Jobs at Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.

Build and alter costumes for Houston Grand Opera productions, with emphasis on stitching. Responsibilities include sewing new garments and alterations, preparing fabrics, cutting, fitting preparation, steaming, costume organization, and occasional crafts or millinery work. The role requires professional garment construction experience, strong machine and hand-sewing skills, attention to detail, deadline management, and the ability to work in a fast-paced production environment with fluctuating schedules.

The Director of Legacy Giving leads Houston Grand Opera’s planned, deferred, estate, and endowment giving program. Responsibilities include developing fundraising strategies, cultivating and soliciting donors, stewarding legacy portfolios, growing the Laureate Society, advising on gift-planning vehicles, coordinating gift arrangements, ensuring policy compliance, collaborating with philanthropy staff, managing donor records in Tessitura, and supporting donor events. The role requires strong relationship-building, fundraising expertise, data-driven decision-making, confidentiality, organization, and flexibility for evening and weekend activities.

Creates costume patterns and supports costume construction, fittings, alterations, and preparation for opera productions. Measures performers, evaluates rental costumes, calculates materials, operates industrial sewing equipment, and assists with department projects. The role requires coordinating multiple builds, meeting deadlines, maintaining accuracy under pressure, and collaborating professionally with supervisors, designers, vendors, and artists. Standing, lifting, reaching, and other physical activities are required, with schedules and overtime varying according to production needs.

Produces high-volume video and audio content from concept through final delivery for social media, advertising, email, websites, brand initiatives, and organizational needs. Responsibilities include storytelling, scripting, storyboarding, directing, videography, editing, color correction, sound mixing, graphics, production logistics, talent coordination, vendor management, equipment maintenance, archival organization, and cross-department collaboration. The role requires flexible scheduling, including nights and weekends, and supports campaigns, livestreams, media relations, and opera productions.

Coordinate and execute grassroots marketing and audience engagement events, manage promotional partnerships and collateral, support cross-department outreach, maintain community-focused web content and email communications, track engagement and report on audience development.

Oversee accounting operations, month- and year-end close, financial and management reporting, audit coordination, tax and grant compliance, internal controls, and endowment accounting; communicate financial results to non-financial stakeholders and maintain financial policies and procedures.

Manage end-to-end email marketing campaigns, write and edit branded copy, build and optimize automated journeys, collaborate with data and design teams, maintain website content related to ticketing, monitor email metrics, support advertising/promotions and cross-promotional partnerships to grow audience and ticket sales.

Support technical operations for mainstage productions and special events: scheduling and crewing, sourcing and purchasing materials, maintaining production paperwork and inventory, attending rehearsals and show duty, overseeing technical setups, enforcing safety, and managing maintenance and preventative upkeep of tools and equipment.

Manage and audit employee records in the HRIS, support full payroll processing (weekly and semi-monthly), reconcile benefits and carrier invoices, administer PTO and leave tracking, process garnishments and manual checks, assist with tax and year-end activities, and generate HR/payroll reports while ensuring data accuracy and confidentiality.