Position: Assistant Technical Director
Contract: Seasonal (April 21st-August 29th)
Department: Event Production
Role Overview:
Reporting to the Technical Director the Assistant Technical Director is an hourly position that will be a part of the team responsible for the management of events and their production elements for the Summer for the City 2025 summer festival. This work will take place in the public areas including Damrosch Park, Josie Robertson Plaza, Hearst Plaza, Jaffe Drive.
What you'll get to do here:
- Plan, oversee, and manage festival operations from construction through performances
- Implement safety practices specific to outdoors including training and weather action plans
- Facilitate artist technical needs
- Supervise on-site technical, union, and non-union staff
- Onsite management from the months of April 2025 through August 2025
- Ensure compliance with Lincoln Center's policies and safety standards
- Cover the various working hours for the operation of the festival, including nights and weekends
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You'll be a fit if you bring:
- 2-4 years of verifiable, professional technical and venue experience
- Experience with temporary staging and event structures (large scale tents, truss and scaffold stages, custom large-scale installations)
- Proficiency in rigging, carpentry, and theatrical systems
- Strong organizational skills, time management, and archival capabilities
- The ability to demonstrate resilience and professionalism during high profile events, with the ability to troubleshoot under pressure
- An understanding of production equipment and artist technical requirements including ability to read stage plots and drawings
- An organized approach and can communicate well both in person and across various digital platforms.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite
- An interest in working with a diverse variety of arts disciplines, including music, dance, theater, and spoken word
You'll be a competitive candidate if you have:
- Experience working within an outdoor festival environment
- Experience with temporary outdoor power
- Familiarity with backline and live music performance
- Experience managing union labor
- Heavy equipment certifications (forklift, telehandler, scissor lift, aerial boom)
- OSHA 30 certification
What is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is the world's leading performing arts center in the heart of New York City. In these times of heightened anxiety and vigilance, we are holding on to the important role the arts play in our lives: they nourish our hearts and minds, teach us valuable lessons and critical skills, and help us create community. We are resolved not to lose sight of what connects us, and we hope you will consider joining our talented, diverse team.
We are:
1. The manager of the Lincoln Center Campus.
-We are part of 16 acres of activity and one of eleven amazing resident organizations
2. A leading Arts Presenter.
-We curate a number of series showcasing music, dance, and theater
3. An Education Hub.
-We have reached 20 million students, educators, principals, and community members
Who are our people?
Lincoln Center is a diverse team of dreamers, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who use unique platforms in the heart of New York City and beyond to advocate for the transformative impact of artistic experiences.
Lincoln Center People imagine and create in concert with this mission by founding President John D. Rockefeller III - "The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center."
Lincoln Center welcomes applicants from all sectors who agilely solve problems, show up as they are, and can't stop innovating.
What's the news?
Get Ready for ‘Summer for the City'
- Lincoln Center's Summer Festival to Focus on Civic Bonds
- Lincoln Center announces free shows and concerts for 3rd annual 'Summer for the City'
- Lincoln Center's ‘Summer For The City' Fest Returns This June With 200+ Fun, Free Events
- Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center Is Set
Campus Happenings
- Earth month brings music outside at Lincoln Center
- 'Rent' Is Coming Back To New York In A Uniquely Reimagined Form
- Chef Kwame Onwuachi Explores His Roots, and His New York Upbringing, at Tatiana
- Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center
Legacies of San Juan Hill
- Before Lincoln Center, San Juan Hill Was a Vibrant Black Community
- Lincoln Center Launches San Juan Hill Project Digital Hub To Remember the Lost Urban Neighborhood
- Lincoln Center lanza plataforma para rescatar la cultura de un barrio negro
- Chef Kwame Onwuachi Explores His Roots, and His New York Upbringing, at Tatiana
Who is our President and CEO?
Mariko Silver
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