Available Positions

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for LegalArt’s staff, programs, growth and execution of its mission.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Management:
-Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; maintain timelines and resources needed to achieve strategic goals, including developing a multi-year strategic plan.
-Provide leadership, meaningful resources and opportunities for LegalArt resident artists, visiting curators and members.
-Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the Board, funders, media and other constituents.
-Actively engage and energize LegalArt members, volunteers, Board members, juries and selection committees, event committees, partnering organizations and funders.
-Oversee LegalArt’s financial matters, tax matters, human resources and resource planning and management.
-Develop, maintain and support a strong board of directors, serve as ex-officio of each Board committee, seek and build Board involvement with strategic direction for both local operations as well as for increasing national exposure.
Fundraising, Community Outreach & Communications:
-Expand and diversify local and national revenue sources to support existing program operations by developing fundraising plan, securing corporate, foundation and government grants; developing membership; producing an annual benefit and other fundraising events; and creating and implementing an individual giving strategy.
-Create a stronger brand identity locally and nationally through media relations, strategic partnerships, web and social media presence and other external relations.
-Expand local partnerships and develop partnerships in new markets.
-Establish relationships with funders, political and community leaders.
-Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS
The ED will be thoroughly committed to LegalArt’s mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, fundraising and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:
-Minimum 5 years relevant experience; track record of effectively leading a performance and outcomes based organization and staff. Arts administration and/or legal experience and education preferred
-Fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
-Ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
-Experience working with Salesforce and QuickBooks
-Extensive knowledge of, and experience working in, the visual art world
-Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
-Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
-Past success working with a board of directors with the ability to cultivate board member relationships
-Ability to oversee marketing and public relations endeavors
-Strong written and verbal communication skills
-Excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
-Action-oriented, entrepreneurial and adaptable
-Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
-Integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, intercultural sensitivity and a sense of humor

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. LegalArt is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified and interested candidates should submit resumes to: careers@legalartmiami.org

LegalArt is looking for a dedicated  intern! Our mission at LegalArt is to provide artists with affordable legal services, grants, educational opportunities, a residency program and we do so through three programs.

LegalLink: Provides artists with pro bono (free), barter, or reduced-rate legal referral assistance. For many artists LegalLink has been a vital resource in their attempts to protect their work and empower their careers.

SeminArt: Workshop and presentation series tailored to the needs of the professional artist. Not only are these sessions educational, but they provide an opportunity for artists and art professionals to meet and build relationships.

Live/Work Residency: Located on the third floor of the LegalArt building, the space houses six artists studios and one curatorial/writer apartment. Thought of as an incubator, artists in residence emerge after one year far more capable of realizing their greatest potential as both artists and stakeholders in the community.

Supervised by the Programs Coordinator, LegalArt interns work with artists and arts professionals to assist with program implementation, communication, and social networking.

Individual must have their own reliable form of transportation and be skilled in web design (word press,) video editing, microsoft word and excel.

Please email your resume and cover letter expressing your interest in the position to info@legalartmiami.org.

Internships are available for dedicated media artists looking to hone their skills and share their talents with LegalArts. LegalArt needs intern assistance with event photography, photo editing, website updates (including photo albums and videos), video, video editing, and design. Interns interested in working on the website need to be skilled in WordPress. Interns have the opportunity to assist with programs; contribute to the design of promotional materials; document events, workshops, open studios, and readings; and interact with artists and other arts professionals.

Please email your resume and cover letter expressing your interest areas and experience to info@legalartmiami.org.

Internships are available for law students who can commit to 10 hours of work each week.  Interns work in the LegalLink program under the supervision of the LegalLink Coordinator. LegalLink provides artists with pro bono, barter or reduced-rate legal referral assistance, which for many artists has been a vital resource in their attempts to protect their work and empower their careers.

LegalLink Interns work on and participate in client intake, case referral, case follow up, case analysis, legal research & writing, blogging on legal topics for our website, document review, and new attorney volunteer recruitment.  Interns also have the opportunity to attend LegalArt’s SeminArt and Brown Bag Programming. The Brown Bag lunch program is designed to introduce law students to the real practice of law by facilitating casual lunch conversations with a member of the legal profession. This is an opportunity to ask about how the attorney typically spends the day, what the best/worst things are about the job, the hours, the pay, the type of work–all the questions it is tough to find out in law school. Previous speakers have included Louis Tertocha, General Counsel for the Adrienne Arsht Center; Lauren Fernandez, Ryan Roman, & Daniel Schwartz, different practice and year associates from Akerman Senterfitt; and Jaime Rich Vining, Principal at intellectual property firm Friedland Vining.

LegalArt is looking for outgoing and motivated candidates that are  interested and experienced in the arts.  All applicants should send a resume, cover letter expressing your interest in the position, and a short writing sample to LegalLink@legalartmiami.org with the subject line LegalLink Internship (semester-i.e. Fall, Spring, or Summer).