Opportunity: Web and Digital Media Manager, Zach Theatre, Austin

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Employment opportunity: Digital Media Manager, Marketing and Public Relations

The Digital Media Manager works in close partnership with ZACH’s Marketing Director, Art Director, Artistic Director and PR Manager in the creation and placement of web, video and interactive media design for Mainstage productions, Education shows, fundraising, special events and concerts. The Digital Media Manager works with each staff member of ZACH Theatre to achieve the goals set forth in the strategic plan, and to serve the mission of the Theatre.

Minimum Required Experience: Minimum three years experience in web and video design and creation.

Essential Job Functions:

• Video design and editing
• Website (design, maintenance and cross-training), management of Onramp (ZACH’s web provider)
• Email marketing (HTML formatted)
• Management of ZACH’s digital platforms, including a responsive mobile website CMS, and iPhone/Android applications
• Digital displays (projector, lobby monitors, touchscreen application), management of SCALA– custom software that publishes to ZACH’s digital signage displays
• Additional design, build out and animation of the new touchscreen in the Topfer; exploring new capabilities as they emerge and integrating those into ZACH’s digital environments
• Digital advertising (Flash banners), liaising with media buyers
• Work in partnership with ZACH’s PR Manager to place all social media outreach
• Copywriting and editing
• Creating and maintaining a strategic, cross-departmental email calendar with list segmentations
• Managing a budget for website developer contractors, and video and/or animation contractors

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Opportunity: Production Manager for Beauty Is The Best Priest, Austin Community College, January - March, 2013 (paid position)

Published at the the New Work Austin blog:

Seeking Production Stage Manager for Austin Community College Drama Department roduction Beauty Is The Best Priest: Short Plays Of The Harlem Renaissance, d Directed by, Florinda Bryant, Feliz McDonald, Marcus McQuirter, Zell Miller III.

Representing the cultural flowering of Harlem, from the 1920's-1930's, this production includes prize-winning works by African-American women, including Zora Neale Hurston, May Miller, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Eulalie Spence and Ottie Graham— who were among the most influential playwrights, poets, novelists, journalists, and activists of the era. Opens Friday, February 22nd. Runs February 22nd, 23rd and 24th and March 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm, The Boyd Vance Theater, George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

Job Start Date: 1/11/2013  Job End Date: 3/8/2013  Production Meetings Weekly, January 14, 2013-February 15, 2013

The position requires someone who is able to communicate effectively and to work independently within a theatrical production setting. Stage manager would manage ASMs, help run auditions, create and manage rehearsal schedule, take notes during rehearsals, run backstage operations during the run, coordinating cast/crew comp ticket requests with the box office, create production book and prompt script, perform any other such tasks expected of stage management. If interested, please reply to mmcquirt@austincc.edu with: 1. Resume 2. Cover letter highlighting relevant experience/education in the field as well as your interest in this specific show 3. Portfolio (as applicable ) Compensation: $1200 stipend, 2 comps