Provide technical support for all of Target Margin’s hardware systems in the building, both office and production related, and the software needed for them to run. This will include maintaining, organizing, and managing the repair of their lighting and sound equipment, printer and telephones, and toilets and sink.

Space Rentals. Renting their 2 studios and their performance space is effectively a small business. The new Operations Manager will lead the strategy and management of rentals to grow the income they can earn from this business. The Ops Manager will market, negotiate and oversee execution of rental agreements. They will coordinate rentals including scheduling, supervising, and staffing this business; arranging supervision when renters enter the space, as they visit, and at the conclusion of their rental period; ensuring renters’ compliance with rules and limits for the use of spaces. Gathering experience from the marketplace and adjusting their strategy as they learn more about the business.

Other. Support other development and programmatic efforts in collaboration with Target Margin leadership, as needed.

ABOUT TMT
Target Margin Theater exists to change their shared culture, to remake the world as a more engaged, aware, and humane version of itself. Everything about their programs and activities flows from this.
We are a multi-OBIE Award-winning theater founded on the principle that works of art returns us to real truths most powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. They strive to energize the cultural landscape by producing and presenting innovative, experimental performances of classic plays, opera, literature and historical sources, continuously seeking to expand their conception of what can take place in a theater. ‘Difference’ is the generative principle of all we do – from reimagining the relationship between audience and performed event to the strong history of age, race, and gender diversity in their company – and is one of Target Margin’s most identifiable features.
In 2017 they moved into their first ever performance home in Sunset Park Brooklyn. Service to the layered communities of their neighborhood has now grown into an anchor and focus of their work. They cultivate and nurture substantial relationships with many community partners, and they work to bring their artistic work into meaningful relationships with the city around them.

Requirements

They are looking for candidates with technical and/or management experience in a theatrical setting. An appetite for supervising their rental business will be crucial for success. Target Margin is a small company where they all pitch in to make their work succeed. Though this is a Management position, it will require hands-on work too; no one is too big to clean up the bathroom here. Beyond that, it is important that the new Operations Manager has a commitment to Target Margin’s mission, values, and work.

They are excited to work with a range of humans with all kinds of diverse experience. Your difference is an asset!

Helpful skills but not required:
• Experience managing facilities and/or rentals

• Creative thinking around sales and generating rental income
• Experience with theatrical lighting and/or sound equipment
• Proficient with PCs and Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience with engaging with diverse populations
• Bilingual in English, Mandarin, Spanish, and/or Arabic
• Knowledge of or interest in NY theater scene
• A strong team player, ready to jump in and lend a hand

• A sense of humor, love for good food and drink, and an awareness of the absurdity of it all

Application Instructions

Send resume, cover letter, and three references to targetmargintheater@gmail.com by November 13th, 2023 with “Your Name + Operations Manager” in the subject line.

In your cover letter, please include:
* What about TMT appeals to you? What about this job?
* What is your drink of choice?
* Anything else you’d like us to know.

No phone calls please. Our team will contact qualified candidates directly.