Special Events Manager

JOB TITLE: Special Events Manager

DEPARTMENT: Development

REPORTS TO: Director of Special Events

 

New York’s first museum, The New York Historical is a leading cultural institution documenting over 400 years of American history through a peerless collection of art, documents, and artifacts. Our offerings span groundbreaking exhibitions; acclaimed educational programs for teachers and students nationwide; and thought-provoking conversations among leading scholars, journalists, and thinkers about the past, present, and future of the American experiment. The New York Historical is a museum of museums and a collection of collections. We are home to the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, the Center for Women’s History, the Reiss Family Graduate Institute for Constitutional History, the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Center for Teaching Democracy, the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, and the future American LGBTQ+ Museum. We elevate the perspectives and scholarship that define the United States’ democratic heritage and challenge us all to shape our ongoing history for the better.

 

The New York Historical is looking for a full-time events professional to serve as our Special Events Manager. Reporting to the Director of Special Events, the Special Events Manager is a client-facing member of a team that plans and executes Museum rental events, as well as Special Events for New York Historical, such as high-level donor and membership events. The ideal candidate should bring successful event rental sales experience, demonstrating a proven ability to meet or exceed target goals. Candidates must be meticulously detail-oriented in relation to event logistics and communications, and be able to address the client's needs with diplomacy, optimizing client satisfaction while also being mindful of the interests of New York Historical, its staff, its spaces and collections.

 

This is a full-time, exempt position with a base 35 hour per week schedule; however, this person will need to work early and/or late hours, long days, and on nights and weekends based on the events schedule.

 

 

Must be able to lift, bend, stoop, walk and stand for 4-6 hours daily. Sedentary computer work is also required.

 

The expected salary range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000. The successful candidate will be offered a salary within this range based on specific factors such as their individual qualifications, experience, and internal equity considerations. 

 

The New York Historical provides a generous benefits package for eligible employees to support their health and wellbeing, which includes: