Salary: $84,921.00 - $102,295.00 Annually
Location : Walnut Creek, CA
Job Type: Regular
Job Number: 25-26
Department: Arts & Recreation
Division: Lesher Center for the Arts
Opening Date: 06/17/2025
Closing Date: 7/6/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
Bargaining Unit: 600

Position Description
The City of Walnut Creek is looking to hire an experienced and collaborative Technical Coordinator to work closely with Lesher Center and Center REP staff to facilitate a variety of productions. Our Technical Coordinator will support the technical needs for productions in the Lesher Center Presents Headliners series and the Center REP season, ensuring that timeline, budget, and contractual obligations are met.
Salary
As of July 1, 2025, the salary range for Technical Coordinator (formal job class of Program Coordinator) will be $84,921 to $102,295 annually. Placement in the position and range will depend on qualifications.
Closing Date
The closing date for this recruitment is Sunday, July 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST.
What's great about this opportunity:

Join the team of a premier multi-venue arts center in the heart of Contra Costa County.

Support world-renowned artists in the Headliners series, ranging from dance and theatre to music and comedy.

Collaborate with Center REP, one of the region's oldest and most respected professional theatres, on their season of productions.

Grow a long-term career in the arts with a CalPERS pension, a comprehensive benefits package, and professional development opportunities.

About the City
Spanning 19.5 square miles, the community's sprawling landscapes, warm weather, diverse dining options, and thriving shopping district make Walnut Creek a suburban oasis with an urban flair. With a rare blend of 2,800 acres of open space, a vibrant downtown, a business park, premier healthcare facilities and a performing arts center, Walnut Creek offers something for everyone!
The City of Walnut Creek is committed to values of respect, integrity, excellence, teamwork, and creativity. CARE, the City's robust award-winning employee engagement initiative, focuses on three key areas: providing career development opportunities; promoting connections among employees; and supporting employee health and wellness.
About the Division
The Lesher Center for the Arts and Center Repertory Company are programs of the City of Walnut Creek's Arts + Recreation Department.
The mission of the Lesher Center is to drive excellence, innovation, and diversity in the arts through performances, exhibitions and educational programming that establish the Lesher Center as the artistic destination for everyone in Walnut Creek and the region.
The Lesher Center, which includes three theater spaces, presents events from its resident programs and supports approximately ninety event producers who rent the space each year. Together these programs present more than 800 productions and events a year, including a curated selection of visual art exhibitions at the Bedford Gallery, which collectively attract more than 350,000 patrons.
Center REP is the resident professional theatre company of the Lesher Center with a season of five to six productions a year - a variety of musicals, dramas and comedies, both classic and contemporary, that continually strive to reach new levels of artistic excellence and professional standards. The company operates on an Actors' Equity Association LOA/LORT D Contract and hires both union and non-union actors, designers, and directors.
Ideal Candidate Statement
The ideal candidate for Technical Coordinator has a breadth of experience in performance genres including Music, Theatre, and Dance, and professional experience within a producing, repertory or presenting performance environment. They will have a demonstrable understanding of the entire production process from both a creative and technical standpoint, with the ability to navigate a clear path to success for productions of any size and complexity.
Representative Duties
Representative Duties
Reporting to the Lesher Center General Manager, the Technical Coordinator's primary areas of focus include (and are not limited to) the following duties:

Review and negotiate technical rider obligations, provide budget estimates, establish and publish finalized schedules, and execute all technical aspects of Lesher Center Presents events;

Support all technical aspects of Center REP's season, including design elements, lighting, props, audio and audio-visual, in collaboration with the Production Manager, directors and designers to realize productions within available budget, timeline and resources;

Serve as liaison between Center REP and the scenic fabrication company, overseeing successful, on-time completion of all scenery for the organization;

Update master production schedules in tandem with the rest of the production team, providing details, crewing information, shipping, logistics, and other relative data;

Support in planning of and participation in Load-ins and Strikes, including technical drawings and plans for load-ins (AutoCad, Vectorworks, etc.);

Budget forecasting and expense management, production and technical planning including design elements, lighting, props, audio and audio-visual as related to the production;

Negotiate and secure cost-effective rentals from sound, lighting, staging, backline, video, and other vendors as needed; and

In collaboration with the Lesher Center Production Services Supervisor and Center REP Artistic Director and Production Manager, hire, schedule, and supervise production crew/labor within budget and contract requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
The ideal candidates will have the following:

Considerable knowledge of the performing arts and techniques associated with theatrical production and performance operation including set design and construction, lighting, rigging, sound, and projection;

Knowledge of production budget and purchasing practices;

Knowledge of the methods and practices utilized in planning, organizing, and coordinating multiple simultaneous projects;

Skill in communicating effectively in English both orally and in writing, making professional presentations, and writing and developing program materials and correspondence;

Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with diverse groups of people, including internal and external customers;

Ability to effectively utilize computer applications and technology related to the work; and

Creative problem-solving skills.

Qualifications Guidelines
Qualifications Guidelines
A Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in performing arts and two (2) years of experience working within a producing, repertory, or presenting performance environment; or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities. Any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed in the class specification is qualifying.
Special Requirements:

Possession of, or ability to obtain prior to employment, a valid Class C California Driver's License and a good driving record.

Work hours may vary in accordance with the program being offered and therefore, this employee maybe required to respond to calls for emergency assistance during off-duty hours.

Supplemental Information
The tentative deadline to apply for this position is Sunday, July 6, 2025, by 11:59 PM PST.
To be considered for this opportunity, please visit and apply online at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/walnutcreek/.
Applicants possessing the MOST DESIRABLE qualifications will be invited to continue in the selection process, which will include an oral board interview tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Department interviews are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, August 5, 2025. A practical examination may also be included in this recruitment process.
All applicants will be notified by email as to whether or not they are invited to participate further in the selection process.
Applicants considered for appointment to this position will be subject to California Department of Justice and FBI fingerprinting, a thorough background check, and a credit check.
If you have a disability as defined by state and federal law that could impact your participation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources at (925) 943-5815 or jobs@walnutcreekca.gov to request a reasonable accommodation. Please provide the Human Resources Department with advance notice and every attempt will be made to consider your request.
As required by law, all public employees are designated as Disaster Service Workers. As such, all City of Walnut Creek employees may be called upon to assisting the event of fire, flood, earthquake, or other natural or man-made disasters.
This position is classified as Program Coordinator, with Technical Coordinator as the working title. Please see the class specification here for a complete description of this classification's representative duties; knowledge, skills and abilities; qualifications; working conditions; physical requirements; and for other details about this position. Benefits offered to this position in the General Employees Unit may be found here.
The City of Walnut Creek provides a generous benefit package to employees in the General Employees Unit. A summary of key benefits for full-time and part-time employees is listed below. More information can be found on the benefit page of the City's website and in the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Walnut Creek and the General Employees Unit.

Full-Time Employees:
Health Benefits - Choice of Kaiser or Blue Shield HMO or HDHP health insurance plans with generous City contribution.

Dental and Vision Plans - Family coverage fully paid by the City.

Life Insurance and Long Term Disability - Individual coverage fully paid by the City.

Retirement Program - CalPERS 2% at 60 retirement plan OR for new employees hired after 1/1/2013 the benefit formula applicable under AB340 California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA). Employee contribution: 7%*.

* or contributions required under AB340 California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA)

401(a) Money Purchase Plan with annual City contribution of $1,400. Voluntary 457 Deferred Compensation plan. The City participates in the Medicare Program but does not participate in Social Security or the State Disability program.

Paid Leave and Holidays - General Leave accrues at the rate of 20 days the first year and progresses to 30 days at twenty-five years of service. There are twelve paid holidays per year and one floating DEIB holiday per year.

Dependent Care and Medical Spending Accounts - Available to eligible employees on a voluntary basis.

Additional Benefits - Tuition Reimbursement Program, Employee Assistance Plan, Wellness Program, Commute Alternative Program and others.

Part-Time Employees:
Health Benefits - Choice of Kaiser HMO or Blue Shield HMO health insurance plans with a City contribution.

Retirement Program - CalPERS 2% at 60 retirement plan OR for new employees hired after 1/1/2013 the benefit formula applicable under AB340 California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA). Employee contribution: 7%*.

* or contributions required under AB340 California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA)

401(a) Money Purchase Plan with prorated City contribution. Voluntary 457 Deferred Compensation plan is available. The City participates in the Medicare Program but does not participate in Social Security or the State Disability program.

Paid Leave and Holidays - Prorated for part-time employees.

Dependent Care and Medical Spending Accounts - Available to eligible employees on a voluntary basis.

Additional Benefits - Employee Assistance Plan, Wellness Program, Commute Alternative Program and others.
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Qualification guidelines for this position include two (2) years of experience working within a producing, repertory, or presenting performance environment; or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed in the class specification.? Please indicate the years of full-time, relevant experience you possess. Please ensure that this professional experience is also demonstrated in the Work Experience section of your application.

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