Local Technical Coordinator – National Folk Festival
Job details
$30,000 a year
Full Job Description
The National Folk Festival seeks a focused, creative and detail oriented individual to serve as the Local Technical Coordinator for this event. The National Folk Festival will be held August 26-28, 2022 in downtown Salisbury, MD. This position would support the City of Salisbury in producing this nationally acclaimed free, large-scale festival featuring multicultural music and dance performances on 5 or more stages, as well as crafts demonstrations, family activities, and foodways. 2022 is the final year of the National Folk Festival in Salisbury, and will be a transition year for technical management working on the Maryland Folk Festival in 2023 and beyond.
This is the perfect contract position for someone with technical staging experience and an interest in arts, culture, and event production who is skilled in problem solving, and who thrives in an environment requiring a high level of coordination, communication, flexibility and expertise.
The Local Technical Coordinator is a key member of the festival team working to coordinate festival site operations, from planning through implementation.
This position will work closely with the City of Salisbury’s National Folk Festival Manager and National Council for the Traditional Arts’ festival planning team. This contractual position has reporting responsibilities to the Local Festival Manager
The role will contribute to the following key tasks:
- advancing technical festival needs with NCTA operations team
- researching event vendors and working with City procurement requirements
- assembling orders, monitoring schedules, attending meetings
- working with a team in using a technical database-developing site drawings and problem-solving site plans
- assisting in oversight of festival load-in and strike
- coordinating storage and maintenance of local festival equipment/supplies
- maintaining accurate records,
- supporting budget management and execution
- recruit and support development (and training) of local technical team
- working with NCTA and Festival/City staff to ensure smooth on-site operations
Qualified applicants will be detail-oriented, organized, and adaptable, with good people skills capable of team leadership and collaboration.
Experience in facility management, event production, or project management are preferred. Electric power distribution, light construction, heavy equipment operation, and other relevant safety certifications are a plus.
Prior experience in concert production, theatre production, or festival organization is preferred.
Experience with database management, MS Word, MS Excel, and Adobe Acrobat is required. Experience with AutoCAD and/or Filemaker is a plus.
Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 per CDC guidelines, possess a clean driving record, be able to lift 40 lbs., and have access to reliable transportation. Some evenings, weekends, and travel required.
This full-time independent contract runs March 15 – November 30, with a contract estimate of $30,000, commensurate with experience. Work is hybrid remote and in-person, with required onsite participation at event locations and regular access to work onsite in Salisbury, MD, for the majority of the contact period.
Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume, and three references.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $30,000.00 per year
COVID-19 considerations:
Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 per current CDC guidelines
Work Location: One location
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Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 per current CDC guidelines?
Is that a joke?
$30K is gross, remove 30% now down to $21K…healthcare? Social Security? Retirement?
Pennies yet build bike lanes, round abouts, empty buildings, etc.
You always get what you pay for service. Do the math. 30k is less than $15 an hr FULL time..the position description requires lots of experience to pretty much make what a burger flipper makes
damn you have to know more than the Mayor and where is the college degree.. maybe the Mayor can do it for that kind of pay for what the person has to know and what is expected seems like 125,000 would start
So Caroline O’Hare goes from a local daycare employee to folk festival director @70,000+/year and now she needs a 30,000+/year assistant? I thought the upcoming 2022 national folk festival in Salisbury was going to be the last year of Salisbury’s obligation? They found a patsy/sucker in Jake Day and salisbury’s citizens to continue annually to support this so called art/entertainment. Jake Day hasn’t/isn’t developing downtown Salisbury for nothing. You idiots will be subjected to annual communist/socialist events in your city and continue to pay for it by allowing such a lunatic to lead your city
There should be no more Folk Festivals here in Salisbury there should not have been the first one. Jake only pops up once a year for this calamity it has nothing but drunks and running amuck, parking problems and littered streets, and the worst entertainment and booths fitting Mexico and 3rd world countries. The people working it have stated little contributions are made and their pass outs are empty. Arial shots show hardly any attendance, and the shuttle buses at the Civic Center were unused. And with no fences how many bodies wound up floating and missing that we hear about. Salisbury would be better served by one of our old Civic Center Farm and Home Shows, with events for the children. Make it something regional not just a brew fest.