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TITLE: Conservatory Marketing Fellow

REPORTS TO: Conservatory Marketing Manager          

STATUS: Part-Time Non-Exempt

RATE:  $20.00 Hourly

LOCATION: 30 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108 (Hybrid, 80% in-person)

DURATION: June 1, 2026 – May 30, 2027

SCHEDULE: Tuesday–Thursday, Core Hours 1:00PM-5:00PM (Average 12 Hours/Week, Increased Summer/Orientation Hours) Occasional Weekend, Evening Events, and Morning Attendance

ABOUT A.C.T.

American Conservatory Theater is an essential gathering place that brings artists and communities together to inspire and provoke. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Interim Executive Director David Schmitz, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness. A.C.T. values inclusion, transformational learning, participation, and rigorous fun. A.C.T. is a Tony Award–winning nonprofit theater serving almost 200,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area annually through theater, training, and education and community programs. 

DEPARTMENT & POSITION PURPOSE:

The Conservatory department hosts classes and workshops of varying experience levels and intensities for everyone to engage with theater and their artistry in an learning environment. Our programs vary from a la carte studio classes to multi-week intensives to corporate workshops, and are comprised of San Francisco Semester (SFS), Summer Training Congress (STC), A.C.T.@work, Alumni Relations, the Melissa Yandell Smith Library, Studio A.C.T. and the Young Conservatory.

The Conservatory Marketing Fellowship is a 1-year, part-time opportunity designed for early-career professionals or junior- to senior-level university students interested in arts education marketing, communications, and community engagement. The fellowship offers a unique chance to receive mentorship from experienced staff in a professional arts education environment. Professional development opportunities, including attendance of A.C.T. Opening Nights, Meet and Greets, Conservatory Hours, and industry classes, are included in the fellowship. Fellows will develop practical skills, build a portfolio of work, and explore career pathways in the arts, nonprofit, and marketing sectors.

The Conservatory Marketing Fellow works with Conservatory’s Outreach Team and A.C.T.’s Marketing Department to increase awareness and enrollment in all conservatory programs, with special focus given to advertising for the conservatory’s intensive training programs, SFS and STC. During the duration of the fellowship, the Conservatory Marketing Fellow will expand their skills in content creation, design, and collaboration. Additionally, this position will pitch projects and ideas towards helping to achieve these goals, and may develop plans under the guidance of the Conservatory Marketing Manager and Deputy Marketing Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, but rather a representation of job duties.

• Under Conservatory Marketing Manager guidance, align with the organization and department standards and goals when engage with conservatory’s community and potential constituents.
• Work with A.C.T.’s collateral materials to engage with physical and digital spaces with potential conservatory students.

o   Assist with the maintenance and updating of A.C.T.’s conservatory web pages.

o   Assist with the creation and distribution of A.C.T.’s conservatory newsletters and email campaigns.

o   Work with the Conservatory Marketing Manager to create collaborative or self-generated physical and digital collateral.

o   Generate stories and articles of various lengths about A.C.T.’s conservatory programs for A.C.T. newsletters, blogs, and production programs.

• Utilize social media to create awareness, participation, and recruitment of A.C.T.’s conservatory programs.

o   Find relevant posts, articles, videos, and materials to share that uplifts the mission, culture, and ethos of A.C.T.’s conservatory and its community.

o   Generate posts, articles, videos, and materials to be utilized for general marketing and social media engagement.

o   Monitor social media engagement for A.C.T’s conservatory programs.

o   Assist the Conservatory Marketing Manager in the creation and monitoring of digital ad campaigns on social media for conservatory programs.

• Other duties as necessary to achieve Department goals as assigned by the Director of the Conservatory, Conservatory Marketing Manager, and Deputy Director of Marketing.

HANDS-ON LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Working in a professional non-profit administrative environment; including appropriate work culture, communication, scheduling, collaboration, and independent management.
• Understand one’s individual contribution to a greater project’s goals.
• Take basic directives and discern when to appropriately add creative or innovative ideas to those directives.
• Understand how one’s artistic aesthetic and voice contributes to an institutions greater marketing and branding vision, through social media and other forms of digital content.
• Create, execute, analyze, and learn modification for digital advertising campaigns.
• Become familiar with a product/experience and translate that familiarity to market research, strategy, and content to engage new/repeat users.

QUALIFICATIONS & QUALITIES:

Required/Minimum Qualifications or Basic Qualifications:

• Foundational project management skills.
• Basic experience in generating inspiring and engaging content.
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
• Alignment with A.C.T.’s Mission, Values and commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
• Basic experience working with Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Power Point, Excel).
• Basic experience working and collaborating in an office administrative experience.
• A passion for the power of training and skills building through theater skills.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Basic website and blog content management skills.
• Basic digital content creating skills (Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Rush, Canva).
• Foundational experience creating, sharing, and monitoring engagement with social media content.
• Demonstrated skill in understanding of cultural differences.
• Basic awareness of performing arts-based production, training, and artistry process.
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with A.C.T. colleagues and stakeholders.
• Basic forward-thinking and organizational skills, with ability to be self-motivating.
• Open communicator.
• High level of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and commitment to anti-racist work.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including negotiation and diplomacy.

Diversity makes us stronger. A.C.T. is committed to diversity in its programming and creating an inclusive work culture and environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you’d like to learn more about A.C.T.’s values, mission, and EDI initiatives, please visit www.act-sf.org.