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58 people are interested
Looking for board members who love music! South Shore area.
ORGANIZATION: ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
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58 people are interested
The Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s (https://atlanticsymphony.org/about-aso/) mission is to bring the highest level of symphonic orchestral music to the region through exceptional performances, innovative educational programs, and a commitment to integrating the arts into the life of the community. The ASO also serves to encourage the development of superb orchestral musicians, by providing a wide range of performance opportunities within a challenging but nurturing musical environment. For more information, please visit our website at AtlanticSymphony.org.
Organizational Mission:
The Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to bring the highest level of symphonic orchestral music to the region through exceptional performances, innovative educational programs, and a commitment to integrating the arts into the life of the community. The ASO also serves to encourage the development of superb orchestral musicians, by providing a wide range of performance opportunities within a challenging but nurturing musical environment. For more information, please visit our website at AtlanticSymphony.org.
Position:
The board supports the work of Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and provides mission-based leadership, strategic governance, and strategic planning and any needed follow through. While day-to-day operations are led by ASO’s Executive Director, the board-ED relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the board is both critical and expected. We are a working board.
Specific board member responsibilities include:
- Leadership, governance, oversight, strategic partnership, and strategy implementation when needed
- Serving as a trusted advisor to the ED as they develop and implement ASO’s strategic plan
- Reviewing outcomes and metrics created by ASO for evaluating ASO’s impact, and regularly measuring its performance and effectiveness using those metrics; reviewing agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings
- Approving ASO’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all, legal and fiduciary responsibilities
- Contributing to an annual performance evaluation of the ED
- Assisting the ED and board president in identifying and recruiting other board members
- Partnering with the ED and other board members to ensure that board resolutions are carried out
- Serving on a committee and/or taking on special assignments
- Representing ASO to stakeholders; acting as an ambassador for the organization
- Ensuring ASO’s commitment to a diverse board and staff that reflects the communities ASO serves
- Assist in recruiting both potential board members and trustees
Fundraising/giving responsibilities:
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Board Members will consider ASO a philanthropic priority. So that ASO can credibly solicit contributions from foundations, organizations, and individuals, ASO expects to have 100% of board members make an annual contribution that is commensurate with their capacity, in lieu of a set amount. Board members are also expected to create a personal (non-binding) fundraising plan.
Board terms/participation:
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s board members will serve a three-year term to be eligible for re-appointment for one additional term. Board meetings are held nine times per year (currently) and committee meetings will be held as determined by the members. Service on ASO’s Board of Directors is without remuneration, except for administrative support and reimbursement of approved expenses incurred for the sake of service.
Qualifications:
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s mission and who has a track record of board leadership/service, or other qualifications that will contribute to meaningful board service. His/her accomplishments will allow him/her to attract other well-qualified, high-performing board members.
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
- Extensive professional experience with significant executive leadership accomplishments in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector
- A commitment to and understanding of ASO’s work and beneficiaries, preferably based on experience
- Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a passion for ensuring the future and sustainability of the ASO
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About ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Location:
53 Winter St., Weymouth, MA 02188, US
Mission Statement
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra that serves the Greater Boston South Shore region. We bring local access to the highest level of symphonic music to our region, with a commitment to integrating high-quality performing arts into the life of the community. We work to educate audiences, create a strong connection to the music and the people who make it, and encourage the development of "the new generation" of outstanding orchestral musicians, who join us after a highly selective process. ASO has become one of the premier professional orchestras in New England, known for its level of play. Our musicians consist of both seasoned and gifted young professionals from the world’s leading conservatories. Most of our members have fellowed at Tanglewood, Aspen, Schleswig-Holstein, and Pacific Music Festivals. Many ASO players have earned positions in major symphony orchestras around the world, and make us proud to have served the field.
Description
Formed in 1946 as the Hingham Civic Orchestra - and reorganized, professionalized, and renamed 50 years later - Atlantic Symphony Orchestra has deep roots in the South Shore with a long and distinguished history as one of the oldest community orchestras in the Boston area.
We are happy to announce a recent grant from The Boston Foundation to underwrite a free public performance in the fall of 2018.
The ASO public performance season is designed to serve all residents of the communities of Greater Boston and the South Shore with accessible, high-quality live performances, and the regional community of professional classical musicians with employment and career development. A typical, fully funded season (October - April, with a "soft opening" in August) brings 4-5 symphonic concerts, 2-4 chamber concerts, 3-6 soloist highlights or concerts, an Up Close in Concert education series, a family friendly Discovery Concert, and a concerto competition for young professionals. Our season also provides lobby performance opportunities and "meet the orchestra" connections for high school musicians, performance partnerships with other regional organizations, and K-12 in-school educational outreach. Additionally, we provide reduced pricing programs for seniors, youth & young adults, service organizations and local chambers; free ticket programs for caregivers and regional public schools, non-profits, and other charities; and fundraising support programs for school & music booster groups.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
P.O. Box 259Hingham, MA 02043
DATE POSTED
March 23, 2024
SKILLS
- Public Relations
- Strategic Planning
- Business Analysis
- Fundraising
- Networking
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Monthly meetings, quarterly committee meetings, attend concerts during season