Marketing Coordinator

INTRODUCTION

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale—America’s leading period instrument and historically informed performance ensemble—seeks a creative, resourceful, and digitally savvy Marketing Coordinator to help promote its concerts, community programs, and special events.

Reporting to the Director of Marketing and working closely with the Senior Manager of Patron Services, the Marketing Coordinator supports all aspects of Philharmonia’s marketing strategy, from email and social media to print collateral and data analysis. The ideal candidate is a strong writer, detail-oriented, curious about data, and eager to connect audiences to classical music in fresh and compelling ways.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Campaign Execution

• Support subscription and single ticket campaigns across email, social, digital, print, and PR channels. 
• Manage project timelines and deliverables using Asana.

Email Marketing

• Maintain a calendar of weekly emails; manage segmentation and list uploads (MailChimp, GMass). •Build emails based on team briefs; source graphics (Canva); coordinate contributions from other departments.

Social Media

• Post content ~3x/week across platforms.
• Assist with on-site content capture and collaborate with social media consultant.

Website & Digital

• Manage routine updates and major seasonal launches in WordPress.
• Track and report digital metrics using Google Analytics, Search Console, and Meta tools.

Print & Graphic Production

• Project manage concert program book production: commission program notes, brief designer, edit, proof, route drafts, and manage printing.
• Design basic collateral in Canva using brand guidelines; liaise with freelance designer.

Audience Engagement

• Develop front-of-house activities (pre-concert/intermission) and manage lobby presence and signage.
• Execute patron surveys and summarize results.

Data & Reporting

• Generate performance reports using PatronManager and other platforms. 
• Surface actionable insights to optimize campaign results.

Community & Cross-Promotions

• Maintain relationships and ad and list trades with like-minded partner orgs. 
• Manage Google Grant and SEM campaigns to target CPA.

Administrative Support

• Manage / execute print/mail projects, seat carding, and other prep as needed.
• Submit bills and track spend against budget.
• Box office cover as needed - answering phones, entering ticket and subscription orders.
• Responding to emails to company inboxes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1–3 years marketing experience; performing arts or nonprofit experience a plus
• Strong organizational, writing, and communication skills
• Proficient in Excel and Canva; WordPress experience strongly preferred 
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and basic database work a plus
• Comfortable analyzing marketing performance and applying insights
• Team player able to work cross-functionally and juggle competing deadlines
• Availability for evening/weekend concerts and events
• Passion for classical music and audience development

TO APPLY:

Email your resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to jobs@philharmonia.org with the subject “Marketing Coordinator”. No phone calls please.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale strives to demonstrate leadership by modeling excellence and best practices for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. We commit to championing policies and practices that value diversity, foster cultural equity, and create an accessible and inclusive environment. Philharmonia does not discriminate based on race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, religion, or any other protected class.

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale is recognized as "America’s leading historically informed ensemble" (The New York Times). Using authentic instruments and stylistic conventions from early Baroque to late Romantic periods as well as new commissioned works, the orchestra engages audiences through its signature Bay Area series, national tours, recordings, commissions, and education projects of the highest standard. Founded 44 years ago by Laurette Goldberg, the ensemble is one of the premier of its kind in the world. The organization is undergoing a Music Director search during the 2024-25 Season.

Philharmonia’s musicians are leaders in historical performance and serve on the faculties of The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Harvard, and Stanford. The organization regularly welcomes eminent guest artists including countertenors Tim Mead and Anthony Roth Costanzo, violoncellist Steven Isserlis, and maestros John Butt and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Philharmonia enjoys strong relationships with world-renowned artistic collaborators including Mark Morris Dance Group, The Juilliard School, and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). In collaboration with Cal Performances, Philharmonia produced its first fully-staged opera, Rameau's Le Temple de la Gloire, and

since then has produced fully-staged productions of Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with stage director Christopher Alden and Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus with Centre de musique baroque de Versailles.

Among the most recorded orchestras in the world, Philharmonia boasts a discography of nearly 50 recordings, including a coveted archival performance of mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Berlioz’s Les Nuits D’été, and a GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Haydn symphonies. The orchestra released the world premiere recording of the original version of Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire with the unedited libretto by Voltaire in 2018. In April 2020, PBOC released two groundbreaking recordings: a full collection of commissioned works by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, and a selection of arias sung by rising star contralto Avery Amereau.

The award-winning Philharmonia Chorale is critically acclaimed for its brilliant sound, robust energy, and sensitive delivery of the text. Formed in 1995, the Chorale provides a vocal complement whose fluency in the stylistic language of the Baroque period complements that of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Founded by John Butt, a baroque keyboardist and one of the world's leading Bach scholars, the Chorale has been led by Valérie Sainte-Agathe since 2022.