Education Manager, Community Programs & Engagement

Overview

Roundabout Theatre Company, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit theatres, seeks an energetic, self-motivated, and personable individual to join the company as the Education Manager, Community Programs & Engagement
.

This person will administer, manage, assess, and produce all Community Partnerships programs including current audience engagement (Community Nights & Theatre Plus) and public programming (Artist Series & Community Residencies) with our community partners. They will collaborate with colleagues across the organization to explore ways to strengthen existing relationships and build new relationships within our community. This position is part of the Community Partnerships team and reports to the Director of Community Partnerships and would start Winter 2026.

• Community Partnerships:
  Oversee the administrative needs of programs and projects with community partners, including pre-production budgeting, scheduling, Teaching Artist payroll, and other operational logistics.
• Community Partnerships:
  Manage logistics of programming and residencies with partner organizations - projects like Community Residencies with Brooklyn Public Library, Green Thumb, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library.
• Community Partnerships:
  Develop and manage program assessment plans for in-person programming including Artist Series and Community Residencies to assess allocation of resources, participant engagement, and explore potential areas of program growth.
• Community Partnerships:
  Serve as on-site event staff and the primary point of contact for community partnership programs.
• Community Partnerships:
  Organize and support collaborative meetings with Roundabout leadership.
• Community Partnerships:
  Manage the development, implementation, and evaluation of new and existing partnerships and programming.
• Community Partnerships:
  Attend non-Roundabout events at partner organizations, arts education conferences, workshops and other events.
• Community Partnerships:
  Serve as a steward for the organization by participating in professional development, steering committees, and collectives that are relevant to the work.
• Community Partnerships:
  Support events produced by other departments with outreach to partner organizations and attending events and related meetings.

• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Manage and produce logistics for audience engagement programs including Artist Series, Community Nights, Theatre Plus, and any other wraparound programs including processing artist honorariums, Teaching Artist payroll, and correspondence with third party vendors.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Schedule and facilitate regular meetings with Roundabout Teaching Artists who facilitate Theatre Plus programming.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Synthesize and maintain an ongoing, comprehensive theatre-based activities calendar for Roundabout’s Education and Development teams.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Manage Teaching Artist payroll and book teaching artists for all audience engagement events.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Timely reporting on all theatre-based activities.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Facilitate communications for theatre-based events with all relevant theatre staff.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Liaise with theatre staff and synthesize post event reports.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Schedule and support the productions of Theatre Talks for each production.
• Audience Engagement Programming:
  Coordinate accessibility services for engagement events.

• Other Program Support:
  Communicate artist requests to the Artistic team and track and distribute invitations for artist participation.
• Other Program Support:
  Support in assessing and synthesizing data for Community Partnerships programs, audiences, and participants.
• Other Program Support:
  Maintain Tessitura records for community partner constituents with our pay-what-you-wish functionality and book tickets for community partners, program participants, and any other stakeholders.
• Other Program Support:
  Create, maintain, and update all marketing materials for Community Partnerships programming and events in coordination with Roundabout’s…