December, 2015
POSITION TITLE: Program Manager, Open Arts
ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:
Mission: Campus Philly is a nonprofit organization that fuels economic growth by encouraging
college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Vision: We connect college students to Philadelphia in ways that matter to them, so they have
the experience and connections they need to stay after graduation.
Philadelphia is an amazing place to live and go to school. Campus Philly’s goal is to make sure
students see the vibrancy, vitality and diversity of the city, leading them to seek out experiences
and communities beyond their campus. The connections we make for students are in three
areas: civic, cultural and professional. We work with 36 college and university partners, 50 arts
and culture organizations, hundreds of employers and many of the most dynamic non-profit and
civic groups in the city.
Open Arts: A program unique to Campus Philly that leverages the region’s amazing arts and
culture assets to engage college students, connect them to each other and to the local arts and
culture community, and build the next generation of audiences for our cultural partners.
Campus Philly seeks a creative, enthusiastic, entrepreneural program manager to operate Open
Arts. This position reports to the Vice President of University Relations and Student
Engagement.
Open Arts includes the following components:
Free membership program, open to all students at Campus Philly partner schools,
allowing access to free and discounted ticket offers from local cultural venues.
Partnerships with 50 local arts and culture organizations, whose venues, events, and
tickets are listed on openartsphilly.com, introducing students to greater Philadelphia’s
thriving creative community.
Administration of openartsphilly.com to promote events to Open Arts’ membership, and
additional backend management of the Eventgrid platform for ticket transactions.
Initiation and coordination for special Open Arts College Nights, partner events with
unique access for students and extra publicity and support from Campus Philly.
Tracking and measurement of program’s effectiveness and impact, including student
member growth, activity and ticket redemption.
Campus Philly ● Connecting students to a Greater Philadelphia
1500 John F Kennedy Blvd, Suite 411 | Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.988.1707 | campusphilly.org
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Job Description:
The program manager for Open Arts leads all aspects of the program identified above, with
administrative and marketing support from Campus Philly’s communications and engagement
team, as well as student interns. Responsibilities include:
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Maintaining and building relationships with arts partners to ensure students have
opportunities to access the region’s most unique cultural events, identifying and
cultivating great Open Arts College Night experiences, learning about partners’ interest
in the college student audience and providing expertise to help meet their goals.
Maintaining and building relationships with key on-campus staff – in schools’ residence
life and student activities offices, as well as among faculty – to grow awareness of Open
Arts and encourage schools to leverage the program for their students.
Marketing and communications, produced in collaboration with interns and other
members of Campus Philly’s communications and engagement team, to grow student
membership, increase event participation and ticket redemption.
Ensuring the smooth functioning of openartsphilly.com and EventGrid ticketing
platforms; coordination with internal design and communications staff as well as external
technology consultants.
Recruiting and managing interns to support Open Arts programming and
communications
Attending and representing Campus Philly at regional cultural events, including those
held by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Arts and Business Council, etc.
Coordination with Campus Philly program managers to connect across constituencies
and ensure that Open Arts events and partners can take advantage of other Campus
Philly opportunities including intern recruiting, My Philly Summer, CollegeFest and
Create-adelphia events, marketing and advertising.
Data tracking and analysis to manage and improve the program including identifying key
user characteristics, and successful and unsuccessful marketing techniques.
Preferred Skills and Abilities:
 Affinity for the arts and relationships within the local cultural community
 Marketing and communications skills, from the strategic definition of campaigns to
execution via social media, email, in-person communications and presentations
 Strong program management skills, attention to detail, ability to track and keep projects
on schedule, juggle multiple partner-relationships, collaborate with colleagues, and
supervise interns
 Event planning expertise to structure Open Arts College Nights in collaboration with
partners, cultural organizations’ participation in CollegeFest and other Campus Philly
events
 Ability to work independently, to take responsibility for a project, be creative finding
solutions as needed, and “own” project execution.
Campus Philly ● Connecting students to a Greater Philadelphia
1500 John F Kennedy Blvd, Suite 411 | Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.988.1707 | campusphilly.org
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Good networker and relationship manager with strong interpersonal skills; team player,
with a can-do attitude and willingness to pitch in as needed to help colleagues.
Excited about living and working in Philadelphia, exploring opportunities and able to
convey that to others
Honest, with a strong sense of integrity, pride and fun
Microsoft Office applications, database management, online publishing
Bachelor’s degree required
We seek employees who can add creatively to the team. If you have a talent, skill or passion
you’re dedicated to outside of work, let us know about that too.
Salary, Benefits, Application Date:
Salary range of $40,000 to $45,000, plus a generous set of benefits, including health care,
vision, dental, paid time off and 401K contribution. Applications due by Friday, December 18th,
2015 sent to Patrick Sherlock at patrick@campusphilly.org. No calls please.
Campus Philly is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Campus Philly to provide
equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, color, national
origin, sex, political affiliations, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability,
sexual orientation, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the
basis of personal favoritism or other non-merit factors.
Campus Philly ● Connecting students to a Greater Philadelphia
1500 John F Kennedy Blvd, Suite 411 | Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.988.1707 | campusphilly.org