Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts

Roles and Responsibilities

Community Engagement, Communications, and Marketing

• Serve as the spokesperson of The Webb Center as a dynamic presence throughout Wickenburg engaged with a variety of constituents, including business owners, schools, elected officials, and community supporters while enhancing the organization’s annual programming, summer art camp offerings, brand, and local and regional reputation.
• Maintain two-way communication with the general public, including patrons, donors, elected officials, board members, vendors, contractors, arts colleagues, chamber of commerce, retailers, business owners, school board officials and administration, demonstrating a commitment to and integration of art and educational programming into the
• Enhance all marketing communication strategies to highlight the unique mission and public image of the organization as a regional asset, leveraging its quality and reputation as a distinctive social and artistic destination to increase event attendance and summer arts camp participation from targeted communities, such as Wickenburg, Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise, and the SW Phoenix Valley and beyond.
• Maximize The Webb Center’s use by local art groups, businesses, and educational institutions by partnering with local groups, service organizations, and the corporate sector furthering programmatic, educational, and inclusive access goals in service and outreach to the various cultural and socio-economic sectors.
• Enhance and support additional community engagement, communications, and marketing responsibilities as needed.

 Fundraising, Finance Management, and Administration

• Manage and expand a varied roster of fundraising strategies and opportunities through a comprehensive understanding of development, fundraising, and philanthropy informed by experience with endowments, major gifts, corporate sponsorships, foundation giving, and government support.
• Collaborate with the development staff to articulate the artistic and outreach mission of The Webb Center to primary donors and town officials to further identify and cultivate relationships with key donors, potential corporate sponsors, foundations, trustees, and funders, as well as other untapped fiscal resources.
• Prepare the annual operational budgets for programming at The Webb Center and summer arts camp, as well as individual event budgets providing tracking, maintaining records, developing financial analysis and policies regarding revenue vs. expenses vs. budget for operations while also partnering with and overseeing an outside accounting firm on the annual audit.
• Oversee organizational budget, controlling mainstage and summer arts camp expenditures, while implementing internal controls to ensure fiscal integrity in invoicing, payroll, purchasing, petty cash, checking and investment accounts, and reporting of ticket sales, single ticket events, box office reports, ticket revenue and reconciliation.
• Enhance and support additional fundraising, finance management, and administration responsibilities as needed.

Board Management and Company Operations

• Identify, cultivate, and assist in the recruitment of new board and advisory committee members collaborating with The Webb Center Board of Directors, for board development and growth of the finance committee and other committees as
• Partner closely with The Webb Center Board of Directors to implement future strategic plans and organizational goals including establishing annual and long-term goals for earned and contributed revenue that ensure the sustainability of The Webb Center.
• Motivate members of The Webb Center Board of Directors to utilize their skills and networks to maximize fundraising capabilities in the development and the nurturing of new stakeholders, increasing fundraising strategies through special events, sponsorships, private donations/gifts, The Encore Society, and corporate/foundation/government
• Supervise and oversee all The Webb Center employees, contract and full-time production and house staff, summer arts camp staff, and volunteer activity including payroll and all human resource issues while demonstrating a continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service and safety.
• Collaborate with Wickenburg Unified School District (WUSD) administrators and board members regarding the terms and conditions for the use of the facility and maintain a cooperative relationship with members of the WUSD administration and governing board.
• Coordinate and communicate with the Technical Director, Events Coordinator, and staff to ensure all presented events, artists, and rental needs are met, or exceeded, within financial goals, providing contracts that include the appropriate event staff, equipment, while also maintaining contract management
• Enhance and support additional board management and company operations responsibilities as needed.

Artistic Leadership and Programmatic Outreach

• Enhance the creative direction of The Webb Center through year-round programming of quality artistic and outreach offerings of multi-disciplinary events that attract multi-generational audiences while ensuring that the diversity, nuance and context of culturally specific art and engagement of the Wickenburg region is respected and honored to further the organization’s image and visibility, locally, regionally, and nationally.
• Produce all aspects of The Webb Center’s highly successful annual summer arts camp, ‘Camp Imagination’, in June, for children in grades 1 through 12, requiring one month or more of preparation for the logistics of the camp, including performance selection and all its ancillary services, and another month for execution of the camp and its extremely popular public performances.

• Nurture strong relationships with presenters, promoters, and community stakeholders to ensure and implement a vibrant and diverse annual season for “Webb Center Presents” recognized for its eclectic and attractive programming featuring nationally touring artists and attractions, and other special events.
• Attend booking conferences to network with artists’ agents and other presenters in the field, using this network to present artists in this part of rural Arizona, negotiating all artist contracts and executing offer letters to agents, managers, and artists.
• Provide support to the WUSD employees, teachers, or their agents for all school sponsored events, and manage events that create opportunities for WUSD students to interact directly with professional performers, in the theater, at other community locations, and/or in the classroom.
• Develop further and produce all aspects for all additional programs including but not limited to, ‘Made in Wickenburg’ partnerships and residencies including all funding, staffing, scheduling, logistics and public performances.
• Enhance and support additional artistic leadership and programmatic outreach responsibilities as needed.