Communications Assistant

Dance/NYC’s mission is to promote the knowledge, appreciation, practice, and performance of dance in the metropolitan New York City area. It embeds values of justice, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of the organization. It works in alliance with Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.  Dance/NYC seeks to add a key part-time associate to provide support for its social media efforts, its website (www.dance.nyc), and customer relations.

Communication Assistant Duties, and Responsibilities:

• Create timely and high-quality content for Dance/NYC social media accounts (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn) that reflects the voice and mission of Dance/NYC and that amplifies and supports overall communications.
• Ideate with the team to create engaging social media campaigns that support Dance/NYC goals and initiatives.
• Schedule posts in advance as needed, monitor engagement, and interact with followers where appropriate.
• Provide live social media coverage of Dance/NYC and affiliate events by capturing content including photo and video and posting on site.
• Provide administration and support for other Dance/NYC marketing and communications initiatives including

                -The external website Dance.NYC (content updates as directed).

                -E-communications (weekly e-newsletter, advocacy alerts, special bulletins), including drafting communications and managing the schedule of e-blasts as needed.

• Provide customer support to Dance/NYC's growing online user-base, in particular managing info@dance.nyc and media@dance.nyc accounts and responding to inquiries on a daily basis.
• Provide support in the ongoing development of Dance.NYC and related database technologies primarily with regard to importing lists/qualifying contacts in NEON CRM.
• Assist in the production of both print and electronic institutional marketing material and ad placements, including material on Dance.NYC.
• Complete quarterly analyses and reports of social media and e-communications.
• Track pro-bono advertising.
• Other duties to support the communications area as assigned.

Qualifications: Ideal candidates will have relevant prior marketing and communications experience and be comfortable using Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, CRM Software (NEON), Google Applications, social media platforms (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Hootsuite), and HTML.  They will be methodical and detail oriented, with excellent planning and time management skills, and be able to advance multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.  They will be current on and comfortably engaging with emerging technologies, and demonstrate a commitment to technology solutions in the social enterprise space.  They will be well versed in the arts and cultural landscape.  Bilingual candidates preferred.

Location: The Dance/NYC offices are located on the Garden Floor (ground floor) of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, in the Gramercy Area of Manhattan.  Access to the Garden Floor entrance includes a two-step descent. A lift to the entrance will be available in the coming months. An accessible bathroom is available onsite, and elevators are not available in the building.