Profession performance production manager

Performance production managers take care of a range of practical issues concerning the production. They deal with matters ranging from the recruitment of staff, procurement of materials and services, to freight, customs coordination, telecommunications, labor relations, logistics, information technology, government liaison, venue booking, scheduling, operations management, mending delay problems and workplace safety.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional
• Enterprising / Investigative

Knowledge

• Corporate social responsibility

  The handling or managing of business processes in a responsible and ethical manner considering the economic responsibility towards shareholders as equally important as the responsibility towards environmental and social stakeholders.

• Cultural projects

  The purpose, organisation and management of cultural projects and related fundraising actions.

Skills

• Strive for company growth

  Develop strategies and plans aiming at achieving a sustained company growth, be the company self-owned or somebody else's. Strive with actions to increase revenues and positive cash flows.

• Manage staff

  Manage employees and subordinates, working in a team or individually, to maximise their performance and contribution. Schedule their work and activities, give instructions, motivate and direct the workers to meet the company objectives. Monitor and measure how an employee undertakes their responsibilities and how well these activities are executed. Identify areas for improvement and make suggestions to achieve this. Lead a group of people to help them achieve goals and maintain an effective working relationship among staff.

• Organise cultural events

  Arrange events in cooperation with local stakeholders which promote local culture and heritage.

• Supervise daily information operations

  Direct daily operations of different units. Coordinate program/project activities to assure the respect of costs and time.

• Manage budgets

  Plan, monitor and report on the budget.

• Develop artistic project budgets

  Developing artistic project budgets for approval, estimating deadlines and material costs.

• Manage operational budgets

  Prepare, monitor and adjust operational budgets together with the economical/administrative manager/professionals in the arts institute/unit/project.

• Estimate needs of artistic production

  Analyse, estimate and list the production needs.

• Organise rehearsals

  Manage, schedule and run rehearsals for the performance.

• Coordinate artistic production

  Oversee the day-to-day coordination of production tasks so that the organisation fits within the desired artistic and business policies and in order to present productions in a uniform corporate identity to the public.

• Manage artistic project

  Manage an artistic project. Determine project needs. Establish partnerships. Manage the budget, schedule, contractual agreements and assess the project.

• Represent the organisation

  Act as representative of the institution, company or organisation to the outside world.

• Liaise with local authorities

  Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities.

• Establish daily priorities

  Establish daily priorities for staff personnel. Effectively deal with multi-task workload.

• Delegate activities

  Delegate activities and tasks to others according to the ability, level of preparation, competence and legal scope of practice. Make sure that people understand what they should do and when they should do it.

• Set organisational policies

  Participate in setting organisational policies that cover issues such as participant eligibility, program requirements, and program benefits for the service users.

• Plan health and safety procedures

  Set up procedures for maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace.

• Develop cultural activities

  Develop activities adapted to the outreach and/or audience. Take into account difficulties and needs observed and identified from the perspective of enhancing curiosity and general capability to access to art and culture.

• Create production schedules

  Create the timeline for the production of a motion picture, broadcast program or artistic production. Decide how long each phase will take and what its requirements are. Take into account the existing schedules of the production team and create a viable schedule. Inform the team of the schedule.

• Manage logistics

  Create logistic framework for transporting goods to customers and for receiving returns, execute and follow up the logistics processes and guidelines.

• Promote inclusion

  Promote inclusion in health care and social services and respect diversity of beliefs, culture, values and preferences, keeping in mind the importance of equality and diversity issues.

• Work with cultural venue specialists

  Call upon the competence of other professionals and specialists, from within and outside the organisation, to contribute to activities and provide documents to improve public access to collections and exhibitions.

• Organise performance space

  Keep the stage and backstage areas organised. Define and label areas for different purposes, such as storage, dressing and meeting. Coordinate organisational decisions with the users of the space.

• Adapt to artists' creative demands

  Work with artists, striving to understand the creative vision and adapting to it. Make full use of your talents and skills to reach the best possible result.

• Manage supplies

  Monitor and control the flow of supplies that includes the purchase, storage and movement of the required quality of raw materials, and also work-in-progress inventory. Manage supply chain activities and synchronise supply with demand of production and customer.

• Promote cultural venue events

  Work together with museum or any art facility staff to develop and promote its events and programme.

• Draw up artistic production

  File and document a production in all its phases right after the performance period so that it can be reproduced and all relevant information remains accessible.

• Liaise with cultural partners

  Establish and maintain sustainable partnerships with cultural authorities, sponsors and other cultural institutions.

• Coordinate with creative departments

  Coordinate activities with other artistic and creative departments.

• Follow company standards

  Lead and manage according to the organisation's code of conduct.

• Coordinate rehearsals

  Organise rehearsal schedules for actors and crew, collect and update necessary contact information as well as organise any additional meetings for the actors and crew.

• Plan artistic production activities

  Allocate staff and resources to different activities in the artistic production. Take into account the needs of the production and coordinate with the involved parties.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB