Project Manager, Communications and Marketing (Design and Photography)

Job Description

Overview :

This position offers an exciting opportunity to join Juilliard's collaborative Communications & Marketing team. The Project Manager will oversee operational and production workflows that support Juilliard's Communications and Marketing teams as they deliver high-quality creative projects on ambitious timelines. This role supports a wide range of marketing and fundraising goals, including print and digital campaigns for recruitment, live and on-demand performances, fundraising campaigns, special events, photography, and earned revenue initiatives.

Essential duties include collaborating with internal departments to define project needs, budgets, timelines, and approvals, as well as continually refining production processes with internal team members and external vendors. The successful candidate will be a diplomatic, astute, and client-centric professional who brings creativity and resourcefulness to achieving marketing, content, design, and photography objectives. They will excel at identifying efficient solutions within existing resources, while skillfully driving projects forward and fostering strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.

The Communications & Marketing department includes marketing, communications, content, digital, design, social media, digital media, retail, and ticketing professionals dedicated to furthering Juilliard's mission of providing the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted performing artists from around the world.

This position is located on site (not hybrid or remote), and reports directly to the Design Director.

The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $80,000, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Working at Juilliard

Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school's mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.

Excellence and professionalism are important guides in how we go about our work, but we also connect to the mission as individuals in the workplace. We thrive because of our variety of backgrounds and our ability to be open and honest, and we also thrive because we enjoy each other's company. We believe that each employee has the responsibility to help shape the Juilliard organizational culture, and we provide opportunities to participate in team-building throughout the year. Our organizational values focus on community and culture.

We encourage you to read more about how we achieve our mission on our website, juilliard.edu.

Role Responsibilities :

General Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Asana workflows for the entire Communications & Marketing team.
• Manage design processes from conception to production and delivery, ensuring projects meet expectations for timeline and budget; provide support to the content, marketing, and design teams so that their time may be fully devoted to creatively executing projects.
• Optimize the photography approval process for the Communications & Marketing team, and school-wide divisions and departments
• Create and enforce clear project approval processes, including approval schedules for the marketing, content, and design teams as well as external stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans and timelines, including identifying internal teams involved, assigning deadlines based on project scope, tracking approvals, and monitoring for on-time completion.
• Act as the primary point of contact in the Communications & Marketing department for managing relationships with institutional stakeholders.
• In collaboration with directors, develop full-year season project plans for all earned revenue, admissions, and performances campaigns.
• Maintain overarching view of all department projects over the entire year to ensure workflow efficiency and effective campaign delivery.

Communications and Marketing Responsibilities

Signage Responsibilities

Administrative Responsibilities

Minimum Requirements :

Preferred Background :

Submission of a cover letter is a requirement of all applicants for this role. An application will not be considered without a cover letter.

Nondiscrimination Policy :

The Juilliard School is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Juilliard community, and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, alienage, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, physical or mental disability, medical condition, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, partnership status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal law. This nondiscrimination policy covers, but is not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, benefits, rates of pay and other forms of compensation as well as student admission, access, and treatment in school programs and activities.