Director, Chief of Staff (Communications, Marketing & Advocacy)

Position: Director,Chief of Staff to the EVP, Chief Communications, Marketing and Advocacy Officer

Reports To: Executive Vice President for Communications, Marketing and Advocacy

Department: Communications, Marketing and Advocacy

Role Overview: The Director, Chief of Staff to the EVP, Chief Communications, Marketing & Advocacy Officer, serves as a trusted advisor and strategic right hand, supporting them in optimizing productivity, communications, workflow, and project prioritization across a complex and high-impact portfolio.

The Chief of Staff ensures the efficient execution of cross-functional priorities, connects information and people across the organization, and enables the team to operate at maximum effectiveness. This role is not responsible for managing departmental workstreams but instead ensures alignment, focus, and seamless collaboration across the six teams. It is ideal for a highly strategic, organized collaborator who thrives in fast-paced environments and excels at both macro-level planning and detail-oriented execution.

As a key member of the Chief Communications, Marketing & Advocacy Officer's leadership team, the Chief of Staff ensures focus, cohesion, and alignment across one of the organization's most externally facing and strategically significant projects. This is an opportunity to make an outsized impact on how the institution communicates, advocates, and connects with its communities.

What you'll get to do here:

• Serve as a strategic advisor, providing high-level support in managing departmental priorities, identifying key opportunities, and maintaining alignment with organizational goals.
• Drives alignment across multiple departments with agility and strategic foresight, leveraging exceptional interpersonal skills to cultivate a culture of partnership and innovation amidst ambiguity and competing priorities
• Represent the department in internal and external meetings as needed, preparing follow-up materials, tracking outcomes, and ensuring continuity of action.
• Partner closely with other department Chiefs of Staff to align efforts, facilitate collaboration, and share best practices across the organization.
• Identify and operationalize opportunities for synergy across verticals and teams, breaking down silos to foster integration and collective impact.
• Collaborate to enhance operational excellence through improved workflows, meeting structures, and shared information protocols.
• Build and maintain systems for the efficient and consistent flow of information between the Chief Communications, Marketing & Advocacy Officer, department leadership, and broader organizational leadership.
• Lead or coordinate high-priority initiatives, including cross-functional projects, time-sensitive efforts, and strategic opportunities requiring executive-level attention.
• Manage the planning, execution, and progress tracking of special initiatives that span across the departments.
• Conduct research, develop strategic framing, and assemble temporary working groups or task forces to address emerging needs, accelerate decision-making, and deliver on short- and long-term project goals.

You'll be a fit if you bring:

• 8-10+ years of experience in roles spanning strategic operations, executive advising, development/fundraising strategy, or organizational planning in a complex, mission-driven organization.
• Minimum of 5 years leadership experience required.
• Experience navigating relationships with government entities, funders, community-based organizations, and internal executive teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders with discretion, diplomacy, and sound judgment.
• Strategic thinker with strong operational instincts and project management skills
• Highly relational with exceptional verbal and written communication abilities
• Adept at connecting dots, synthesizing information, and identifying cross-functional opportunities
• Comfortable representing senior leadership in high-stakes conversations
• Proactive, highly organized, and solutions-oriented

What is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) is a cultural and civic cornerstone of New York City. We believe the arts play an important role 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 16-acre Lincoln Center campus

-We are one of eleven amazing resident arts organizations

2. A leading Arts Presenter.

-We curate numerous programs and performances, showcasing music, dance, and more

3. An Education Hub.

-We have reached 20 million students, educators, principals, and community members

Who are our people?

LCPA is a 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."

We welcome applicants from all sectors who agilely solve problems, show up as they are, and can't stop innovating.

What's the news?

Recent and Upcoming Programming

• Sensory-Friendly 'Big Umbrella Festival' Returns To Lincoln Center
• Tony Winner Shaina Taub to Perform at Lincoln Center in American Songbook
• De La Soul playing "choose-what-you-pay" show at Lincoln Center
• Lincoln Center to Present Groundbreaking Acts at globalFEST 2025

Campus Happenings

• Lincoln Center Taps Education Leader as Next President
• Clint Ramos Named as Lincoln Center's Artist-in-Residence
• The 'Converse Conductor' Fighting Elitism in Classical Music
• For Lincoln Center's West Side, A New Story

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
• 'San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood' Premiering at Lincoln Center

Who is our President and CEO?

Dr. Mariko Silver

Join us!

It is the policy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., 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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in locating open positions, completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Abigail Worsnip at (212) 875-5324.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: Lincoln-1704

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-26T20:02:16