Responsibilities

• manage accounts; provide strategic communications counsel; and to craft and execute public relations plans that help drive ticket sales, visitation, fundraising, and thought leadership for cultural organizations that include museums, Off-Broadway and regional theaters, multidisciplinary presenters, and arts education providers.
• Client services in the firm’s Arts & Culture practice are primarily strategic communications planning and execution for media relations and social media but can extend to donor communications, advocacy communications, collateral development, and events.
• Develop and execute multi-channel communications programs for a variety of arts and culture organizations, based on clients’ institutional goals and target audiences.
• The ideal candidate will become part of each client’s team, always working to guarantee the highest level of service with proactive ideation, responsiveness, and care.

Requirements

• Five to ten years of relevant experience in arts communications role, ideally working for an agency or cultural nonprofit.
• Demonstrated drive to deliver the highest quality work with clients’ best interests and goals in mind.
• Motivated and organized self-starter, capable of managing multiple projects and ensuring successful execution.
• Skilled manager able to supervise a more junior direct report, support peers, and manage up to the practice area’s leadership.
• Highly collaborative and professionally generous; we work to support one another.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Experience developing and pitching culture stories that result in press coverage, as well as with drafting and securing publication for op-eds, letters, or first person essays.
• Experience developing engaging and creative social media content or collaborating with marketing and digital teams.
• Creative thinker who brings ideas, always on the lookout for innovative or clever ways to promote a client, program, or story.
• Strong multi-tasker able to work under tight deadlines.

Preferred

• An understanding of New York City government and how it functions is preferred.

Benefits

• 100% coverage of Health insurance, 50% coverage of Dental insurance and affordable Vision insurance monthly premiums
• Employer funded Short Term Disability Insurance
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Mental health assistance with company-sponsored membership to Talkspace
• Access to Healthcare advocacy and support with Health Advocate
• Membership to One Medical to use for on-demand Primary, Mental and Virtual Care and access to One Medical offices nationwide; virtual Urgent Care with TeleDoc Health
• Kindbody – a gynecology, fertility, and family-building benefit
• Peloton – access to the Peloton App and gives employees access to thousands of classes with no equipment needed. Stream classes in cardio, running, strength, yoga, meditation, and more on a phone, tablet, or TV
• Eligible to participate in the firm’s 401K Plan after 6 months of vesting period
• 34 days total of PTO, inclusive of general PTO, wellness days, personal days, 7 paid bank holidays, 3 floating holidays and the office is closed the last week of the year.