I am a board member at a local black box community theater.-about 120 seats.  We have recently had some struggles as do most theaters from time to time and we agreed to hire someone who loves this theater, on a part time trial basis, to help run the theater. 

 

She has executive director as her title and she reports to the executive committee of the board.  She has no specific theater qualifications except that she was in a position to take on this responsibility.  We have a new part time office manager and many new board members and a theater who needed someone who could help raise money, seek out and write grants, and make sure the theater was running as it should.

 

We have 2 other standing committees - Business and Production.

 

We are having several problems with our current structure -

#1 this exec director is a bit of a prima donna and is not always respectful to the board members.  If she needs something from someone, she knows how to work it, though. 

#2 the lines are very blurred between the exec and office positions. this exec dir seems to want to micro-manage.

 

I need to get suggestions for specific executive director and office manager duties.

 

I also need to see a sample of a contract that we could use with this exec director. This is something we are trying to rectify and should have had it months ago.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.