Communications Manager at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Job Title: Communications Manager
Job Status: Full-time
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $60,000 to $65,000
JOB SUMMARY
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is seeking a Communications Manager to join our team. This is a full time position working from the Museum’s office including some nights and weekends for public programs and fundraising events. This position works across all departments of the Museum and reports to the Director of External Affairs. The Communications Manager will be an excellent writer with experience in creating a wide variety of communication assets that thoughtfully engage, mobilize, and grow our audience. This position includes developing strategy, writing of original content, design, and managing timelines and their implementation. The Communications Manager will be a marketing and communications professional committed to creatively promoting the Museum’s work, brand, and mission with strong experience in the digital and social media realms. This is a competitively benefited position with options for medical, dental, vision, 403B, and vacation benefits, plus all state and federally-mandated benefits, and an opportunity to join a unique art space and small team that thoughtfully celebrates LGBTQIA+ experiences, community advocacy, and the deep impact that art has on queer people and our communities everyday.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE
● Work cross-departmentally to gather information on the Museum’s many
initiatives for promotion on our digital channels
● Ongoing monitoring and moderating of the Museum’s social media accounts
● Timely preparation and execution of monthly communications calendar
● Create assets for external communications to be used across all digital platforms
including newsletters and Instagram. This includes drafting of content, visual
design, and implementation using Canva or other design software
● Track, interpret, and report key metrics and analytics for all digital initiatives
● Attend Museum public events to create content for social media
● Consult with executive management to develop effective communication
procedures and policies for a wide variety of situations as needed
● Work with the Museum’s PR team as needed in the creation of press materials
● Make periodic content updates to the Museum’s website
● Additional duties as assigned
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS
● Minimum of 3 years experience needed in a similar communications role
● Passion for writing and storytelling coupled with demonstrated knowledge of best
practices for social and digital media marketing and communications
● Knowledge of and investment in queer art and queer community with a keen
ability to keep up to date on current conversations and issues
● Strong project management skills, including time management, goal-setting,
multitasking and prioritization with excellent follow through
● Demonstrated experience with Instagram, Canva / InDesign, Mailchimp, and the
Google Suite of programs
● Good data analysis, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
● Thoughtful and professional understanding of crisis management
● Ability to effectively engage with team members of all levels and across
departments
ABOUT LLMA
Just weeks before the 1969 Stonewall uprisings, our founders Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held a first-of-its-kind exhibition of gay artists in their SoHo loft. The Museum grew from this early commitment to queer art and artists. Through over fifty years of exhibitions, programming, and collecting, we have fore-fronted the interrelationship of art and social justice for LGBTQIA+ communities in New York City and beyond.
Today, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is the only art museum in the world dedicated to the artistic exploration of multi-faceted queer perspectives, embracing the challenges of a rapidly evolving society, and putting into action a better world for LGBTQIA+ people—with artists leading the way. Offering several major exhibitions a year, LLMA embraces the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQIA+ experiences. Our collection includes over 25,000 objects spanning three centuries, and an artist archive that contains information on over 2,000 LGBTQIA+ artists—both those represented in the collection and others of interest to LGBTQIA+ audiences. The Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with official accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.
ACCESSIBILITY
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors and applicants. We are located at 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013 (between Grand Street & Canal Street). Five external steps lead to our entrance doors; a wheelchair lift is available by pressing the doorbell located on the sidewalk level near the lift. The galleries and offices are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy
accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk; all restrooms are gender-neutral.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
TO APPLY
Please send PDFs of your resume and a cover letter addressing both your interest in LLMA and your qualifications for this position to jobs@leslielohman.org and please include in the subject line: Communications Manager.