Job Description

About Our Job

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose - for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offer competitive pay commensurate with education and experience. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service

• 457B Retirement Plan

• 140 hours of PTO earned within first year + 12 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, 1 Wellness Day and 1 volunteer day per year

• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date

Location

This position will work out of our offices at 1245 Champa Street and at the newly renovated Theatre at Loretto Heights once it opens in 2028. The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. In this position you will work in person at least 3 days per week with 2 days remote (depending on project and work requirements). Frequent visits to project sites around the City are required. Employees must work within the state of Colorado on their off-site days.

Denver Arts & Venues (DAV) is the City and County of Denver agency responsible for overseeing Denver Public Art, grant programs like the Five Points Jazz Fund, and the development and implementation of the city’s cultural plan DENVER CREATES: A Collective Commitment to the Arts. DAV is also responsible for operating some of the region’s most renowned facilities, including Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Colorado Convention Center, Denver Coliseum, McNichols Civic Center Building and Theatre at Loretto Heights.

DAV is committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as a fundamental guiding value and a practice woven into all of our strategies, initiatives, and decision-making processes. To address historic inequities and systemic racism, the City’s Equity Platform is focused on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and other historically marginalized communities, including but not limited to people with disabilities and LGBTQIA2S+. Ensuring meaningful representation from historically untapped and under resourced communities is essential to these practices.

For information about Denver Arts & Venues, visit our website at http://www.artsandvenuesdenver.com

Denver Arts & Venues (DAV) is developing new assets to its portfolio, expanding our footprint to ensure that world-class cultural infrastructure is accessible within the heart of Denver’s neighborhoods. As we activate the historic Loretto Heights campus, revitalize existing cultural hubs, and strengthen cultural collaborative initiatives across the city, we are seeking a strategic, relationship-oriented leader to oversee DAV’s place-based initiatives, and bridge some of our key city-owned facilities and the vibrant communities they serve, working collaboratively with agencies across the City. This role, which focuses on cultivating sustainable, high-impact partnerships that ensure Denver’s cultural investments drive equity, economic vitality, and artistic excellence across the city, has significant citywide impact.

Denver Arts & Venues is seeking a Director of DAV Place-based Cultural Partnerships This director-level leadership role is responsible for the strategic oversight and management of key place-based assets and institutional relationships in DAV’s expanding portfolio. This individual will serve as chief representative of the portfolio to City departments, outside agencies, elected officials and key stakeholders including but not limited to the City’s Department of Finance (DOF), Real Estate (RE), Community Planning and Development (CPD), Department of Economic Development & Opportunity (DEDO), Department of Transportation & Infrastructure (DOTI), Department of Human Rights and Community Partnerships (HRCP), and the Mayor’s Office (MO).

One primary focus of this position is to direct the complex, multi-year contract relationship with the institutional operating partner of the Theatre at Loretto Heights, ensuring a balanced and sustainable business model with robust cultural access, that serves as a cultural and educational beacon for the city. Reporting to DAV’s Deputy Executive Director and working in close collaboration with the agency’s venue directors, this role ensures that DAV’s cultural partnerships and venue assets such as the Theatre at Loretto Heights and McNichols Building meet the goals of DENVER CREATES, Denver’s Cultural Plan.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Theatre at Loretto Heights Partnerships Management: Oversee the multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts with operating partners and campus partners. Ensure that desired performance metrics for the first new venue added to the DAV portfolio in over a decade are met. Additional duties include but are not limited to:

  • Oversee Community & Stakeholder Relations, serving as the primary City liaison for key Loretto Heights campus stakeholders, including Commún, DSST College View Campus and Denver Public Schools, the Sisters of Loretto, local neighborhood associations, and the cultural sector.

  • Collaborate closely with DAV’s operations representative and the Loretto Heights Theatre Venue Director to ensure seamless facility management and activation.

  • Serve as liaison between partner and DAV’s advisory group for the Theatre.

• Loretto Heights Library Strategy: Lead the exploration of future uses for the currently unprogrammed Library at Loretto Heights (acquisition finalized in 2023 for $3M). While not part of the Theatre renovation project, it remains an important component of the overall campus. This responsibility includes managing a process with high-level decision makers at other City agencies to identify potential partners who can deliver on Citywide and DENVER CREATES goals while maintaining fiscal responsibility for the agency. Serving as DAV’s lead representative, this work includes but is not limited to leading work with campus partners, CPD and the City’s RE office on potential opportunities for the next stage of the library’s ownership and use.

• McNichols Civic Center Building Cultural Partnerships: Oversee and direct contract relationships with multiple partners at the McNichols Civic Center Building, including the museum partner on the second floor and new cultural partners on the first floor, ensuring high-quality public programming that meets the goals of DENVER CREATES. The goal of the new partnerships at the McNichols Building is part of a larger revitalization project to enhance the activation of the venue and the surrounding Civic Center Park while making it a destination for visitors to downtown. As such, this role will be the main representative for McNichols cultural partnerships in any downtown related work in collaboration with such agencies and stakeholders as DEDO, DOTI, Civic Center Conservancy and the Downtown Denver Partnership.

• Creative District Leadership: Lead DAV’s partnerships with Colorado’s Creative Districts in Denver – Art District on Santa Fe, Golden Triangle, RiNo, Westwood. This includes the oversight of annual creative district grants and program opportunities. As the main representative for State Certified Creative District Leadership, this position will ensure there is a connection with other City agencies that work on uncertified art & creative areas in Denver, self-identified cultural districts, and designated historic and historic cultural districts, which include DEDO and HRCP, among others.

• Jazz Legacy Partnership: Oversight of the Five Points Jazz program with the goal of honoring the history of jazz in Denver’s Harlem of the West and supporting artists and creators that continue this legacy in the Five Points neighborhood today. This work includes responsibility for DAV’s grant fund and collaboration with the Five Points BID.

• Cross-Sector & Cultural Collaboration: In partnership with the Deputy Executive Director for Arts & Culture, facilitate and manage additional high-level cultural partnerships that align with the agency's strategic vision and DENVER CREATES.

• Portfolio Management:

  • Financial Administration: Administer the financial operations of the portfolio, including developing the annual operating budget and preparing fiscal reports for review by executive leadership.

  • Reporting: Prepare reports and present all portfolio initiatives and accomplishments to key stakeholders including City leadership, elected officials, and agency representatives.

• Citywide Agency Representation: Serve as the chief representative of the portfolio to city departments, outside agencies, elected officials and key stakeholders including but not limited to the City’s DOF, RE, CPD, DEDO, DOTI, HRCP, and MO.

• Internal Coordination: Serve as the "connective tissue" between place-based partners and DAV, specifically Marketing and Venue Operations, to ensure all sites are supported by the agency’s full resource teams. Additionally, partner with the Director-level leadership of the Public Art and Cultural Affairs teams to ensure that DAV programs and initiatives reflect the goals of DENVER CREATES.

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Management, or a related field.

• Experience Requirement: Three (3) years of professional experience at the type and level of Management Analyst Senior or planning and conducting operational and/or management studies including determining study methods and procedures, analyzing data, developing recommendations and implementation strategies, and preparing reports of findings and recommendations.

• Education/Experience Equivalency: One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education.

About Everything Else

Job Profile

CA1609 Strategic Advisor

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Position Type

Unlimited

Position Salary Range

$101,050.00 - $166,733.00

Target Pay

Based on Experience and Education

Agency

Arts & Venues Denver

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