The Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation in Leadville is seeking its first-ever executive director to guide the Tabor Opera House into its next phase of life.
The new director will lead the Foundation in meeting its mission and vision to revitalize the opera house as a community center of arts, culture, and entertainment.
“This role will launch the vision of our non-profit organization in ways that we have never before experienced, moving us that much closer to a revitalized Tabor Opera House serving as a community center of arts, culture and entertainment,” said Jenny Buddenborg, president of the Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation.
“We are eager to find the right person to help lead our ambitious goals to fully rehabilitate the historic Tabor Opera House while offering quality programming to our diverse audiences for the benefit of the Leadville community and beyond.”
Job responsibilities will include overseeing the Foundation’s administration and strategic plan and the building’s historic rehabilitation. Other job duties include fundraising and financing, programming, and community outreach and engagement.
Among the key competencies required is cultivating relationships within a diverse community setting, including with underrepresented communities. The candidate must also demonstrate a passion to effectively steward the Tabor Opera House and Leadville history for the benefit of the historic property, community identity, and downtown revitalization efforts.
A bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, is required. Desired areas of study include non-profit management/public administration, business, finance, marketing/communications, history/historic preservation, or theatre studies.
The candidate must have a minimum five years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector, preferably in the performing arts or historic property management. Experience fundraising, managing budgets, marketing, and managing building space leases and rentals are also among the qualifications.
The salary range is $50,000 to $60,000, plus benefits, and depends on experience and qualifications. All who are interested may apply at TaborOperaHouse.net.
About the Tabor Opera House
Mining magnate Horace (H.A.W.) Tabor built the opera house in 1879 in just 100 days in one of the West’s rowdiest silver boomtowns. Today, in a town with no community center, no movie theater, and no formal performance spaces, the Tabor Opera House remains a much-needed cultural and community center.
Yet this elegant building, deemed a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has been endangered by nearly a century and a half of long winters in North America’s highest-elevation city. It is now embarking on a multi-year, $15 million rehabilitation. Learn more and follow project progress at www.taboroperahouse.net and on Facebook at @taboroperafoundation.
