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Assistant Manager
New Brunswick, NJ
Mason Gross Performing Arts Center
Part Time
Posted July 20, 2022
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Assistant Manager for the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center to provide customer service, event management, supervisory, and administrative support. This is a C4-Casual part-time position. $15/hour. Full academic year commitment is required with option for annual reappointment upon mutual agreement.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an on-your-feet managerial position. It is more a customer service based and less a clerical based position. Its primary focus is to provide additional managerial support and presence in the absence of the full time C1 Operations Manager and Program Coordinator.

Provides customer service support by upholding unit customer service protocols and policies during business hours and at performances as well as the execution of student staff duties in the positions of House Manager, Usher and Operator as needed

Provides event management support by acting as on site manager and liaison for student staff, departments and patrons in the absence of a C1 supervisor at Mason Gross events at MGPAC and NBPAC

Provides supervisory support by supervising/training student staff during business hours and at performances; administrative support by managing informational materials including, preparing, processing, and controlling records, reports, and documents such as parking requests, donation packs, bulletin boards, end of day financial reports, records management, and event reporting.

Provides administrative support by managing informational materials including, preparing, processing, and controlling records, reports, and documents such as donation packs, bulletin boards, financial reports, records management, and event reporting.

Requirements

This position requires box office experience within a performing arts venue or an equivalent combination of customer service or management experience.

A working knowledge of any of the live performance arts – theater, dance, music - or an arts organization is a huge plus.

Candidate must be willing to work unusual and variable hours, including evenings and weekends.

Candidate must have a car to transport the materials needed between our venues on different campuses.

Candidate must have strong interpersonal communication and customer service skills, including cash handling and Microsoft literacy, esp. Excel/Word.

Candidate must also be independent, problem-solving, detail-oriented, dependable, and the ability to observe, assimilate, and take direction are essential.

Preference will be given to candidates who have experience working in a similar role in a multicultural university setting, have knowledge of Tessitura ticketing software or similar ticketing software.

How To Apply

Applications must be submitted via the Rutgers Job Posting online.
Deadline: Aug 07, 2022