Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site
$45k–$55k/yr
Description Position Overview Attack Theatre seeks an Operations Manager to oversee the administrative and operational infrastructure that supports the company’s artistic, educational, and community-based work. The Opera…
Skills: Arts Administration, Organizational Management, Project Management, HR Processes, Budget Coordination
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The Operations Manager oversees the administrative and operational infrastructure of Attack Theatre, ensuring efficient internal systems and staff operations. This role also involves managing financial operations and serving as the primary liaison to external vendors.
Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in arts administration or nonprofit operations, with a strong preference for those with a background in performing arts. Strong organizational skills and experience with HR processes and financial workflows are essential.
Description
Attack Theatre seeks an Operations Manager to oversee the administrative and operational infrastructure that supports the company’s artistic, educational, and community-based work.
The Operations Manager ensures that the organization’s internal systems, staff operations, facilities, and administrative functions run efficiently and sustainably. This role translates organizational priorities into effective processes and ensures that the artistic and program teams can focus on delivering high-quality performances, educational programs, and community partnerships.
Working closely with the Executive Director the Operations Manager oversees day-to-day administrative functions and organizational systems. The role also serves as the primary liaison to the organization’s external financial services provider, ensuring smooth internal workflows for budgeting, contracting, payroll coordination, reporting, and compliance. The Operations Manager supervises an Administrative Coordinator who supports administrative operations and event logistics.
This position is ideal for an experienced arts administrator who is highly organized, systems-oriented, and comfortable managing
the operational backbone of a creative organization.
(Finance functions are managed by an external accounting firm.)
Attack Theatre operates from a shared cultural facility in Lawrenceville with several partner arts organizations. This role serves as the primary point of contact for office tenants, shared space coordination, and maintenance requests.
Attack Theatre works with several external consultants who support key organizational functions. The Operations Manager coordinates internal workflows and communication to ensure these partnerships function smoothly and align with organizational priorities.
Responsibilities include:
Attack Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employers (EOE). We are committed to diversity in all areas of our work, on and offstage. We encourage applicants with a unique cultural perspective inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, class, physical ability, and sexual orientation. Offices, studio and classroom spaces are ADA compliant. We strongly encourage persons with underrepresented identities and varied lived experiences to apply.
About Attack Theatre: Founded in 1994 by Michele de la Reza and Peter Kope as a collaboration between two dancers and a city, Attack Theatre fuses modern dance, original live music, and interdisciplinary art forms to create engaging dance performances. We create work at the intersection of art and community, resulting in productions that are personal, authentic,
Requirements
Dance | Music | Passion
Under the artistic direction of Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, Attack Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based performances with "ninja-like intensity" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review) for fifteen years. They combine modern dance, original live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present work in traditional and nontraditional spaces both nationally and internationally. They have collaborated with major regional theaters (Quantum Theatre), NYC Broadway productions (Squonk), museums (Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Frick Art Museum, Mattress Factory), symphonies (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), operas (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Spoleto USA) and international dance companies (Japan's Nibroll Collective, Belgium's Compagnie Matteo Moles), thereby presenting nearly 100 original works in theatrical and site specific settings. While maintaining a loyal audience in Pittsburgh, they have toured nationally in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, D.C., Texas, Washington, New York and Massachusetts; and internationally, throughout France, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Turkey and Japan.
Offices: 212 45th St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201, US
Dance | Music | Passion
Under the artistic direction of Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, Attack Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based performances with "ninja-like intensity" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review) for fifteen years. They combine modern dance, original live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present work in traditional and nontraditional spaces both nationally and internationally. They have collaborated with major regional theaters (Quantum Theatre), NYC Broadway productions (Squonk), museums (Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Frick Art Museum, Mattress Factory), symphonies (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), operas (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Spoleto USA) and international dance companies (Japan's Nibroll Collective, Belgium's Compagnie Matteo Moles), thereby presenting nearly 100 original works in theatrical and site specific settings. While maintaining a loyal audience in Pittsburgh, they have toured nationally in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, D.C., Texas, Washington, New York and Massachusetts; and internationally, throughout France, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Turkey and Japan.
Offices: 212 45th St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201, US
