Bookings & Marketing Assistant

Urbanity Dance seeks a part-time Bookings & Marketing Assistant to help manage Bookings and Marketing tasks. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, the Bookings & Marketing Assistant will strive to create operational efficiencies for the Company’s artistic endeavors, as well as promote Urbanity’s brand and broader organizational activities and events.

Urbanity Dance is committed to empowering individuals and strengthening diverse communities through dance. We aim to engage people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, both in their own communities and in our own studio space, by helping them discover the joy of movement. Our wide range of partnerships with schools, health centers, local arts institutions, enrichment camps, and juvenile detention centers allows us to share quality dance experiences with the Boston community.

Responsibilities:

Bookings

  • Assist with securing talent for external bookings

  • Assist with coordinating schedules for Urbanity’s performances with Young Audiences of Massachusetts

  • Assist with coordinating Company performances

  • Assist with payroll needs for hired dancers

Marketing

  • Assist with updating and maintaining Urbanity’s website

  • Assist with creating weekly e-blasts through Urbanity’s marketing platform, Robly

  • Assist with copy and content generation for Urbanity’s social media through Canva

Please note, as a performing arts organization with performance and education programs, this role may require working morning, late afternoon, and/or evening hours, as well as occasional weekend obligations surrounding performances and events.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Adobe Photoshop

  • Experience with dance / other nonprofit arts organizations

  • Multi-lingual (Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mandarin/Cantonese)

Schedule:

This is a part-time position, 10 hours/week. Flexible hours during the Monday - Friday work week.  This position may have a flexible on-site/work from home schedule, as coordinated with the Director of Marketing

Salary:

$18/hour

Benefits Include:

  • 1 paid personal day per year

  • 1 hour of paid sick time per 30 hours worked per MA state law

  • Free access to all Urbanity Dance programs, including events, classes, camps, intensives, seminars and workshops 

  • Private studio rental at a discounted rate of $5 per hour

  • One piece of Urbanity merch each year

  • 2 complimentary tickets to each Urbanity Company / Underground performance during the year

  • Eligibility for a subsidized $25 BDA Associate Membership under Urbanity’s organizational umbrella.

Urbanity Dance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a diverse, inclusive staff. We especially encourage applications from people of color, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Please note that contact information for up to 2 references will be requested during the hiring process, and employment is contingent on results of criminal record information (CORI) and sex offender registry (SORI) background checks.

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