Operations Manager
Position: Operations Manager
Reports to: Director of Finance and Operations
Location: Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
Position type: Full-Time at 40 hours/week, Exempt
Salary: $46,000-$58,000 DOE
Benefits: Artist Trust prioritizes work/life balance, and self- and community- care. We offer 22 days of vacation and holiday time in the first year of employment, including 10 days accrued paid vacation, at least 10 paid holidays (including paid vacation from December 25-January 1), and 2 paid personal floating holidays; Artist Trust also offers accrued sick leave and family leave. Vacation accrual increases after the 1st and 4th year of employment, and four weeks of additional paid sabbatical is offered in the 7th year. We offer group medical, long-term disability, life insurance, and employer-matched retirement plan, professional development support for each staff member, and a flexible schedule and hours.
Overview of Position: We are looking for a detail-oriented systems-thinker passionate about supporting artists to join our team as Operations Manager! Working collaboratively across departments and with our Board of Trustees, the Operations Manager builds, maintains, and improves our organizational operations and internal processes. They provide key support for financial, data, website, and systems management, and serve as liaison and point of contact for the Artist Trust Board of Trustees, committees, and volunteers as needed. They will have the opportunity to lead and influence many key areas, including equitable reopening of our Seattle facility and in-person travel, human resources, work culture, technology, and more. The Operations Manager reports to the Director of Finance and Operations.
Ideal start date: Monday, March 14
About Artist Trust: Artist Trust is a nonprofit organization that supports working artists of all disciplines in Washington State. We fuel our funding and other programs for artists through fundraising, partnership, and community engagement. Recognized as a national model for direct funding and professional development for working artists, we have invested over $15 million in individual artists since our founding in 1986. At Artist Trust, all team members help shape our organization’s strategy and culture in a hard-working yet joyful environment. We view our mission through a lens of racial and geographic equity and are actively working to become an anti-racist organization and build a leaderful workplace. We invite you to learn more by visiting www.artisttrust.org.
Our Commitment to Racial Equity: Artist Trust is committed to racial equity throughout our organization, working against systems of racism and engaging in partnership with our Black, Indigenous, and people of color artist community to truly fulfill our mission to support all artists in Washington State. All staff and members of our board of trustees sign an annual commitment to anti-racism and are encouraged to regularly have discussions and share resources about racial equity, power, privilege, and positionally, and participate in trainings and race-based caucusing.
We lead with race because racial inequities are deep-rooted and persist in art support systems across the country. Race creates barriers to accessing resources and often intersects with other dimensions of artists’ identity, such as ability, age, citizenship, discipline, economic status, education, gender, geography, and sexuality. Our work towards racial equity informs how we address other inequities and helps us take a more intersectional approach.
