Work with Us

We're building a growing calendar of concerts, talks, classes, performances, and gatherings of all sorts. We need someone to be the producer. In this role, you will take an idea from a planning meeting, turn it into an event that actually happens, and make sure the room is full when it does. Each program is also a chance to get to know the people who came and invite them further into a relationship with Union House and with our community members.

This role is for someone who enjoys both sides of the work: the crisp run-of-show and the warm welcome at the door; managing the vendor invoices and crafting a newsletter update that brings people back for a next event. Union House is young. Roles and processes are, frankly, still taking shape, so you'll work independently much of the time while collaborating closely with a small team. You will help build the systems of execution that let us do more without losing the care and hospitality that make us who we are.

The daily workflow follows from the life of each program: from concept ideation to a buzzing space and then back to the planning table with new programming insights. For each new event, you will: 

• Shape it. Work with leadership, programming staff, and committees to turn ideas into calendared plans with a date, a budget, and a promotion timeline. Keep track of the master calendar so every program's deadlines, space, staffing, and marketing live in one place and team members know what’s expected of them to deliver.

• Produce it. Own the logistics from first confirmation to final cleanup. This includes agreements and hospitality for artists, speakers, and teachers; AV, security, room setup, catering, signage, and printing; run-of-show documents and checklists; volunteers who know exactly what they're doing. On program nights, you will need to be on site, solving problems as they come up.

• Fill the room. Build out a strategy to get people through the door. Write the program descriptions, emails, social posts, and website updates that get people to show up. Work with leadership on ticketing tiers, watch sales and push when numbers lag. Manage our mailing list and registrations. Reach out to community partners who can bring new audiences, and pitch local press or coordinate with PR contractors when a program calls for it.

• Close the loop. Send the thank-yous and photos, post the recaps, track who came and how they heard about us, and run the debrief for our team that will make the next program even better. Keep budgets, invoices, and records in order along the way.

• Grow our community. Treat every program as a chance to learn who came and what they cared most about. Schmooze with regulars, partners, and first-time visitors. Bring what you hear back into planning the calendar, and invite people deeper in, as members, patrons, volunteers, or co-hosts.

Between programs, the audience-building continues: growing our list, telling the story of what just happened, getting ahead on the next season’s calendar, and turning what worked into templates and checklists we can reuse.

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  You make people feel at home. Artists, volunteers, neighbors, and first-time visitors get a genuinely warm welcome, and you remember their names next time they show up. (Even if that means keeping lots of notes to jog your memory!)

• You follow through. You keep several programs moving at once, each at its own stage, and none of them slips through the cracks. Practically, if you said “Tuesday,” it happens Tuesday. Increasingly fewer messages sit in our team’s "waiting to hear back" queue.

• You build relationships one conversation at a time. With partners, contractors, and community members, you invest in getting to know folks, including the ones who take longer to win over and the ones who aren’t the type to chat with an event organizer. 

• You stay steady when plans change. A late performer, a broken projector, a hard conversation with a vendor or a pesky fire alarm that needs to be reset? They don’t throw you off your game.

• You care whether people showed up. A program isn't a success until the room is filled with a wide range of community members, and you have found ways of learning more about what got them out of their homes.

• You draw people in. You notice the regular who'd make a great greeter, the volunteer who’s ready for more responsibility, and the guest with an idea for a program. You invite each of them to take the next step with us. 

Being a great host and producer doesn't mean being the center of attention. Warmth comes in many styles. Quiet and steadiness are also essential at times. What matters most, as a representative of our team, is that people leave a conversation with you feeling witnessed in who they are.

You've produced events, as well as written the emails or posts that promoted them. Or, you've done one of those roles well and are eager to grow into the other. 

 You might come from arts administration, cultural programming, hospitality, stage management, event production, community organizing, marketing, or teaching. You're comfortable with email marketing, website, registration, and project-management tools, social media, and spreadsheets, and you're drawn to Union House's mission at the meeting point of Jewish life, arts, learning, ritual, and community. You do not need to be Jewish to do this job well. You do need to be committed to producing Jewish cultural and community programming with care and dedication.

 We'll teach you the tools and systems specific to Union House, and we're eager to learn which ones have served you best elsewhere. If this sounds like you but you don't check every box, we'd still like to hear from you.

This role is full-time and primarily on-site at Union House in Brooklyn, reporting to the Executive Director and working closely with the many humans who make Union House what it is. Evenings and some weekends will be part of the job.

Salary: $75-90k, commensurate with experience

Benefits: Health insurance, paid time off, professional development opportunities. Discounts on childcare within the building.

Start date: ASAP

How to apply: Send your resume and a note to careers@unionhouse.org with "LAST NAME- Programs & Marketing Manager" in the subject line. In the note, tell us about a program you produced or attended that you loved, and why. Please also tell us where you found this posting.

 Union House is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, national origin, immigration or citizenship status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, marital or partnership status, caregiver status, military or veteran status, height or weight, arrest or conviction record, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. People of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and others from historically underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply.