Theater Alliance Marketing and Advancement Manager Washington, DC · Part time Company website

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Mission: Theater Alliance creates bold, socially conscious work that is rooted in justice, powered by local artists, and built to ensure our community is central to everything we do.

Vision: Theater Alliance serves our community through innovative, diverse work – live performance, civic engagement, and creative expression. We make theater that inspires action, brings people together, and empowers humanity. We make thought-provoking theater that leaves you with more questions than you came with. An alliance by design, we anchor a multidisciplinary space and a new model for the arts: creating infrastructure, sharing resources, and growing a thriving ecosystem. With justice at the core of our operations, we amplify underrepresented voices, welcome all, and invest in the people who make the work possible. We believe the arts are a central tenet of a flourishing society.

Values: Solidarity, Excellence, Justice, Authenticity.

Position Summary

The Marketing & Advancement Manager supports the day-to-day execution of Theater Alliance's marketing, communications, and development work. This is a hands-on execution role for someone who is organized, creative, and energized by the details that make an organization's public presence feel consistent and alive.

This role works across marketing execution and development support – maintaining social media, coordinating email campaigns, supporting patron communications, assisting with donor tracking, and helping keep the advancement systems running smoothly. The Marketing & Advancement Manager is not setting strategy; they are making sure the strategy lands. They are a reliable, detail-oriented team member who takes pride in work that is timely, accurate, and on-brand.

Theater Alliance is a service organization. The Marketing & Advancement Manager understands that every post, every email, every donor acknowledgment exists to serve artists and community – and brings that ethic to their work.

Responsibilities:

Marketing Execution

• Schedule and publish social media content across all Theater Alliance platforms, following the content calendar 
• Draft and send email campaigns and newsletters using the organization's email platform, per approved templates and direction
• Update website content: event listings, cast pages, production information, and organizational updates
• Support graphic design needs using approved templates; coordinate with outside designers as needed
• Monitor social media channels and engage with community responses, comments, and messages
• Support press coordination: distribute press releases, maintain press contact lists, and track coverage
• Capture and organize production and event photography and video for use across channels

Development Support

• Support donor acknowledgment: prepare and send thank you letters, tax receipts, and gift confirmations in EvolvArts
• Assist with donor database maintenance: data entry, record updates, and list management in EvolvArts
• Support development events: logistics assistance, RSVP tracking, materials preparation, and day-of support
• Assist with grant support: compiling program data, gathering documentation, and supporting narrative preparation as directed
• Track and report on basic marketing and development metrics: email open rates, social reach, donor acknowledgment turnaround

Cross-Functional & Organizational Responsibilities

• Show up as a welcoming and professional presence for everyone who interacts with Theater Alliance; theater is a service industry and every member of the team is a representative of the organization
• Participate actively in staff meetings, organizational planning, company events, opening nights, and all-hands gatherings
• Contribute to organizational culture, process improvement, and institutional knowledge-building
• Align your work with the Root & Rise Strategic Action Plan: know the goals, understand how your work serves them, and actively lead your team toward them
• 10% of this role is floating and cross-functional, available for organizational needs as assigned by Leadership
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

We value demonstrated ability and relevant experience over credentials.

• Experience in marketing, communications, or development support — professional, volunteer, or internship experience all count
• Strong written communication skills: ability to write clearly, on-brand, and for multiple audiences
• Familiarity with social media platforms and basic content scheduling tools
• Experience with email marketing platforms (Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or comparable)
• Organized, detail-oriented, and reliable — you meet deadlines and flag problems before they become emergencies
• Commitment to Theater Alliance's justice-driven, community-rooted mission and values
• A genuine team orientation and spirit of partnership — with internal colleagues and external stakeholders alike
• Commitment to the idea that theater is a service industry, and that the work we do exists to serve our community, our artists, and the world around us
• Experience with EvolvArts, Salesforce, or a comparable CRM
• Basic graphic design skills — Canva, Adobe Suite, or comparable
• Experience in or genuine interest in the performing arts or nonprofit sector
• Familiarity with press and media relations

What Success Looks Like

• Social media is posting consistently, on brand, and on schedule, no errors, and no missed engagement or communication
• Email campaigns go out on time and look right
• Donor acknowledgments are sent promptly and accurately
• The Theater Alliance team  can rely on this role to execute without having to supervise every detail
• Theater Alliance's public presence feels consistent, warm, and alive, and this role is part of why

Classification: We consider this role to be 50% time, noting that the position will fluctuate between periods of intense in-person participation and periods of largely remote engagement, flowing with the cadence of a producing arts organization.

Hours: ~20 hrs per week

Compensation: $23-$25/hour

Compensation framework and philosophy available to all applicants including our transparency policies, our  2:1 pay ratio cap, our living wage goal commitment, and our holistic compensation  package.

Location:  Washington, DC — hybrid role, with in-person, on-site requirements

Unlimited PTO: Theater Alliance offers unlimited paid time off, available from the first day of employment, subject to approval and in coordination with organizational needs and production schedules.

Theater Alliance is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, this policy intends to effectuate these principles and mandates. Theater Alliance prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Theater Alliance conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.