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| Title | Organization | Location | Description | Salary/Pay Range | Apply | Application Deadline |
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| Upper School Long-Term Substitute Performing Arts Associate Teacher of Dance and Arts Coordinator | Germantown Academy | Fort Washington, PA | We are seeking a dedicated, experienced, and versatile Performing Arts Teacher to serve as a maternity leave substitute from 12/1/26-3/14/27. | $164/day | Interested applicants should apply online at: https://www.germantownacademy.net/about/work-ga/ga-job-board/~board/workga/post/upper-school-long-term-substitute-performing-arts-associate-teacher-of-dance-and-arts-coordinator | 10/1/2026 |
| Lead Development Associate | Ballet Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | Ballet Arkansas seeks an experienced Development Associate with demonstrated fundraising success to strengthen donor engagement, cultivate community relationships, and advance contributed revenue. | $50,000-$65,000 + Benefits | Send application to michael@nullballetarkansas.org | 10/1/2026 |
| School Faculty Member | Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education | Tulsa, OK | TBCDE is seeking a passionate and highly skilled dance educator with professional performance experience in classical ballet and a minimum of 5 years of teaching experience at the pre-pro level. | Starting at $40K | Interested candidates should submit a CV, video footage demonstrating their teaching style, and a cover letter to Lauren.Richter@nulltulsaballet.org by October 10th, 2026. | 10/10/2026 |
| Assistant Professor of Dance | Hamilton College | Clinton, NY | The Department of Dance and Movement Studies at Hamilton College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2027. | $94,500 - 100,360 | https://apply.interfolio.com/192489 | 10/19/2026 |
| Full-Time Faculty Member | Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet | Carlisle, Pennsylvania | Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) is seeking an experienced and passionate ballet educator to join our Faculty in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. | $60,000.00 + Benefits | Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) is seeking an experienced and passionate ballet educator to join our Faculty in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. CPYB has been Changing Lives Through Dance since 1955, with a mission to inspire, educate, and enrich lives through the training in and performance of classical ballet. We are looking for more than an exceptional teacher—we are looking for someone who genuinely wants to become part of the Culture of CPYB. Our Faculty teach and preserve Marcia Dale Weary’s proven teaching curriculum, while developing trusted relationships with students and working collaboratively with fellow faculty and Artistic Leadership to support each student’s growth. Faculty members are expected to bring meaningful professional and/or teaching experience, strong communication skills, a passion for educating young people, and a willingness to continually learn and grow themselves. CPYB’s faculty are trained in Weary’s curriculum, with an emphasis on correct, clearly articulated movement and individualized development. Culture Matters Here Technical knowledge and teaching ability are essential, but being the right Cultural fit is equally important to us. We are seeking someone who believes that how we work together matters. A successful CPYB Faculty Member is thoughtful, empathetic and responsive; communicates directly and listens to understand; builds trust; places Logic Before Ego; and is Unapologetic With Our Expectations for continuous improvement. They demonstrate a personal commitment to growth, support the success of the entire organization, bring positive energy and generosity to their work, and understand that changing the life of a student requires all of us working together. This is a full-time, exempt position with a variable schedule that includes daytime, evening, weekend, academic-year, summer-program and production responsibilities. Benefits include: health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, and life insurance. If you are passionate about teaching ballet, committed to helping young people become the very best versions of themselves, and want to be part of a team where Culture is something we live—not simply something we post on a wall—we would love to hear from you. Come help us Change Lives Through Dance. To apply: 1. Go to: https://cpyb.org/about/vision-mission-and-values/ and read about CPYB’s Values and Culture. 2. If this is a commitment you’d like to be considered for, email your CV and a statement of how you would be a Cultural fit at CPYB to ade@nullcpyb.org. 3. Someone from CPYB’s Artistic Leadership will communicate to you if or any next steps. | 10/22/2026 |
| Program Assistant | Mark Morris Dance Group | Brooklyn, NY | The Program Assistant provides essential customer service and program support to the Dance Center’s 5,000+ weekly visitors. | $20/hour | To join our team, please include a cover letter addressed to Tiffany McCue, Dance Center Operations Manager, with your resume submission at https://grnh.se/c2106bfb7us. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. In your cover letter, please respond to the following question: Why are you interested in working at the Mark Morris Dance Group? | 10/23/2026 |
| School Assistant | Mark Morris Dance Group | Brooklyn, NY | School Assistant will provide administrative support, assist with registration and scheduling, support camps and special events, provide weekend front desk coverage, and occasionally sub. | $22/hour | To join our team, please submit your resume along with a cover letter addressed to Bianca Golden, Director of Education at https://grnh.se/c2106bfb7us. Cover letters must highlight relevant experience; resume submittals without a cover letter will not be considered. | 10/23/2026 |
| School Programs Manager | Mark Morris Dance Group | Brooklyn, NY | School Programs Manager supports the successful delivery of all School programming, including 100+ weekly classes, school year and summer camps, special programs and partnerships, and events. | $55,000-$65,000 | To join our team, please submit your resume along with a cover letter addressed to Bianca Golden, Director of Education at https://grnh.se/c2106bfb7us. Cover letters must highlight relevant experience; resume submittals without a cover letter will not be considered. | 10/23/2026 |
| 2027 Choreographic Residency | Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, GA | The KSU Choreographic Residency program invites two nationally-emerging or mid-career choreographers to the Department of Dance for a four-week residency to create two world premieres. | $5000 | Learn more and apply at https://campus.kennesaw.edu/colleges-departments/arts/academics/dance/performances-events/choreographic-residency.php | 10/30/2026 |
| Artistic Director | Eastern Connecticut Ballet | East Lyme, CT | Eastern CT Ballet seeks an experienced Artistic Director to direct its school and pre-professional program, inspiring young dancers through exceptional training, artistry, performance, and leadership. | $85,000 - $100,000 | If you are interested in this position, please send a cover letter stating your artistic and educational philosophy, your resume and 3 professional references to: resumes@nulleasternctballet.org | 10/31/2026 |
| Vice President Human Resources | Miami City Ballet | Miami Beach, FL | Lead strategic HR at Miami City Ballet, advising executive leadership on workforce planning, employee relations, compensation, compliance, culture, and organizational effectiveness. | $160,000 - $170,000 per year | ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Organizational Strategy and Workforce Planning Partner with the Executive Director and senior leadership team to assess organizational structure, staffing needs, management capacity, and workforce priorities. Maintain a clear organizational structure that defines reporting relationships, levels of responsibility, titles, and decision authority across the institution. Lead workforce planning in coordination with organizational strategy and approved budgets. Evaluate proposed positions and hires based on institutional need, organizational structure, financial capacity, and established approval processes. Ensure hiring activity is consistent with executive direction, approved staffing plans, and organizational priorities. Identify areas where responsibilities, workload, staffing levels, or management capacity may create organizational risk. Recommend changes to roles, reporting structures, staffing models, or management practices when organizational needs evolve. Executive and Management Partnership Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Director and senior leaders on organizational structure, workforce matters, employee relations, performance, compensation, and culture. Provide managers with clear guidance and tools for supervision, performance management, employee development, and difficult personnel decisions. Ensure managers understand their responsibilities as people leaders and hold them accountable for fulfilling those responsibilities. Surface significant workforce concerns to the Executive Director promptly, with appropriate context, options, risks, and recommendations. Exercise independent judgment while recognizing when matters require executive, legal, financial, or board involvement. Employee Engagement and Organizational Health Establish consistent mechanisms for understanding employee experience, workload, engagement, management effectiveness, and emerging areas of concern. Maintain appropriate contact with employees across departments and organizational levels so that workforce issues can be identified before they become crises whenever reasonably possible. Monitor patterns in turnover, absenteeism, workload, employee relations, exit interviews, and other indicators of organizational health. Identify trends and recommend organizational responses when patterns suggest structural, management, cultural, or capacity concerns. Develop practices that support clear communication, professional growth, employee recognition, and a healthy workplace culture. Ensure employees affected by significant workplace changes receive timely, accurate, and appropriately coordinated communication. Talent Acquisition and Organizational Capacity Lead an intentional hiring process based on clearly defined organizational needs and approved positions. Ensure job descriptions accurately reflect responsibilities, organizational level, required capabilities, reporting relationships, and compensation ranges. Partner with hiring managers to establish selection criteria and evaluate candidates against the capabilities required by the role. Maintain appropriate approval controls throughout the recruitment process so that offers are not advanced without required organizational authorization. Develop onboarding practices that establish clear expectations, responsibilities, policies, and organizational context from the beginning of employment. Build succession and continuity planning for critical organizational roles Compensation, Benefits and Employee Systems Develop and maintain a coherent compensation framework that establishes appropriate levels, titles, salary ranges, and internal relationships across the organization. Regularly assess compensation practices for internal consistency, external competitiveness, affordability, and compliance. Ensure employees and managers understand applicable benefits and that enrollment, eligibility, changes, leave, COBRA, and other benefit processes are administered accurately and promptly. Proactively identify available options when employee benefit circumstances require individual attention or resolution. Partner with Finance to ensure alignment among compensation, payroll, benefits, staffing plans, and the approved institutional budget. Ensure performance evaluation and compensation processes are timely, consistent, documented, and connected to organizational expectations. Employee Relations and Performance Management Provide leadership on employee relations matters, including performance concerns, workplace complaints, disciplinary actions, investigations, accommodations, and separations. Ensure employee concerns are addressed promptly, consistently, professionally, and with appropriate documentation. Coach managers in addressing performance issues early rather than allowing unresolved concerns to accumulate. Conduct or oversee workplace investigations as appropriate and engage employment counsel when circumstances warrant. Maintain appropriate confidentiality while ensuring relevant decision makers receive the information necessary to fulfill their responsibilities. Employment Compliance and Workforce Risk Maintain current knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and ensure MCB's employment practices remain compliant. Oversee compliance related to wage and hour requirements, FMLA, ADA, employment eligibility, Forms I 9, unemployment matters, required workplace policies, and other employment obligations. Identify employment related risks proactively and recommend appropriate corrective or preventive action. Understand relevant collective bargaining agreements and other employment related contractual obligations and ensure HR practices are consistent with those requirements. Partner with the Executive Director, Finance, legal counsel, and other leaders on matters where employment risk intersects with financial, operational, contractual, insurance, or institutional risk. Maintain appropriate documentation and internal controls for employment related decisions and processes. Policies, Systems and Documentation Maintain an effective and current employee handbook and HR policies appropriate to MCB's workforce and operating environment. Establish repeatable HR processes that do not depend on individual memory or informal practice. Maintain accurate and confidential personnel records and ensure required documentation is complete and accessible to authorized personnel. Regularly review HR processes for effectiveness, efficiency, consistency, and compliance. Ensure institutional knowledge related to HR practices is appropriately documented and transferable. Leadership and Accountability Establish annual HR priorities aligned with MCB's institutional goals and report progress to the Executive Director. Develop meaningful workforce indicators that allow leadership to understand organizational health, staffing trends, retention, compensation, recruitment, and other material people issues. Communicate significant issues promptly and distinguish between matters requiring immediate action and those requiring longer term attention. Follow through reliably on commitments, deadlines, executive directives, and required communications. Bring recommendations, not simply problems, to executive leadership whenever circumstances allow. Model sound judgment, discretion, accountability, empathy, and institutional stewardship. QUALIFICATIONS Significant progressive human resources leadership experience, including responsibility for organizational structure, employee relations, compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, performance management, and employment compliance. Demonstrated experience operating as a strategic partner to a CEO, Executive Director, or senior leadership team. Strong working knowledge of federal and Florida employment law and contemporary HR practices. Demonstrated ability to identify organizational and workforce risks and translate them into practical recommendations and action. Experience developing compensation structures, organizational charts, job architecture, and workforce plans. Demonstrated ability to navigate sensitive employee matters with sound judgment, empathy, discretion, and appropriate urgency. Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to establish priorities, meet deadlines, and bring complex work to completion. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in an organization with varied employee populations, work schedules, employment arrangements, and professional disciplines. Experience working in a performing arts, nonprofit, unionized, educational, or similarly complex environment is preferred. SHRM SCP, SPHR, or comparable senior HR credential preferred. LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS Success in this position requires more than technical HR knowledge. The Vice President must be able to anticipate, advise, organize, communicate, and act. The successful leader will: See patterns before isolated issues become institutional problems. Ask questions when information is incomplete rather than allowing assumptions to stand. Create clarity where roles, expectations, or processes are ambiguous. Balance employee advocacy with responsibility to the institution. Know when to act independently and when to escalate. Communicate difficult information clearly and constructively. Build trust through consistency, responsiveness, judgment, and follow through. Design systems that allow good people to succeed rather than relying on individual heroics. The Vice President of Human Resources is ultimately accountable for helping ensure that Miami City Ballet has the people practices, organizational clarity, and workforce infrastructure necessary to support its mission and the people entrusted to carry it. To apply, please submit cover letter and resume to mcbjobs@nullmiamicityballet.org | 10/31/2026 |
| Senior Manager, Community Impact | Ballet Austin | Austin, TX | The Senior Manager of Ballet Austin’s Community Impact Program is responsible for managing and coordinating community-centered programs that enhance the health, well-being and quality of life of the p | $58,000 - 60,000 | Please find the full job description here: https://balletaustin.org/about/careers/ | 10/31/2026 |
| Assistant Professor of Dance (tenure track) | Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | The School for Classical & Contemporary Dance at TCU invites applications for the position Assistant Professor of Dance (tenure track) to teach contemporary dance technique and related courses. | $70,000-80,000 | Please see: https://jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-dance-in-the-college-of-fine-arts-tcu-main-campus-texas-united-states | 11/1/2026 |
| Second Company Director | Sacramento Ballet | Sacramento, CA | Sacramento Ballet seeks a Second Company Director to lead training, repertoire, and mentorship for its pre-professional program, bridging the School and main Company. Desired start date December 2026. | $70,000 | Submit your resume and a cover letter to executiveassistant@nullsacballet.org. For more information, please visit: https://www.sacballet.org/careers/. The ideal candidate is a former professional dancer who has traded the stage for the studio without losing your love of performance. You teach with rigor and warmth in equal measure, and you take real pride in watching a dancer’s artistry and technique mature under your guidance. You are comfortable representing Sacramento Ballet and SBSC publicly, whether that is a lecture-demonstration, a rehearsal studio, or a pre-show speech, and you bring the same care to the practical side of running a program: budgets, schedules, and finding new opportunities to grow SBSC. | 11/3/2026 |
| Director, TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance | Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | The School for Classical & Contemporary Dance at TCU invites applications for the position of Director. This leadership position is a tenured faculty position with an administrative appointment. | $90,000-120,000 (negotiable, dependent upon rank, comes with stipend) | Please see: https://jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/director-of-the-school-for-classical-contemporary-dance-tcu-main-campus-texas-united-states | 11/15/2026 |
| Executive Director | Atlanta Ballet | Atlanta, GA | Atlanta Ballet seeks an experienced Executive Director who is a strategic, relationship‑centered leader who brings financial rigor, operational discipline, and a deep respect for artistic excellence. | Commensurate with experience | Learn more about this opportunity here: https://boardwalkconsulting.com/jobs/atlanta-ballet-executive-director/ For potential consideration or to recommend a prospect, please email AtlantaBalletED@nullBoardWalkConsulting.com or call Sam Pettway, Demeika Wheaton, or Patti Kish, at 404-262-7392. | 11/30/2026 |
| Artistic Director | Chamber Dance Project | Washington, DC | Chamber Dance Project seeks a dynamic and boldly creative leader to drive the company's evolution forward. This is a part-time position, with a full-time arrangement available for the right candidate. | This is a part-time position - 20 hours weekly • Salary range is $45,000 to $55,000 annually, commensurate with experience • A full-time arrangement is available for the right candidate, with compensation prorated accordingly | CDP has partnered with Sweibel Arts to identify the exceptional individual who will fill this role. Visit SweibelArts.com/open-positions/ for more information. Candidates are invited to submit an expression of interest electronically to jobs@nullsweibelarts.com. No phone calls, please. Choreographers are invited to share two complete works digitally. No highlight reels, please. Dancers are invited to share a video representing their work including teaching and running rehearsals. A review of prospective candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Finalists will be asked to spend a paid week working with the company during our Jan 2027 rehearsal and performance season. This is a confidential recruiting process. To learn more about CDP, please visit Chamberdance.org. | 12/1/2026 |
| Group Live Stream Dancer | Ordient Entertainment | Los Angeles CA | We're looking for dancers with strong stage presence to perform in live shows, create content, and participate in official TikTok events. Competitive pay, performance bonuses, and growth opportunities | $40,000-70,000 | Requirements: Must be 18+ and based in Los Angeles Please send your resume, a dance video, your MBTI personality type, and your social media handles ( tiktok & ins) to jj@nullordientent.com | 12/31/2026 |
| Open Rank Professor, 9 Month Salaried | Florida State University School of Dance | Tallahassee, Florida | The Florida State University School of Dance seeks a dynamic, collaborative leader to fill an Open Rank faculty position in Lighting and Visual Design while serving as Director of Production. | Minimum $74,000 | Apply online at https://jobs.fsu.edu/ - search job opening ID 63467 Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: FSU is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer | 1/1/2027 |
| Chief Development Officer | Los Angeles Ballet | Los Angeles, CA | The Chief Development Officer will have the opportunity to work with passionate, engaged leadership, a dynamic artistic team, and dedicated staff while being an important member of the growth team. | $150,000 annually | To apply for this position, visit: https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/9101. | 8/21/2027 |
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| Midwest College & Company Audition | Indy Dance Council | Dance Kaleidoscope Studios, Indianapolis, Indiana | Through a single audition, dancers will have the opportunity to be seen by more than a dozen college dance programs and professional companies from across the Midwest—all in one place, on one day. Whether you’re preparing for college, launching your professional career, or exploring your next step, this is your chance to connect with outstanding programs and companies from across the region. Registration opens September 2026. | $100 registration fee | Fill out THIS form & follow instructions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaybLPWvpKIOLDFAto05Jg2Kl8C1px4CubjDqi7JmwUVlMJA/viewform | 10/18/2026 | 10/18/2026 11:00 am - 6:00 pm |
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