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Posted: 17-Jun-26
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full Time
Salary: $70,000–$85,000
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Position Summary
The New York Youth Symphony seeks a highly organized, creative, and detail-oriented Communications and Marketing Manager to support the organization’s marketing, communications, audience engagement, and fundraising communications. This is an implementation-focused role, not a senior strategy position. The Manager will help execute clear, accurate, and visually consistent communications across NYYS concerts, auditions, programs, fundraising efforts, and special events. Working closely with program, development, administrative, and digital media staff, this position will help ensure that NYYS materials are timely, polished, mission-aligned, and delivered on schedule.
Marketing, Communications, and Brand Support
• Coordinate print and digital marketing materials for NYYS programs, concerts, auditions, special events, and institutional communications.
• Help maintain consistency in NYYS’s visual identity, tone, and messaging across publicfacing materials.
• Draft, edit, proofread, and organize communications content as needed.
• Manage basic design timelines, review processes, approvals, printing, and distribution in coordination with staff and vendors. Development and Fundraising Communications
• Support the development team with materials for annual fund campaigns, donor recognition, gala marketing, special appeals, sponsorships, and stewardship.
• Help gather student stories, photos, quotes, and program highlights that demonstrate the impact of donor support.
• Assist with donor-facing collateral, campaign materials, and event communications.
Email Marketing and Audience Engagement
• Build, schedule, and send email campaigns for concerts, auditions, programs, events, fundraising, and institutional news.
• Assist with list segmentation, scheduling, proofreading, testing, and basic performance tracking.
• Coordinate with staff to ensure email content is accurate, timely, and relevant.
Concert, Event, and Audition Promotion
• Coordinate promotional materials and event information for NYYS concerts, performances, workshops, auditions, and public events.
• Work with staff, venues, and the Digital Media Coordinator to ensure event details, ticket links, program information, images, and promotional assets are accurate and delivered on time.
• In coordination with the Executive Director, support ticketing setup, event listings, and box office coordination as needed.
• Help maintain centralized event, audition, and ticketing information for staff, students, families, venues, and audiences.
Advertising and Project Coordination
• Coordinate advertising materials for concert programs, seasonal publications, and musician handbooks.
• Track ad commitments, artwork, payment status, deadlines, and placement.
• Support coordination with designers, printers, vendors, and staff to keep communications projects moving on schedule.
Qualifications
• Experience in marketing, communications, arts administration, nonprofit communications, or related fields.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and organizational skills. • Ability to manage multiple deadlines, projects, and shifting priorities.
• Experience with tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Neon, and basic project management platforms preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with staff, artists, students, families, donors, vendors, venues, and external partners.
• Interest in music, arts education, youth development, or nonprofit work preferred.
Salary and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000–$85,000, depending on experience and qualifications. NYYS offers a hybrid workplace environment, with staff generally working in the office three days per week and remotely on other days. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage after 30 days of employment, as well as access to a 403(b)-retirement plan with company vesting after two years. Some evening and weekend work will be required around concerts, board meetings, kickoff weekends, and other major organizational events. NYYS observes typical federal holidays and provides two weeks off during the holiday season. The organization also maintains summer Fridays beginning in June.
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to jkilkenny@nyys.org. The position is available starting July 1st and review of candidates will begin immediately.
