Call For KCACTF Region IV RED Vice-Chair
The KCACTF RED Initiative:
Representation is about is about taking action to eradicate bigotry in all forms so that all identities are safe, seen, and heard. It is about recruiting and maintaining people in leadership who can speak from their different experiences to ensure that decision-making power is given to voices not normally centered in the conversation. It is about who is in the room and provided with an equal stake in decision-making.
Equity is ensuring that everyone has access to resources and what they need to succeed. We must constantly reexamine processes and systems within our organization and provide necessary resources to ensure that equitable practices are present and transparent. This means that we must transparently re-examine our entire system generally and specifically, including our budgets, curriculum, recruitment processes, and schedules so that our organization is equitably accessible.
Diversity is celebrating the inclusion of all at every table and in every room. We must engage in acknowledging and advocating for rigorous cultural specificity and work to remove generalizations about experience in any aspect of theatrical practice. We must develop ways we can ACTIVELY PRACTICE diversity year-round, in the planning and execution of both regional and national festivals.
RED Vice-Chair Job Description
Will assist the Region IV RED Chair in all KCACTF regional and national initiatives. Will collaborate with the KCACTF Region 4 Chair, Co Vice-Chars, and the entire regional executive leadership team for a term of 3 years. After the 3-year term, the vice-chair will take on the role of RED chair for 3 years.
The Region 4 RED Vice-Chair will oversee the efforts of Region 4 in representation, equity, diversity, and justice by:
1. Developing anti-bias training tools for Region IV leadership, faculty, staff and students, to facilitate better cross-cultural communication;
2. Recruiting, supporting, retaining of diverse populations in the organization, including faculty, staff & students;
3. Curating programming that demonstrates our commitment to representation, equity and diversity in all aspects of festival planning.
4. informing all regional leadership regarding RED policies and procedures.
The Regional RED Vice-Chair will:
1. Provide strategic leadership and advocate for policies and practices in the areas of representation, inclusion, equity and justice.
2. Collaborate with other interested constituents to develop opportunities to engage in the study of race, gender, ethnicity, nation and nationhood, class, and religion and their intersections as reflected in theatrical practice.
3. Develop a procedure to ensure fair, equitable and transparent access to all leadership positions regionally.
4. Improve effectiveness and success in recruiting and retaining diverse faculty and students to KCACTF.
5. Possibly visit other regions as part of an exchange serving as a resource for other KCACTF regions.
6. Assessing Regional Systems and their evolving practices regarding RED initiatives.
7. Facilitating workshops at the regional festival.
8. Attend, if the Chair is unavailable, National leadership meetings
Application packet should include:
a letter of introduction that talks about why they would like this role and how they see themselves doing it.
current CV
letter for support from their chair or dean
one letter of recommendation
The selection process is as follows:
Applications due by May 31, 2024
The KCACTF Region 4 executive committee will review the applicants and vote on the RED vice-chair applications during the summer.
The applicant will be presented to the National Executive committee for vetting and final approval no later than the August 2022.
This position will start as soon as the vetting process is complete.
Completed Application Packets should be sent electronically to Belinda Boyd and Lee Neibert at kcactf4chair@gmail.com by May 31, 2024.
