Marketing & Communications Manager - Hyde Park Art Center

The Hyde Park Art Center seeks a full-time Marketing and Communications Manager. This position is an integral part of the Art Center staff and has much room for growth and transformation according to the person who fills it.

Public Relations & Media

- Creates and maintains media tasks and tracking database.

- Manages key staff members’ communication with the media.

- Works to build media relations by maintaining regular contact with key journalists, acting as primary contact to the media.

- Researches new story ideas (both features and reviews) and makes pitches.

- Oversees regular calendar listing, online calendar, and PSA postings.

- Maintains a record of all press hits, both print and online, and delivers bi-monthly report to board of directors.

- Works with key staff to edit press releases and coordinates regular PR mailings, in particular for all new exhibitions.

Marketing & Community Presence

- Develops and implements the Center’s comprehensive grassroots, word of mouth, marketing strategy, focused on (but not limited to) the south side of Chicago

- Researches local groups and organizations to reach out to.

- Coordinates local flyering and postering

- Will organize and implement an “Ambassador Program” to bring HPAC presence into underserved communities via their own members.

- Where appropriate, places ads in smaller publications.

- Builds relationships with other creative, cultural, or performance groups in Chicago in the service of audience-building and cross-promotion.

- Coordinates HPAC presence at community fairs and festivals.

Planning and Growing the Center’s Creative Events

- Works with Creative Events committee to plan HPAC’s regular monthly events, such as Art Thing and Cocktails & Clay and to develop new audience building partnerships and programming

- Plans annual 24-hour celebration, Creative Move, including scheduling teaching artists and performers, securing in-kind donations, reserving paid advertising, marketing, and recruiting volunteers.

General Communications

- Writes and/or edits weekly email sent to entire data base.

- Updates website with new events, press, and general information.

- Contributes pages to the quarterly newsletter, including Calendar, Highlights, Coming Up, and floating pages.

- Manages the Center’s constituent database and efforts to keep it maintained

Volunteer Program / Art Corps

- Leads the development and implementation of the Center’s volunteer “Art Corps” program

- Receives and processes volunteer applications.

- Secures volunteers for events.

- Reviews applicants for Art Corps and conducts interviews.

- Will develop training program and oversee the management of Art Corps members

Hiring and overseeing PR/Events Intern(s)