Position: Board Relations Manager
Department: Advancement and Innovation
Role Overview: The Board Relations Manager will work with the Director of Board Relations to deliver a highly engaging, fulfilling, and impactful experience for all members of the Lincoln Center Board of Directors. This role will provide support in the following key areas: administrative coordination and logistical planning, data tracking and record retention, meeting management, and Board engagement and communications (both at the individual Director level and the collective Board).
What you'll get to do here:
- Coordinate and execute Lincoln Center's full Board and Committee meetings, which will take place as a hybrid, in-person and remote
- Manage and streamline the process around all Board and Committee meetings, including preparation and all follow-ups
- Plan and support solicitation, tracking, and acknowledgments of all board pledges & gifts: ensure timely solicitation and follow ups, including invoicing, acknowledgments, and compiling reports requested for Board-related gifts
- Strategize and execute ongoing individual and collective Board member communications
- Keep the web-based Board portal up to date
- Research and maintain up-to-date demographic and other useful information on all current Board Members for outreach purposes
- Manage Board-related metrics (board and committee meeting attendance and participation, engagement metrics, etc.)
- Draft briefings for leadership meetings with Board members
- Plan Board member onboarding and orientation
- Maintain accurate and organized records
- Assist the Executive Office with such other duties and responsibilities as are reasonably related to the duties and responsibilities listed above
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You'll be a fit if you bring:
- Bachelor's Degree with 3-5 years relevant experience in a nonprofit role required, or equivalent years of work experience (Master's Degree preferred)
- Prior experience and direct interaction with boards, donors, senior-level management
- Knowledge of and experience with nonprofit governance
- Research-savvy; internet and resource proficient
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills
- Meticulous attention to detail in all matters
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to exercise a high level of professionalism, judgment, adaptability, and resourcefulness.
- Ability to maintain confidential information with discretion and integrity
- Ability to coordinate multiple, unrelated details and projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Ability to be self-motivated and self-directed
- Enthusiasm for the performing arts
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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It is the policy of Lincoln Center to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital or civil partnership/union status, familial or caregiver status, alienage or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, military or veteran status, genetic information, predisposition, or carrier status, unemployment status, domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking victim status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. LCPA is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.