• Job Description

  Req#: 482142

  Position: Seasonal Artist Services Assistant

  Department: Programming

  Role Overview: This temporary position has a strong focus on hospitality, backstage support and artist services for Lincoln Center’s Summer Festival. The Seasonal Artist Services Assistant's primary responsibility is to support the Artist Services Associate and Programming Manager to uphold Lincoln Center’s hospitality standards while building a welcoming and inclusive backstage culture. This position is ideal for anyone looking to gain hands-on experience with Artistic Producing in a Festival setting.

  What you’ll get to do here:

  • Meet and greet artists and company members on day of arrival.
  • Prepare and set-up Green Rooms and Dressing Rooms as needed.
  • Serve as a resource for Lincoln Center’s artists backstage for any off-stage support they may need
  • Arrange artists’ hospitality according to Festival standards and/or the contracted needs of the artists
  • Organize meals and beverages for rehearsals and performances
  • Create, update & distribute artist backstage passes
  • Keep track of expenses and work with team in credit cards reconciliation.
  • Support the Artist Services Manager in troubleshooting any day-of needs including running errands, managing laundry, equipment pick-ups, etc.
  • Place catering and hospitality orders as needed
  • Support Programming Manager in updating hospitality inventory and organizing supplies.
  • Coordinate and manage list of guest names for complimentary and VIP performance tickets for artists and staff.
  • Represent Lincoln Center onsite as a welcoming face of the Programming Department

  Qualifications:

  • 1-2 years of experience working live performance events with a keen interest in working with artists. Background in Company Management or Stage Management ideal, but not required.
  • Ability to, and willingness to work a robust Festival schedule outdoors during summer months.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, results driven department/organization
  • Ability to self-direct.
  • Comfort with moving and transporting road cases and hospitality boxes
  • A passion for the performing arts and equitable work practices.

  
  

  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?

  Highlights from the Summer Season

  • Celebrating Art, Community, and Resilience Post-COVID: Summer for the City Returns to New York For A Second Year
  • Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way to Feel Live Music
  • The True Winners and Losers of the Las Culturistas Culture Awards
  • Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music

  Campus Happenings

  • Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra
  • Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center
  • Lincoln Center Presents to Continue This Winter/Spring With Expanded Free and Choose-What-You-Pay Performances
  • The 2024 Tony Awards Will Be Hosted 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

  Who is our President and CEO?

  Henry Timms is the co-founder of #GivingTuesday and the co-author of New Power.

  
  

  Join us!

  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.

  
  

• About the company

  3-acre complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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