Have you secretly been dreaming of bringing people together to learn how to build their own beautiful wooden canoe? We may just have found your dream job in Vermont: Executive Director at HatchSpace, a “community workshop where we spark and nurture creative expression and lifelong learning.”
HatchSpace holds classes that run the gamut from coaching you through making a niiiiice hand broom to partnering with places like Vermont Works for Women to equip girls with skills in the trades. Plus, the job pays nicely, for a nonprofit gig in a small town. Expect to rake in $95,000 to $110,000 a year.
So put those strategic planning skills and passion for artistic use of powertools together and get up to Brattleboro, all right?
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Job Description
Here’s more from this Dream Job’s job description:
HatchSpace is a shared space for woodworking. We are an 8,000 SF community workshop where we spark and nurture creative expression and lifelong learning within a supportive community environment. We foster the conditions for exploration, independent work, and group collaboration necessary for anyone to build beautiful things with wood. Our impacts include personal development, livelihood support, and community well-being.
Our mission as a not-for-profit community workshop is to promote the value and practice of craft by providing the instruction, tools and space to support a community of woodworkers. We celebrate and advance the learning, practice and cultural varieties of woodworking and strive to provide anyone with access to the tools and training necessary to develop creative confidence and build the things they love. This includes preparing them for careers in the trades and crafts.
Over the next five years HatchSpace will undertake an organization transformation process to grow from a community workshop into a regional economic development engine. We will achieve this by creating a forest economy value chain that includes a workforce development initiative, a furniture design and fabrication incubator, and the growth of regional and national furniture sales.
The executive director provides strategic leadership and enterprise-wide management in accordance with the mission and strategic goals established by HatchSpace’s board of directors. The executive director works closely with the founders, board, staff, volunteers, members, and donors to ensure HatchSpace’s growth and long-term success.