Cinema Production Manager Position Available

 

The Department of Cinema at San Francisco State University is seeking

applicants for a new non-tenured faculty position: Cinema Production

Manager.

 

Scope

This is a full atime position. The person filing the post will be

responsible for managing the Cinema Department production facilities

and for coordinating  various curricular production activities for

faculty, staff and students.

 

Duties

The Cinema Production Manager will supervise and coordinate

production activities, the scheduling of class and idividual use of

Cinema Department facilities and equipment. In consultation with the

Department Chair, faculty and staff, he/she will establish and

maintain day to day operatonal procedures for department facilities

and equipment.

 

Duties of the Production Manager may iclude:

  1) acting as Chair of the Department Producton Committee.

  2) Working closely with staff and faculty to prepare

      recommendations for equipment purchase, facility improvement and

      capital outlay.

  3) Preparing reports and future budget requests to support the

      production curriculum.

  4) Establishing and monitor guidelines for safe operation of

      department facilities.

  5) Providing orientation and initiate training for student and

      graduate assistants employed in Cinema facilities.

  6) Supervising students employed in above capacities.

  7) Coordinating facilities and equipment maintenance and repair with

      staff and Creative Arts Technical Services.

  8) Assessing the need for and initiate acquisition of technical and

       procedural information, including text and video, for use in classes

       and Departmental Labs. Maintain a library of such information.

 

Teaching

The Cinema Production Manager will teach courses related to the

duties listed above, as well as production courses such as CINE 310

Workshop in Production, CINE 315 Cinema Production: Technical Crew

and CINE 519 Soundstage Workshop.

 

Qualifications

Cinema Production Manager must have exceptional communication and

problem solving skills. He/she must have management experience

working in a film or media production facility. His/her background

should include practical experience supervising a sound stage, and

equipment/facility scheduling. Experiece in facility planning,

production budgeting, equipment specification is preferred: expertise

with computer budgeting/scheduling applications is desired.

 

Cinema Production Manager must have teaching experience in film or

related media.

An M.F.A. or evidence of equivalent experiece is preferred.

 

The cinema Department

The Cinema Department is comitted to a curriculum which reconizes

cinema to be an independent, powerful and unique medium in the world.

Cunema programs combine theory and practice; students are encouraged

to engage in scholarship and to pursue production in all forms of

cinematic expression. Degrees offered are a B.A. in Cinema, with

possible emphasis in animation, an M.A. in Cinema studies, and an

M.F.A in Cinema; a minor in Cinema is also possible.

 

Application Information

Interested individuals should send a letter of interest and detailed

curriculum vitae by April 1, 1997, to:

    Cinema Production Manager Search

    Cinema Department

    San Francisco State University

    1600 Holloway Ave.

    San Francisco, CA 94132

 

College of Creative Arts

Department of Cinema

   AI 245, 415 338-1629

   FAX 415-338-0906

 

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