Producer/Producteur or Productrice, National Arts Centre

Introducing the National Arts Centre

The National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts. The NAC presents, creates, produces, and co-produces performing arts programming in various streams—the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre, and Popular Music and Variety—and nurtures the next generation of audiences and artists from across Canada.

Curious to learn more? We invite you to read our strategic plan for 2020-2023 in The Next Act.

Collaboration, innovation and community-led engagement are only some of the many initiatives the NAC will leverage to help shape a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future for the performing arts in Canada, one that embodies our slogan and loudly proclaims that Canada is our stage.Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:

It is the National Arts Centre’s goal to be a more welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and diverse organization for all Canadians. We believe that the basis of this inclusivity requires a socially and culturally diverse workforce and, therefore, we actively seek to recruit candidates who identify as women, Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour (IBPoC), persons from the LGBTQ2+ community and persons with disabilities. We encourage you to self-identify in the recruitment process.

Key Activities

Reporting directly to the Managing Director and working closely with the Artistic Director, Indigenous Theatre, the Producer has a critically important leadership role within the department and the NAC itself. The ideal candidate is a skilled producer/administrator with an artistic lens who has an established understanding of creating and presenting Indigenous work, the relational nature of this work and making it work within the NAC context. Someone who likes a challenge, working in a strong team dynamic, and likes creating really great, meaningful, impactful change through the work - including how we produce the work - on the stage. The Producer supports, develops, and produces a broad range of programming (in-house productions, presentations, community and audience engagement activities), and will actively participate in internal and external activities and committees, daily decision-making, contracting, budgeting and financial operations.

Duties shall include, but not be limited to:

• Work with the Artistic Director, the Managing Director and the production department in planning, scheduling and delivering season activities, on time and on budget, including developing and managing season budgets and providing analysis on a show-by-show basis;
• Work with colleagues at the NAC to ensure full support of productions including venue scheduling; box office documentation; marketing and communications needs; Finance requirements etc.
• Assist with the scheduling and delivery of corollary engagement activities;
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with co-producers, presenters and the local, provincial and national theatre community, including associations such as IPAA, PACT, CAEA and UdA;
• Work with colleagues at the NAC to implement and promote company-wide practices to ensure a safe, healthy and welcoming environment for all who work here, including visiting artists;
• Specific health and safety responsibilities include but are not limited to: ensuring cultural protocols presenced; working with the Technical Director to communicate safety protocol; facilitating Not in Our Space, and assessing the need for and creating extraordinary risk riders;
• Support the Associate Producer/Company Manager in the care and coordination of visiting artists with administrative staff and stage management;
• Reconcile and negotiate final settlements with co-producers and presented companies;
• Contract artists, directors and stage management under terms and conditions of the Canadian Theatre Agreement and associated agreements;
• Work with the Production department to contract designers under the terms and conditions of appropriate agreements;
• Work with the Managing Director on all budgets, budget management, co-production and presentation agreements;
• Day-to-day department-specific financial management, including pay schedules and payment requests for actors, stage management, designers, independent artists etc.
• Ensure all licensing agreements are in place;
• Support the Associate Producer/Company Manager in creating and maintaining documents for incoming productions and/or artists;
• Oversee the Associate Producer and Associate Producer #ReconileThis
• Participate in mentoring and leadership exchange opportunities as required.