Role Description
Position: WIT Creative Director
Responsible to: |
Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) Members |
Key Relationships: |
- Co-creative Director (if applicable)
- WIT Committee members
- WIT Trainers
- WIT Producers
- WIT Members
- External industry professionals
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Position Description: |
To provide creative direction for the Wellington Improvisation Troupe |
Commencement: |
At the WIT AGM |
Hours: |
1 evening per month – Committee meeting
Additional 10 hours per month (depending on involvments) |
Key responsibilities and accountabilities: |
As a member of the committee:
- Make every effort to attend all Committee meetings and devote sufficient time to become familiar with the organisation and the wider community for whom it operates
- Contribute to decision-making about the organisation’s objectives, policies and procedures
- Ensure the organisation operates legally
- Monitor and evaluate how well the organisation is meeting its objectives, and take appropriate action as required
- Represent the organisation at external meetings, forums etc (where appropriate)
- Promote the organisation and its work
- Work for the greater good of the organisation in an ethical manner showing respect for fellow committee members and ensuring fair and full participation of all committee members
- Respect the confidentiality of information discussed at meetings
- Declare any conflict of interest which arises through the member’s work or relationships in another capacity for WIT or outside of WIT
- Commit to serve for the whole year of elected office, except in exceptional circumstances.
As Creative Director:
- Be our creative leader, with the Coordinator
- Provide creative direction and leadership, and develop a WIT improvisation concept with the group
- Be in a lot of WIT shows and be overall responsible for training (or delegated as appropriate)
- Take the lead on performance and training issues
- Be overall responsible for trainings and mentor trainers, producers, directors, and MCs (or delegated as appropriate)
- Put together and keep a living creative plan (purpose, goals, activities)
- Based on the creative plan, maintain and run a training schedule
- Be overall responsible for development and coordination of space for training and performance (or delegated as appropriate)
- Define and maintain WIT standards
- Represent and promote WIT and WIT’s brand
- Help members develop their unique/individual role within the group and facilitate group harmony
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Person specification: |
- Ability to manage workload independently
- Professional manner in all external communication
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to inspire others with leadership
- Ability to practise good improvisation in accordance with the philosophies of WIT
- Good understanding of the production of theatre
- Theatre industry knowledge
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