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The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) is seeking a visionary Collaborative Coordinator to assist the next phase of development and work collaboratively with the ten founding board members to transition from a founding board to governing board to achieve the BRC’s mission. Our mission is to provide funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. Founded in 2020, the Black Reconstruction Collective is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design and academia. The founding members of the BRC have produced work for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and received significant grants from the Graham Foundation, Open Society, and the Mellon Foundation.
The BRC engages the public through an annual process of reviewing proposals and providing critical and financial support to projects that have been selected by the Collective. This work will manifest in built commissions, research funding, exhibitions, events, and publications, that will collectively imagine transformations to the built environment in the Black Radical Tradition.
Compensation:
This full-time position with an expected commitment of 40 hours per week, over 52 weeks per-year is compensated with a starting annual income of $52,000 for the first two years, plus health insurance, a travel stipend and an Intern Assistant.
Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities of the Collaborative Coordinator:
Shaped by four primary goals of the BRC: 1. Administration of the Collective (and board meetings), 2. Awards Program Management, 3. Fundraising, 4. Financial Management
Leadership: To be a collaborative, visionary leader. To work with the Board of Directors fulfill and actualize the ambitions outlined in the Black Reconstruction Collective’s Mission Statement.
Coordinating: To coordinate with the Board of Directors to establish priorities, scope, and attitudes for BRC project selection and execution. To direct an annual committee to select projects for funding and support. This includes drafting guidelines for the selection of work that will prioritize emancipation for the African Diaspora and dismantling white supremacy.
Fundraising: To research and prepare grant proposals, and direct the grant-writing processes. To organize and implement with the Board of Directors the BRC’s annual benefit event. To assist the Board of Directors with additional fundraising through donations, memberships, special events, programming, etc.
Financial Management: To assume day-to-day fiscal responsibility for operations. To execute bookkeeping, prepare and manage annual budgets, and quarterly and annual fiscal reports. To review and approve payables and receivables.
Administration: To report to the Executive Committee and the Board on a regular basis. To initiate the development of a support team including an Intern Assistant. To develop strategies to deepen and expand the BRC through mission-driven practices. To work in consultation with the Board to establish team scope and responsibilities. To assume the management of the Board’s calendar of programs.
Requirements
Qualifications of the Collaborative Coordinator:
The ideal candidate holds a Masters degree in Arts Management, Fine Arts, Art History,Non-Profit Management or a related field with experience in Curatorial Practices, the Arts and Architecture. The preferred candidate will have at least 3 years of leadership or entrepreneurial experience and is:
â—Ź An emergent leader in arts, design and/or architecture, who will help guide the BRC through its current chapter of institutional development and is dedicated to establishing a collaborative organization with empathy, intellectual rigor, and spirited energy.
â—Ź Highly motivated to initiate resourceful and strategic approaches to conceptualizing and re-envisioning the non-profit structure as a tool to address questions of equity, emancipation, and reparation in art, design and academia.
â—Ź Deeply invested in the potentials of small non-profit arts organizations, with experience and/or willingness to develop knowledge in non-profit organizational leadership, fundraising and grant writing, and curation and programming in contemporary art, design, and architecture.
â—Ź Dedicated to community-building within art, design, and architecture in the United States as well as globally with similar institutions dedicated to the liberation of the African diaspora.
â—Ź Committed to values of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at all organizational levels.
How to Apply
How To Apply:
By Friday January 28, 2022, interested parties are to submit the following to info@blackreconstructioncollective.org:
Email a single PDF file that includes a letter of interest (articulating “why you, why now”), a resume/CV, three professional references, and a brief concept / vision statement for the BRC.
Subject line: “Full Name - Application Collaborative Coordinator”
Applications will be reviewed immediately following January 28th.
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