Vice President -- National Civic Art Society -- Classical Public Art and Architecture

Location: Fully remote, with occasional travel to Washington, D.C. and elsewhere for key events and meetings (fully reimbursed). D.C.-area candidates preferred but not required.

Status: Full-time.

Compensation: $95,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience, plus performance bonus.

Reports to: President.

The Organization

www.civicart.org

Founded in 2002 and based in Washington, D.C., the National Civic Art Society is the foremost advocate for the classical and humanistic tradition in America’s public architecture, monuments, memorials, and urban design. We believe our Republic’s public art and architecture should be beautiful, dignified, and legible to the citizens who pay for them and live among them.

We are a small organization but punch far above our weight. Our work has shaped Executive Orders, national memorials, and the design of the forthcoming Penn Station in New York. We are boldly challenging a well-funded and self-confident architectural establishment—and we are steadily gaining ground. Now we are ready to grow.

The Role

This is the organization’s second full-time position and its number two. As Vice President, you will be the President’s partner in running and growing NCAS. It is a player-coach role: you will help set strategy and execute it because the organization is lean and there is no one else to hand the work to.

The job is broad by necessity. You will run programs, raise money, advocate, and write—often in the same week. You will have real authority and real ownership. Candidates who need a department around them should not apply.

What You Will Do

• Partner with the President on strategy, annual planning, and the initiatives that will grow the organization’s reach and resources.
• Lead major-donor cultivation, grant writing, and fundraising campaigns. Fundraising success will be a central measure of your performance.
• Oversee and expand core programs, including advocacy, lectures, symposia, tours, architectural surveys, and publications.
• Produce op-eds, reports, testimony, and public statements.
• Build and maintain relationships with federal agencies, Congress, state officials, architects, preservation groups, and allied organizations.
• Manage day-to-day operations, budgeting, vendors, and internal systems to support efficient growth.

What We Are Looking For

Required

• Seven or more years of progressive experience in advocacy, public policy, nonprofit management, journalism, law, architecture, or a related field. The particular path matters less than the demonstrated ability to produce.
• Proven success in fundraising: major gifts, grants, and campaigns.
• Strong project and organizational skills, and the ability to manage many priorities with no team to absorb your slack.
• You must be an excellent, not merely competent, writer. Our influence greatly rests on the quality of our rhetoric.
• A genuine commitment to restoring beauty and dignity to America’s public realm. Sympathy for the cause is not something we can train into you.
• Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree preferred.

Preferred

• Experience working with government officials or on civic architecture and public-art issues.
• Familiarity with Washington’s civic design and policy landscape.
• Proficiency with fundraising databases, social media, and basic communications tools.

What We Offer

• Annual compensation of $95,000–$125,000 commensurate with experience, plus a performance bonus .
• Fully remote work. However, candidates in the D.C. area are preferred.
• Travel to D.C. and elsewhere for key events and meetings, fully reimbursed.
• Real autonomy and ownership, and direct work with the civic, political, and cultural leaders who shape the field.

To Apply

Send a resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to apply@civicart.org. In the cover letter, tell us

what you would do first.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The position is open until filled.

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