Development & Communications Producer for The TEAM, Internationally-Renowned Theatre Collective

Job Title: Development & Communications Producer

To apply: Please send an updated resume and a cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line “Producer Application.” The cover letter should speak to why you want to work for The TEAM, very specifically, and why your experiences and values make you a good fit for this role. Deadline is May 5, 2025. 

The TEAM, an internationally-renowned, Brooklyn-based experimental theater collective, seeks a passionate, savvy and scrappy, systems-brained individual to take on the full-time position of Development & Communications Producer at the TEAM. We need someone who wants to grow while helping us strengthen the infrastructure and foundation of our org—someone who takes pride in the impact that creative and thoughtful administration can have on our art and artistic community.

Our ethos is “how we make is as important as what we make.” This position is geared towards individuals who are excited about the ecosystem and agility of small, idiosyncratic theater companies. The Development & Communications Producer will spend most of their time working in close collaboration with Producing Director Emma Orme in maintaining the daily operations of the TEAM—and with the Board, and Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin. You will be responsible for Development Coordination (individual giving, board management and cultivation, and fundraising events); Grant Writing; Marketing & Communications (strategy and content creation); Line Producing (for our podcast Live From Mount Olympus); and some company management, contracting, and accounting responsibilities. We’re looking for someone interested in building a long-term partnership with our Producing Director.

Status: Salaried, full-time, non-exempt (approx 40 hrs/week, expanding or slightly contracting based on TEAM programming, and responsive to the life of the applicant)

Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn (generally 3 days in-person, 2 days remote) 

Start Date: June, 2025

Reports To: Producing Director

Salary: $57-62,000

Benefits: Health insurance reimbursement of the max amount federally allowable (e.g., $529/month for an individual with no dependents) + access to an opt-in 401(k) benefit plan

Vacation: The TEAM offers 14 days of paid vacation for employees, to be scheduled in reasonable accordance with org activity and requested at least 4 weeks in advance. Additionally, The TEAM office is closed annually for one week each summer and one week around the end of the year.

We strongly encourage applications from people of color, people from working class backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and people from other historically marginalized communities. We welcome neurodiversity and a range of abilities across our candidate pool. The TEAM was founded by white artists and has worked in partnership with facilitators rooted in anti-oppression work to disrupt white-supremacist and colonial structures within our institution. Along with the PD, the DCSP Producer will have regular access to a trained leadership coach focusing on anti-racism and anti-oppression practices.

Role Responsibilities:

The Development & Communications Producer will be responsible for leading and supporting the Producing Director in the following areas: 

Development & Fundraising

• Collaborate with the TEAM leadership in implementing individual giving strategy
• Process & maintain records for individual & institutional giving
• Prepare & send tax acknowledgement letters
• Maintain the grant applications & reporting calendar 
• Generate first drafts of all grants & reports
• Identify new institutional funder prospects and maintain existing relationships
• Support scheduling, management, and expansion of Board
• Line produce cultivation events

Marketing, Communications, and Engagement

• Devise & implement social media & communications strategy
• Design all assets for social media and e-blasts, including editing short videos as needed, and manage external designers as needed
• Maintain internal production media archive
• Lead the upkeep of our Wordpress website
• Maintain updated mailing lists in Mailchimp, Salesforce, and Internal Contact Sheets
• Collaborate with presenting partners, locally and on tour, to build out audience engagement activities around RECONSTRUCTING and future mainstages 
• Managing ticket for all public events, including coordination of comps with presenting venues

Special Projects & Other

• Serve as line producer & company manager for Live From Mount Olympus, a Greek Mythology podcast for kids that we produce in collaboration with the Onassis Foundation
• Facilitate community events — outings to TEAM artists’ shows, the annual holiday party, community gatherings, 
• Support planning and implementation of the TEAM’s version of a strategic planning process
• Some office management and inventorying work

ABOUT YOU

• You are self-motivated and highly organized — your instinct is to build systems where they’re missing or improve them where they already exist
• You have strongly held values and an interest in the living experiment of putting anti-oppressive and creative ideals into practical “get-shit-done” producing practices
• You are a strong writer and clear communicator
• You bring a sense of humor to your work
• You are scrappy and a team player—you’re game to get your hands dirty in the not-always-glamorous daily labor of running a small org
• You tactfully track and prioritize distinct projects with overlapping deadlines, and you are honest with yourself and the Producing Director when you hit capacity problems
• You are assertive, patient, and have the tools to practice conflict navigation
• You know how to balance the micro and the macro—be incredibly attentive to detail while keeping an eye on the bigger picture

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS/PAST EXPERIENCE:

• Required: You have 2+ years of experience working in the administration of a cultural organization—specifically in development, marketing (strategy, coordination, and content creation), line producing, audience outreach and engagement, operations, or executive assistance.
• Ideal: You have a sense of the NYC nonprofit theater ecosystem—and the related funding landscape
• Ideal: You have experience writing or editing grants
• Ideal: You have experience with graphic design, video & photo editing, and social media strategy
• Ideal: You have experience working in some or all of the softwares the TEAM frequently uses: Salesforce, Mailchimp, Wordpress, Dropbox, Google Drive, Excel, Jotform, Canva, InDesign, Premiere or iMovie, Photoshop, Airtable, Zoom, Xero. 
• Ideal but not a priority: You have some experience with touring productions (in the experimental/interdisciplinary circuit, not commercial tours) 

ABOUT THE TEAM (www.theteamplays.org)

The TEAM is a small, 20-year-old collective that thrives along its growing edges and punches above its weight. The TEAM’s mission is to collaboratively create, produce and tour new works about the experience of living in the United States today, using anti-oppressive producing practices. Led by Producing Director Emma Orme and Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin and spirited by some of the most wild and deep artists making today, we have created and toured 12 works, including Mission Drift, RoosevElvis, and Primer for a Failed Superpower. The TEAM’s current programmatic focuses are: the upcoming, rolling world premiere of our newest “mainstage” work Reconstructing; Petri Projects, an annual artist-driven new work development lab open to artists in the TEAM community, which culminates in the Petri Potluck; the recording and distribution of Live From Mount Olympus, a podcast of Greek myths told for today and aimed at audiences aged 9-13; occasional workshops on self-producing and the TEAM’s devising methodology; seeding ideas for the next TEAM mainstage; and capacity-building/mission-alignment work (board expansion, org visioning, etc). 

For a quick video history of the TEAM, click here. 

And to hear our artists speak to the importance of the TEAM, click here.

To apply: Please send an updated resume and a cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line “Producer Application.” The cover letter should speak to why you want to work for The TEAM, very specifically, and why your experiences and values make you a good fit for this role. Deadline is May 5, 2025. 

05/05/2025