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AI Logan Center

About the Department

Designed as a home for creative life of the University of Chicago campus and the City of Chicago, the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is a partner, resource, and catalyst for developing deeper cultural networks and richer creative projects at the University, across Chicago and beyond. An innovative hub for arts education and artistic practice, the Logan Center and its satellite spaces (MADD Center and Edelstone Darkroom) provides an environment that catalyzes creative inquiry and supports the arts practice and scholarship of our students, faculty, and staff often in partnership with the broader community. The 180,000-square-foot multidisciplinary University arts center - the Logan Center is designed to encourage collaboration across the artistic spectrum. With classroom and performance spaces supporting a full range of disciplines-theater, cinema, dance, music, creative writing, and visual arts.

A platform to showcase today\'s most innovative creators across all media, the Logan Center acts as a locus for impactful and collaborative artistic programs with partners in nearby South Side communities and across Chicago and serves as a key catalyst for collaborative arts programming across the University. The Logan Center is committed to advancing artistic practice, inspiring creativity across generations, developing authentic partnerships on and off campus, evoking curiosity and discovery through transformative arts experiences, and advancing the University\'s commitment to diversity and inclusion, excellence, collaboration, and innovation. To learn more please visit https://www.logancenter.uchicago.edu/.

Job Summary

The Director of Logan Center Facilities and Operations has overall responsibility for ensuring that the facility and operations advance the artistic practice and creative scholarship of the University\'s students and faculty and supports a vibrant set of arts programs presented in partnership with colleagues and organizations at the University, in the community and beyond. Working closely with each of the arts curricular, and University and community partner programs that use the Logan Center, the Director oversees facility operations, schedule management, curricular space, and event support; supervises professional and student operations staff; develops and monitors budgets; formulates plans for building projects and ensures facility maintenance, custodial care, food service operations, and safety and security advance the priorities of the Logan Center and our many users. The Director reports directly to the Executive Director of the Logan Center and works closely with University Facilities Services to oversee all maintenance programs and repairs.

Responsibilities

Develops and administers policies and procedures regarding the use of the Logan Center that support the users of the Center and the long-term condition of the Logan Center, its facilities, furniture, fixtures, and equipment.

Manages facility scheduling with direct responsibility for scheduling all shared and public spaces. Works closely with the University Registrar to schedule classroom spaces. Works closely with departments and programs in the Logan Center to coordinate scheduling across unit-controlled spaces.

Manages and supports classrooms and curricular use of the Logan Center working closely with the academic programs that use the Logan Center, Registrar, and Logan Center Arts Technology team.

Manages overall event and program operations and production support including working with University departments and external partners hosting events and programs at the Logan Center, as well as, the Logan Center Program and Engagement team.

Directs the day to-day operations, custodial, maintenance, repairs and receiving needs for the Logan Center.

Works closely with University Facilities Services to provide senior leadership to custodial, event set up, on-going routine maintenance, and engineering.

Supports internally generated facility requests from faculty and staff housed in the Center, including set-up, breakdown, repairs, and general assistance with individual space and scheduling needs and projects. Advises, coordinates and supervises events taking place in the Logan Center.

Responsible for facility related regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, and sustainability efforts.

Works closely with the Department of Safety and Security to provide senior leadership to access control and surveillance camera systems and overall safety within the Center.

Supervises the Associate Director of Logan Center Production, Assistant Director, and Evening & Weekend Manager. Supports managers who supervise the Scheduling & Events Coordinator, Production Manager, and other part-time and student staff

Works closely with the Assistant Director and University sub-contractors to provide senior oversight of custodial and safety and security personnel.

With Facilities Services, co-manages the Logan Center Building Engineer.

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