[e-drive][JOB: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, BOSTON]

[Kaethe Yanovsky]

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Employment Opportunity

BOSTON BALLET
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

The Boston Ballet, one of the world's leading ballet companies, is
assembling a senior management team under the leadership of new Artistic
Director Mikko Nissinen and new Executive Director Valerie Wilder, to
ensure the artistic and financial future for the organization. The newly
created position of Chief Financial Officer will be responsible for
managing all financial aspects of the company, as well as being a key
player in the design and implementation of multi-year institutional
planning, financial modeling, and budgeting.


THE BOSTON BALLET:

One of the largest and most successful ballet companies in the United
States, the Boston Ballet has an annual budget of approximately $23
million. The company has perhaps the highest per capita market reach of
any ballet company in the world. Its annual activities include a main
season of five productions performed at Boston's Wang Center, the
commissioning of new works by famous choreographers, the holiday
Nutcracker performances, and an extensive array of audience outreach,
community service, and education programs.  Its dance school, the Center
for Dance Education, is the world's largest, with over 2,000 students.
With an established record as an extremely successful marketing
organization, the Boston Ballet has recently increased its level of
unrestricted contributed support by more than 100 per cent through the
concerted efforts of management, supporters, and trustees. 

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
plans, manages, and monitors all financial aspects of the company,
including but not limited to the company's operating and capital
budgets, and special projects. The CFO supervises the Finance
Department's operations including general accounting, financial
forecasting, operational cost accounting, tax compliance, budget
planning, cash management, endowment investments, the annual audit, risk
management and insurance, and the monitoring of cash, bank loan, and
investments activity. The position will grow and develop with the Boston
Ballet itself, whose long-term plans include substantial growth in its
Endowment Fund. 	


The CFO is the management liaison with the Finance Committee of the
Board and is responsible for presenting all pertinent financial
information to the Board at appropriate intervals. The Finance
Department staff currently includes a Controller who is a CPA, an
Assistant Controller, and two full-time accountants/administrators.
Software systems in place include Macola (for accounting), Paciolan (box
office), Raiser's Edge (fundraising), and a customized school
application.  Depending on his/her experience and the company's needs,
the CFO may also be assigned management responsibility for other
functional areas such as Human Resources or Information Systems.

QUALIFICATIONS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

Given the dynamic thrust of this growing organization, it is imperative
that the new CFO have strong people and communication skills, an
innovative spirit, the ability to deal with a diverse organizational
mandate, and the flexibility and skill to deal with a variety of
financial, accounting, and managerial challenges as they arise. Working
closely with a team of senior department heads, the CFO needs to ensure
that administrative and operational costs are being monitored and
evaluated effectively. The CFO is a crucial leader in the company who
will provide guidance and creativity in financial planning and analysis.


The CFO would be expected to hold a master's degree in business
management, accounting, or finance, with an emphasis on finance,
accounting, planning, and not for profit administration. He or she
should have at least ten years' experience in the not for profit
cultural sector with supervisory general management, accounting, and
finance responsibilities.

Knowledge of and passion for the performing arts in general, and ballet
in particular, are essential.

COMPENSATION:

This senior level package will be developed to meet the candidate's
senior level experience and capabilities.

TO APPLY: 

Please send letters of interest and resume no later than Friday,
September 6, 2002 by mail or fax to Margaret Genovese, Genovese,
Vanderhoof & Associates, 77 Carlton Street, Suite 1103, Toronto, Ontario
M5B 2J7. Fax: 416/340-6276. E-mail: gvasearch at aol.com. For more
information regarding the Boston Ballet itself, please see its web site:
www.bostonballet.com.





HISTORY of BOSTON BALLET


	Boston Ballet was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams was
the first professional repertory ballet company in New England.  Under
the leadership of Artistic Director Bruce Marks (1985-1997) and followed
by Anna-Marie Holmes (1997-2000), the Ballet's national and
international reputation has grown. The Company is now one of the top
five ballet companies in North America and among the top companies in
the world. Mikko Nissinen was appointed Artistic Director, in September
2001. Under his excellent leadership Boston Ballet plans to present
program choreography by choreographers of the highest caliber, offer
great variety in repertoire, and allow dancers to grow in new
directions. Valerie Wilder was appointed the Company's new Executive
Director in 2002. She comes to Boston Ballet from the National Ballet of
Canada, where she has been Excecutive Director for six years and has a
28-year background as a dancer and administrator. 
Mr. Nissinen has announced the new artistic staff and the roster of
company dancers for the 2002-03 Season, which includes one new principal
dancer and three new soloists. The new dancers are Roman Rykine,
principal dancer, and Melanie Atkins, Miao Zong, and Alexander Ritter,
soloists. Trinidad Vives, Associate Artistic Director at Houston Ballet,
has been named Boston Ballet's Artistic Associate, a newly created
position. Three new artistic staff have also been named: Ballet Master
Raymond Lukens, who has also been appointed Director of Boston Ballet
II, Ballet Master Anthony Randazzo, and Ballet Mistress Eva Evdokimova.
In addition, there will be four new corps de ballet members and eight
dancers who are part of the apprentice company, Boston Ballet II. 
Boston Ballet continues its mission to bring to New England audiences
the finest in classical and contemporary ballet.  The Ballet's 39th
season is marked by an emphasis on leading choreographers, abundant
variety, and newer works. With a world premiere from Jorma Elo of
Netherlands Dance Theater, as well as several company premieres on tap
for the season, Nissinen moves the Company forward artistically.
	Boston Ballet is committed to maintaining a repertoire that
combines timeless classics such as The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan
Lake, and Romeo and Juliet, with the imaginative visions of today's most
innovative choreographers.  In preserving the integrity of the classics,
the company invites legendary dancers and choreographers to assist with
staging and coaching, thus assuring that their talents and experiences
are handed down through the generations.  
	Throughout its history, Boston Ballet has been a pioneer.  In
1979, Boston Ballet opened the Nervi Festival in Italy, and in 1980 was
the first American dance company to perform in the People's Republic of
China.  The Company made its London Premiere, in 1981, with a
full-length production of Swan Lake.  In 1983, Boston Ballet presented
Don Quixote with Rudolf Nureyev as special guest artist on Broadway,
after touring the United States, Mexico, France, and Italy. The Company
presented Mark Morris' Mort Subite at the PepsiCo Festival in Purchase,
New York, in 1986.  The following year Boston Ballet was the first
ballet company to perform at the prestigious BESSIE Dance and
Performance award ceremony at City Center in New York.  In 1988, at the
Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in South Carolina, Monica Levy's World Premiere
Ghosts was performed.  The entire Company was featured at the 1989
Spoleto Festival.  Boston Ballet 
2/ History of Boston Ballet

was the first major dance company to commission works from contemporary
choreographers Mark Morris, Susan Marshall, Ralph Lemon, and Elisa
Monte.  
	In May 1990, Natalia Dudinskaya and Konstantin Sergeyev, along
with then  artistic director, Ms. Holmes, directed the collaboration
between Boston Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, and The Bolshoi Ballet for an
18-performance production of Swan Lake. This historic production
attracted international attention and brought Boston Ballet into the
forefront of the international dance scene. In recent years the company
has added Michael Corder's award-winning Cinderella, the American
Premiere of Le Corsaire, John Cranko's Onegin and The Taming of the
Shrew to its repertoire.
	The Company made a triumphant debut at The Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C. in January 1990, and in July 1991, Boston Ballet toured
throughout Spain.
	Boston Ballet's primary performing venue is the 3,600-seat Wang
Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, where the Company performs its
large-scale story ballets.  The Company performs its winter/spring
repertory programs in the intimate Shubert Theatre. The Company's
month-long production of The Nutcracker, updated in 1995 with new
scenery and costumes, and choreography by corps de ballet dancer, Gianni
DiMarco, attracts an annual attendance of more than 140,000 people.  It
is the most widely attended ballet production in the world.  
	The Company does much more than just offer performances.  Boston
Ballet operates an affiliate school with more than 2000 students, and
the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education offers numerous educational
and outreach activities for the community.  Programs include Citydance,
a tuition-free "Introduction to Dance" program for students in Boston
and Lynn public schools and discounted tickets for college students.
Every year Boston Ballet performs three special matinees for nearly
12,000 school children. 
	The Company's headquarters at 19 Clarendon Street in Boston's
South End neighborhood is one of the largest and best-equipped dance
spaces in the country.  Designed by renowned architect Graham Gund, this
five-story, 60,000-square-foot building is one of the most important hub
locations for dance in New England.
	The company's achievements, coupled with the generous and
prestigious support of numerous local and national funding sources, have
dramatically strengthened Boston Ballet's position as a world-class
ballet company within the local, national, and international arts
communities.   		

"...[This is] a company in the very first rank.  We are accustomed to
Boston having one of the great symphonies of the world.  The town has
now gotten itself a ballet company that meets that standard."
						- Clive Barnes in Dance
Magazine