Director of Marketing and Communication

The nature of this job asks the ideal candidate to be comfortable with internal collaboration, meeting deadlines, taking on leading and developmental roles when strategizing marketing campaigns, leading EPIC’s national marketing expansion and communicating consistently with the EAD and DOO as well as with our constituencies and audiences.

The ideal candidate is passionate about the arts, about neuro-diverse arts in particular, and in EPIC’s mission. They are driven and proactive with creative ideas that they are excited to execute collaboratively. They are also motivated to elevate our brand and, in turn, the voices of our often unheard community.

EPIC Players is committed not only to increasing neuro-diversity in the arts so integral to the core of our mission, but also to increasing accessibility, opportunity, and advancement for those historically marginalized on behalf of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and or disability. We believe a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is a far more engaging, creative, and collaborative one. Understanding how the growth of these values and practices in wider society is helped by their activation in individual organizations, we are always working to advance EPIC’s implementation of each. Additionally, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion in our company open both our company members and our audiences to an eclectic collection of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to which they might not have access elsewhere and from which we can all learn, grow, and prosper.

On these grounds, we strongly encourage individuals of color, female-identifying candidates, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and members of the Disabled community to apply.

Hour expectations: 40 hours a week

Compensation and Benefits:

• $70,000 annual salary
• Flexible PTO policy
• Health and Dental Insurance

Reports to: Executive Artistic Director and Director of Programs Operations

Responsibilities:

Job Requirements/Tasks:

• Work closely with the EAD (Executive Artistic Director) and DOO (Director of Operations)to develop strategies to increase local and national awareness of EPIC Players and our mission as we near our 10th year anniversary as well as expand our overall media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube), and grow our audience and company member base.
• Help establish cohesion in EPIC’s mission, voice and style guide both internally- and externally-facing
• Oversee/Coordinate design and dissemination of all Mailchimp communications, as well as brand-focused design of collateral, including hand-outs, direct mail, promotions, advertising, website, mobile design and content.
• Assist in the development of long-term, short-term, institutional, and project-based publicity and advertising campaigns for artistic programming, fundraising projects, public events, and mission/brand items as appropriate.
• Draft all advertising/promotional copy and share with department heads for approval. Evaluate the effectiveness of said campaigns via metrics and data, shared with EAD and DOO.
• Work closely with DOO to plan all social media content and marketing so it is mission-centered, consistent, easily accessible, and far-reaching capable. Oversee social media implementation.
• Be available for weekly check-ins with EAD and DOO to better understand programming needs as they develop and discuss marketing growth and plan specifics, benchmarks, detours (necessary or otherwise), etc.
• Work with EAD and DOO to develop a master marketing calendar for transparency and reference among staff as to daily, weekly, monthly, yearly promotional measures taking place.
• Interact intermittently with our constituency—interviews, taking photos and videos for social media, etc.; training available to those unfamiliar with working with neuro-diverse communities.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in non-profits arts marketing, social media management, arts administration, or business administration
• Experience in the NYC and or theatre industry market a plus
• Adaptability and flexibility a plus; skills needed to better serve our community can be trained
• Fluency in databases, web, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite preferred
• Requisite writing and editing skills
• This position will be hybrid between WFH, our offices and EPIC events and productions
• We promote from within! What you give/contribute will be noted.

Compensation and Benefits:

• $70,000 annual salary
• Flexible PTO policy
• Health and Dental Insurance