Black Film Center and Archive Associate Director (Program Management Specialist)
Department Information
The Media School at Indiana University is built on a decades-long tradition of journalism, film, media, and communication at one of the nation's premier public universities. Our programs focus on teaching, researching, and creating media from academic, creative, and professional perspectives. The Media School is committed to building and supporting a strong community of students, scholars, practitioners, and staff.
The Black Film Center and Archive (BFCA) is a unique and vibrant entity housed under The Media School. Established in 1981, the BFCA was the first and remains the only archival repository in the world solely dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about Black people.
Job Summary
Department Specific Responsibilities
- Manages the staff and day-to-day operations of the BFCA, implementing the vision and direction of the director.
- Actively seeks out IU and external grant opportunities, and coordinates with IU resources to pursue funding opportunities.
- Ensures compliance with IU procedures, as well as those of the granting entities, when grants are acquired, taking the lead on reports and other communication.
- Assists with BFCA programming, including film screenings, guest scholar and filmmaker visits, and campus or community events.
- Assists with coordinating communication and outreach, including drafting social media posts, communicating with collaborators, and hosting tours.
- Serves as the direct supervisor for the 4 full-time staff in addition to some hourly staff.
- Supports non-grant fundraising efforts including donor communication and relationship cultivation.
General Responsibilities
- Plans, directs and implements programs or events, including the creation of materials to support these events.
- Provides staff communications and serves as liaison to program participants, collaborators in other units, community partners, vendors and the public.
- Provides mechanisms, training, and advice on a variety of issues such as budget management software and advanced strategies for timely spending of grant funds.
- Recruits, trains, directs, schedules, and evaluates faculty and staff partners, students and volunteers.
- Researches available grants and works closely with managers to identify funding needs and potential sources, creates grant proposals that further advance support of the program and program participants.
- Constructs and administers program budgets and approves spending.
- Keeps abreast of best practices to recommend policies and procedures that deliver a quality program experience.
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