Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Reports to: Senior Director of Marketing & Communications
Salary Range: $40,000–$45,000
Management: No
Non-Exempt
ABOUT THE BCA:
A leading force in the city’s cultural community, Boston Center for the Arts has supported thousands of individual artists, small organizations, and performing arts companies, who add depth and dimension to the Boston arts ethos. Through residencies and programming, Boston Center for the Arts serves as an epicenter for an expanding cohort of artists working across all disciplines and has catalyzed careers by providing fertile ground for experimentation and artistic risk-taking.
Boston Center for the Arts is committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of Greater Boston. People of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
RACIAL EQUITY COMMITMENT:
Black Lives Matter. It is incumbent upon us to act accordingly and to identify those ways that we, as a leading cultural organization, can stop perpetuating pervasive and systemic white supremacist practices and lead through our actions.
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is committed to doing the hard work of dismantling even the most subtle forms of white supremacy in our organization, in our practices, and in the work we do to help make Boston a place where ALL artists can live and thrive.
POSITION CONCEPT:
BCA seeks a Marketing & Communications Coordinator. Under the direction of the Senior Director of Marketing & Communications and in collaboration with other Marketing & Communications colleagues, the Marketing & Communications Coordinator will help organize and implement marketing, public relations, and communications strategies to advance annual plans that define and strengthen the brand, artistic programs, and artist, community, and donor engagement goals of BCA.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Coordination
- Organize and maintain Marketing & Communications project management systems and other databases such as press and vendor contact lists
- In consultation with others on the Marketing & Communications team, adjust priorities and help coordinate multiple projects with varying timelines and needs simultaneously for the organization.
- Help create agendas and, at times, lead meetings with colleagues.
Marketing and External Affairs
- In close collaboration with other Marketing & Communications and Artistic Programming team members, assist in creating, editing, and sharing engaging content across multiple communications channels to advance our artistic residencies, and arts programming.
- Work closely with the venue rentals team and other Marketing & Communications colleagues to help implement and maintain marketing campaigns that maximize sales and revenue streams for the many rental venues of BCA including the Cyclorama.
- Work with the Development department to strategize, support, and execute multi-channel fundraising campaigns, and provide data analytics on past campaigns.
- Work with the Development Coordinator to maintain healthy donor data including contact lists and related performance analytics.
- Strictly maintain a consistent and strong adherence to the BCA brand strategy and guidelines in all communications and visual output.
- Work within the annual marketing and communications budget to produce engaging and effective content.
- In collaboration with others, help collect, maintain, and supplement artistic and rental audience data, using that data for future, ongoing outreach to programming and rental audiences.
Other
- Support all BCA programs and special events as requested.
- Attendance at occasional evening and weekend performances and events will be required.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The successful candidate will possess most, if not all, of the following skills, experience, and attributes:
Knowledge & Experience
- 1–2 years of experience in marketing and communications, preferably in the non-profit or arts and culture field.
- An understanding of marketing and research.
- Excellent writing skills, including the ability to write compellingly about the visual and performing arts, and community engagement.
- Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, MailChimp or other email platforms.
- Experience with creating and disseminating social media campaigns to multiple audiences.
- Experience with photo, graphics, and video editing is a plus.
- Experience with website content management systems including Wordpress is also a plus.
- Ability to think creatively and develop innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to communications strategies.
- The ability to adjust and prioritize work projects to meet the different multiple needs of the organization.
Personal Qualities
- Respects and values diverse perspectives.
- A positive, nimble, and creative thinker with a proven ability to take initiative and tackle complex challenges.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Flexible, collaborative, and team-oriented.
- Engenders trust with other staff and remains open to feedback.
- Operates with a high degree of integrity and respect.
- Possesses a passion for the arts.
- Possesses excellent organizational skills.
JOB STRUCTURE AND BENEFITS:
This is a non-exempt, hourly, full-time position. Compensation will annualize to $40,000 – $45,000, based on experience. Occasional weekend and evening hours will be required. Boston Center for the Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package including 4 weeks of paid time off, and 2 weeks of additional paid administrative closure, 80% BCA-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance, remote work options, flexible spending plans, short-term disability, and a 403(b) retirement savings plan plus complimentary tickets to BCA and BCA partner events and performances.
The successful candidate will be expected to report to the office although some flexible remote work can be negotiated.
Please submit a resume and a cover letter with your application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we hope to fill this position by late January 2025.
Boston Center for the Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The BCA prohibits discrimination based upon an individual's age, ancestry, citizenship, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
What We Do
Mission
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works, develops new audiences, and connects the arts to community.
The Complex
The BCA’s 190,000 square foot campus consists of:
• Four theatres. These include the BCA Plaza Theatre with 142 seats; the BCA Plaza Black Box with up to 90 seats, as well as the new, state-of-the-art Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, which houses the Roberts Studio Theatre with up to 209 seats and the Wimberly Theatre with up to 370 seats.
• Rehearsal and education space. Rehearsal Hall A and Deane Rehearsal Hall in the Calderwood Pavilion are the main rehearsal spaces for larger companies and are also used for performances, events, and meetings.
• The Mills Gallery. The premier, independent non-profit gallery in Boston, showing the work of local and national, established and emerging artists
• The Tremont Estates Building. The Artists Studio Building is the working home for over 50 artists.
• The Cyclorama. Opened in 1865, the Cyclorama is on the National Register of Historic Places. Featuring a copper skylight dome atop a round brick-lined 23,000 square foot space, the Cyclorama can host up to 1,200 visitors.
• The Boston Ballet Building. This Graham Gund-designed building has been home to the Boston Ballet for 16 years.
• The Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB). Now in its 99th year, CMCB has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children and adults each year, many of them underserved, through lessons and classes on site, in the Boston Public Schools, through social service agencies and at community centers.
• Beehive Jazz Café, is nestled in the BCA complex in space that was once occupied by a black-box theatre at street level and a basement. Now, a dining room on the upper level overlooks the lower level café and stage where live jazz is featured nightly.
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