EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – Sacramento Ballet
Location: Sacramento, California

About Sacramento Ballet:
Sacramento Ballet is a premier regional ballet company committed to artistic excellence, community engagement, and education through the transformative power of dance. The 2025–26 season marks the 71st anniversary of the Company. With a robust calendar of performances, a thriving ballet school, and expanding outreach programs, Sacramento Ballet is a cultural cornerstone in the Capital region.

Position Summary:
The Executive Director serves as the chief administrative officer of the Sacramento Ballet Association (SBA), responsible for the exective leadership, strategy execution, and business operations of the Company. This role reports to the Board of Directors and works closely with the Artistic Director, committees, staff, and community stakeholders to ensure continued growth, operational health, and mission alignment. We recognize that exceptional leadership can come from a range of professional paths. As such, we welcome applications from both seasoned Executive Directors and emerging leaders who bring strong organizational, financial, and strategic skills. A structured onboarding and mentorship plan may be developed to support candidates who demonstrate strong potential and alignment with our mission but are newer to executive leadership roles.

Core Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategic Vision
• Execute Board-approved strategies, budgets, and initiatives.
• Promote a collaborative, transparent culture aligned with SBA’s mission.
• Attend Board of Directors meetings and participate as a non-voting, ex-officio member of the Board and committees.

Financial Management
• Develop and manage the annual operating budget and long-term fiscal planning.
• Ensure integrity of financial operations including reporting, audits, and controls.
• Ensure preparation of timely financial documents: balance sheets, profit/loss reports, and cash flow projections.
• Maintain financial stability and stewardship of all organizational assets.

Fundraising & Donor Engagement
• Lead all fundraising efforts including individual donors, major gifts, grants, sponsorships, and events.
• Maintain and grow donor and patron base, including oversight of campaigns, operational funding, and endowment growth.
• Oversee grant applications and stewardship.

Marketing & Public Relations
• Supervise branding, marketing, and public outreach to grow audience engagement.
• Develop strategies to engage new and underserved audience demographics.

Operations & Administration
• Oversee administrative, development, marketing, production, and school staff.
• Execute contracts for choreographers, theaters, consultants, AGMA, among others.
• Provide the Board with ongoing communications, including regular reports and updates.

Human Resources
• Oversee recruitment, hiring, training, and retention for non-artistic roles.

School of the Sacramento Ballet
• Collaborate with School Director to grow enrollment, programming, and student engagement.
• Supervise school administration staff and budgeting.

Community Engagement & Outreach
• Cultivate strategic partnerships and lead community outreach initiatives, with a strong focus on K–12 schools, universities, and underserved communities.
• Solicit funding and partnerships for outreach programs.

Technology & Reporting
• Maintain working knowledge of all operational software platforms.
• Analyze and improve systems to increase eƯiciency in reporting, marketing, fundraising, and ticketing.

Qualifications:
Required:
• Proven leadership in arts management or nonprofit executive roles.
• Demonstrated success in fundraising, strategic planning, and financial oversight.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Deep appreciation for the performing arts.

Preferred:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Arts Administration, Business, or a related field.
• Knowledge of or background in ballet or dance is a strong plus.

Compensation & Benefits:
• Salary range: $90,000 – $150,000 annually commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Annual merit salary increase.
• Health insurance.
• Competitive paid vacation.

To Apply:
Submit a cover letter, resume, and three references to Boardmember@sacballet.org. To be considered, please submit your application no later than August 15, 2025.

The Sacramento Ballet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment for all employees and artists.
2420 N Street #100, Sacramento, CA 95816

CHILDREN’S DIVISION INSTRUCTOR – School of Sacramento Ballet

The School of Sacramento Ballet is seeking passionate and dedicated instructors to teach in our growing Children’s Division for 3 – 7 yrs. old in Sacramento and Davis, for our Fall Session.  This will be for a variety of classes in Music and Movement. Creative Movement, Preparatory, and Ballet Fundamentals.

Please send cover letter and resume to Jorge Laico, School Director:  jlaico@sacballet.org

Salary is $35-$40 per hour

 

Sacramento Ballet is committed to racial equity and fair representation of multiple diverse populations in employment, outreach, scholarships, and all programs. We provide equity and inclusion including equitable pay, fair AGMA Union treatment; access, opportunity, ideas, perspectives, values, and advancement for all. We strive to identify and eliminate barriers as well as innate, learned, and conveyed biases that prevent full participation of our communities.

At Sacramento Ballet we know that all diversity strengthens us all. Our diversity commitment to our community aligns with that of California Arts Council, Sacramento Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy (ACCE) and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s Race and Cultural Equity Statements. We are ever mindful, considered, and inclusive in our outreach to attain fair representation including but not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ability, geography, citizenship status, religion, language, physical appearance, and those affiliating with multiple identities.

Sacramento Ballet has always been a way for communities of the Sacramento region to come together and engage with the arts and each other. Our art allows us to provide and share solace amid uncertainty, to share mutual fears and concerns, to give voice to the voiceless, and to advocate and be allies for diversity, equity, and inclusion that strengthens us all.