Job Call: Production Coordinator

Permanent Part-Time Position

Applications Due: Oct 16th Midnight

Remuneration: $24/hour, 18 hours per week ($22,464 annually)

Anticipated Start Date: Nov 5th, 2025

 

The Centre for Art Tapes is seeking a Production Coordinator to join our team in a permanent part-time capacity. This position is essential to maintaining CFAT's facilities and equipment, managing our membership database, and providing technical consultation for programming and projects.

The Production Coordinator will work 18 hours per week on a regular schedule to be determined with the Executive Director, during CFAT's operating hours and on-site. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with our community of media artists while ensuring our production facilities remain accessible and well-maintained.

The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the maintenance of CFAT's extensive collection of professional media arts equipment, managing membership services, and collaborating with our Programming Coordinator on technical needs for upcoming projects and events.

Benefits include:

  • Five weeks (90 hours) paid vacation per year

  • Two weeks (36 hours) paid 'Creative Leave' to support your artistic practice

  • Optional health plan (50/50 employer/employee cost-sharing)

  • Access to CFAT's facilities and equipment during off-hours

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Equipment Management: Ensuring all equipment is kept in good working order and damaged equipment is repaired in a timely fashion; general equipment upkeep including software updates

  • Facility Maintenance: Keeping in-house facilities organized, clean, and inviting

  • Booking System Management: Using online booking system for member equipment rentals and maintaining accurate records

  • Committee Leadership: Chairing the Centre's Volunteer Equipment and Access Committee to advise on needed purchases or facility improvements

  • Policy Enforcement: Ensuring proper equipment and space use according to CFAT policies

  • Financial Management: Managing invoices and receiving payments for rentals; reporting production-related expenses to the Executive Director

  • Membership Services: Maintaining membership records and relationships; advising members on membership structure; collecting feedback on how facilities could better serve the community

  • Technical Consultation: Working collaboratively with the Programming Coordinator to plan equipment needs for programming; researching technical needs for grant applications

 

Interested applicants should submit the following:

  • A CV or Resume detailing relevant work experience

  • A cover letter outlining your interest in this position and relevant experience with equipment maintenance, database management, or membership services

  • References (professional or volunteer experience)

Email applications to executivedirector@cfat.ca. Applications and any questions can be directed to Cat Bluemke, Executive Director.

 

Ideal Candidate:

  • Experience with audio/video equipment maintenance and troubleshooting

  • Strong organizational and database management skills

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for working with diverse membership

  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with team members

  • Interest in media arts and supporting artistic practice

  • Flexibility around duties within changing technologies and systems

  • Experience with booking systems and basic financial record-keeping an asset

 

About CFAT:

CFAT is an artist-driven media art presentation and production centre; our aim is to support the enjoyment, creation and preservation of experimental contemporary media art practices. Our members and collaborating/exhibiting artists are working in media such as video art, experimental sound, animation, filmmaking, electronic and digital art, and media/interactive installation. We take a broad interpretation of the term "media art" aligning ourselves with its genesis from visual art as opposed to film. CFAT values presentation and research in tandem and places an emphasis on programming that furthers the professional development of its exhibiting artists.

For more information please visit http://cfat.ca

 

Notes on Access:

CFAT recognizes our participation and complicity with the historic barriers to accessing job opportunities in the arts. Applicants are welcomed to self-identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ2SIA+, disabled, femme or any other community that is important to their identity. We are in an ongoing process of making our space and programs as welcoming and available to all as possible. If you have specific needs that you would like us to address, or any concerns please reach out or mention them in your application.

CFAT's facility is wheelchair accessible and has one non-gendered washroom. Our Core Staff are happy to work with people with disabilities to support them in comfortably and safely using our space. CFAT's facility is a community-used space, and a number of members have 24-hour access. Participation with CFAT's programs and use of our space by anyone is governed by our Code of Conduct, which does not tolerate discrimination or acts of violence in any form.