FESTIVAL DIRECTOR (PART-TIME, TEMPORARY)
Muddy Boot Organic Festival, Portland, Oregon
Closes: Friday, April 1, 2011

Salary: $13-$16 per hour, part-time

The Muddy Boot Festival is an annual celebration of sustainability, spirituality and community in Southeast Portland, September 9-11, 2011. Sponsored by St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, we are a grassroots event now in our sixth year.

The Muddy Boot Festival features a keynote event, music, food, beer and wine, children’s activities, workshops, panel discussions and vendor booths and typically draws several thousand visitors each year. Our aim is to educate and inspire commitment to sustainable and healthy living and stewardship of our planet.

The Muddy Boot Festival is seeking a Director for our 2011 festival. The Director will be responsible for planning and running the 2011 festival. The position entails soliciting and working with sponsors, organizing the keynote event, lining up vendors, setting up educational workshops, supervising music selection and booking, supervising a vendor/workshop coordinator, planning and managing the budget to ensure that the festival meets its revenue and expense projections, managing a volunteer planning committee, working with St. Philip Neri Parish staff members, and more.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone with grassroots event management experience and a love for all things sustainable. Please see http://muddyboot.org/docs/MuddyBoot2011DirectorJobDescription.pdf for more information about the position requirements and responsibilities and application instructions