Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Partner with the Board of Directors and its committees to create, refine, and implement a strategic plan for the organization, as well as help leverage their connections to additional fundraising opportunities.
• Provide consistent and transparent leadership across the organization and establish a sustainable strategy that encourages artistic innovation, fiscal responsibility, and organizational longevity.
• Institute and implement decisive action plans with the senior management team that include a clearly defined internal organizational structure designed to achieve strategic, operational, and tactical priorities, along with measurable goals.
• Serve as the principal spokesperson, ambassador, and advocate for the organization, fostering strong relationships and cooperative arrangements with elected officials, community and education leaders, and industry groups in support of RiverRun and its programming.
• Embrace other strategic and operational leadership responsibilities as needed.

Fiscal Oversight and Revenue Enhancement

• Create and manage the annual operating budget, ensuring the highest levels of financial accountability with proactive transparency in financial reporting with staff, Board members, and other stakeholders.
• Manage financial reporting systems, provide financial analysis, develop earned and contributed revenue forecasting models and scenario plans, and alternative revenue streams to supplement fundraising and ticket sales, and make recommendations to support decision-making.
• Oversee and guide all marketing and communication efforts to develop strategic marketing initiatives designed to create long-term engagement and increase attendance.
• Collaborate with the development team to strengthen long-term donor engagement strategies, increase individual donor, large gifts, government, foundation, and local and regional corporate support.
• Embrace other fiscal oversight and revenue enhancement responsibilities as needed.

Programming and Community Engagement

• Enhance the programming of RiverRun International Film Festival in partnership with the Program Director to uplift the vision and mission of fostering a greater appreciation of cinema, increasing diverse audiences, and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures, and perspectives of the world.
• Implement key strategies to make the festival a destination event through innovative thinking, new opportunities, fresh ideas, and new technologies to increase the profile of RiverRun, bringing it to the next level of creativity and artistic expression.
• Expand RiverRun’s presence in the broader field by representing the organization at national convenings, participating in collective lobbying efforts, and fostering relationships with local or national peer organizations that may result in producing partnerships and resource-sharing.
• Maintain a consistent presence with and engage the community by expanding the festival’s year-round activities and events, focusing on increasing visibility and reputation in the arts, education, culture, public, corporate, government, and philanthropic communities.
• Embrace other programming and community engagement responsibilities as needed.

Staff Leadership and Supervision

• Provide consistent, transparent, and inspiring leadership across the organization to build and maintain a culture of collaboration and establish a sustainable strategy that encourages artistic innovation and fiscal responsibility, establishing a reputation in the community as a desirable workplace.
• Ensure a unified sense of direction and strong support to the various internal divisions of the organization through calculated and thoughtful guidance of the senior team members to ensure programming aligns with business, mission, vision, programming, and human resources goals and activities.
• Schedule and convene regular meetings amongst staff, facilitating timely communication and information exchange, in collaboration between various stakeholders, to foster a work environment with a focus on two-way communication between administration and staff
• Expand and diversify staff members by monitoring their productivity, setting clear professional expectations, providing job specifications, constructive feedback, and encouraging accountability through proactive approaches, including coaching, mentoring, and advancing successful employees.
• Embrace other staff leadership and supervision responsibilities as needed.