General Information
Job Title:
Black Box Theater Manager: The Geneva School
Job Description:
The Geneva School Theater Manager is responsible for the school’s Black Box Theater. This position manages the operations and technical aspects of the school’s theater, overseeing scheduling, daily operations, plays, events, and safety protocols. The manager works closely with the school’s upper school performing arts department as well as with lower school grade level teachers.
Position Qualifications:
As a mission-driven school, employees play a central role in fulfilling our mission. Hired by and subject to the supervision of the director of Rhetoric School (grades 9-12), the Black Box Theater Manager is a full-time, exempt position. The manager, in a formational and relational role, models Christ-like behavior within The Geneva School community as he or she works within the Christian, liberal arts tradition.
I. Essential Duties
The Geneva School Theater Manager is responsible for the school’s Black Box Theater. This position manages the operations and technical aspects of the school’s theater, overseeing scheduling, daily operations, plays, events, and safety protocols. The manager works closely with the school’s upper school performing arts department as well as with lower school grade level teachers.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Theater Schedule Management:
Overseeing the daily operations of the theater. Managing bookings for the theater by organizing rehearsals and performances and distributing schedules.
- Technical Oversight:
Ensuring the smooth running of technical aspects of performances or presentations, including sound and lighting systems and stage setups.
- Problem Solving:
Helping the director and students with backstage issues that may arise during rehearsals or performances, ensuring the show runs smoothly despite unforeseen circumstances.
- Safety & Compliance:
Ensuring safety protocols are adhered to within the theater space.
- Collaboration:
Working closely with drama, music, and other departments that frequently use the theater.
- Student Instruction and Management:
Teaching and managing high school students taking the school’s A/V elective.
Other job requirements:
The following requirements are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the Black Box Theater Manager position and are not intended to be inclusive. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, as defined by law, to perform any essential functions.
- Lift 20 lbs. occasionally and 10 lbs. frequently
- Sit frequently and stand and walk on varied surfaces
- Bend, stoop, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance, kneel, crawl
- Use hands/arms to reach in any direction and seize, grasp, hold, and turn objects using hand(s). Use fingers, versus the whole hand, to pick, pinch, and feel objects.
- See, talk, and hear to communicate with others in person, electronically, by phone, or by radio. Visual functions include the ability to identify and distinguish colors and bring an object into sharp focus.
II. Personal Profile
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong organizational and time management skills are essential for managing bookings and schedules.
- Understanding of theater production, including staging, sound, and lighting. Able to manage and program the school’s lighting and sound system.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills are vital for coordinating with various staff and departments.
- Knowledge of safety guidelines and the ability to work under pressure are important.
Intrinsic Qualities:
- Ascribes to and agrees to live in accordance with The Geneva School’s statement of faith.
- Holds oneself to a high standard of honesty and integrity.
- Professional and approachable in appearance and attitude.
- Willingness to learn new skills.
- Self-motivated with a positive ‘can do’ approach to work.
- Reliable/dependable.
- Detail-oriented.
- Practices good stewardship of the school’s resources.
- Enjoys working around children and is able to form and monitor appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
III. Employment Information
The Geneva School prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical disability, handicap, or any other consideration protected by law. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant’s job qualifications, experience, and abilities and in full accord with The Geneva School’s statement of faith and the school’s statement of mission, vision and values.
Application Deadline
08/15/2025
Job Type:
Full Time
Salary Range:
TBD
General Information
Church/Organization Name
The Geneva School
Contact Name & Contact Info
Industry
Education/Training
Denomination
Non-Denominational
City, State
Casselberry, FL
Description of Organization
The Geneva School is a mission-driven school established in 1993. Our mission is to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of divinely ordered whole. Further, Geneva seeks to inspire students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.
As a mission-driven school, employees play a central role in fulfilling our mission. Hired by and subject to the supervision of the director of Rhetoric School (grades 9-12), the Black Box Theater Manager is a full-time, exempt position. The manager, in a formational and relational role, models Christ-like behavior within The Geneva School community as he or she works within the Christian, liberal arts tradition.
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