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About the Role
MoMA PS1 seeks part-time Production Assistants to support and realize the institution's schedule of public programs, live events, performances, talks, openings, private events, and rentals. This role involves cross-departmental collaboration and hands-on event execution.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Assistant Director of Music, Performance, and Events, Senior Events Manager, and Project Managers of Exhibitions and Programs to support the planning, organization, and execution of MoMA PS1 live events including Warm Up, Open House, School Nite, and other museum-wide events, performances, special events and rentals.
- Provide on-site technical and production assistance for events, including set up, installation, A/V engineering, stage management, and hospitality for artists.
- Assist with coordination, upkeep, and organization of MoMA PS1’s in-house technical inventory and storage.
- Assist with sourcing, pick up, load-in, and load-out of technical gear and backline from appropriate vendors.
- Provide audio engineering during openings, talks, and other special events.
- Assist with technical needs during onsite rehearsals with artists and collaborators.
- Sustain good working relationships with vendors and contractors.
- Attend production and planning meetings, and site visits, as necessary, within the Program Production department, across other museum departments, and with artists and event participants.
Requirements
- Minimum one-year experience successfully working on live arts programming in a museum, gallery, theater, or arts non-profit.
- Superior knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: audio production, video production, and lighting production/design, as typically used in live performance and event production.
- Strong intrapersonal skills; excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work productively and collaboratively with all levels of management, support staff, and temporary hires and maintain a highly professional and positive attitude in a dynamic and creative setting.
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage time effectively, multitask, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing deadlines and priorities.
- Ability to demonstrate exceptional resourcefulness, creativity, and flexibility; display good judgment; problem-solve and take initiative; exercise tact and diplomacy at all times.
- Proficiency operating a digital professional live sound mixer, as well as digital audio workstation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Gmail, Google Docs and other standard office procedures and equipment.
- Knowledge of, and interest in, contemporary art and PS1 and its programming.
- Availability to work weekends and overtime hours.
- Must be able to work fully on-site at MoMA PS1; there is no remote or hybrid work option for this position.
Skills
- Audio production
- Video production
- Lighting production/design
- Stage management
- A/V engineering
- Technical production
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Gmail
- Google Docs
Location
- Long Island City
Work Type
- Part-time
- Temporary
- On-site
Experience Level
- Minimum one-year experience
Salary/Compensations
- $30/hour
About the Company
- Inspired by daring artists, MoMA PS1 is committed to the exploration of contemporary art and culture, broadening perspectives on the issues of our day, and engaging New Yorkers and communities across the world.
- Founded in 1976, the institution was a defining force in the alternative space movement in New York City, transforming a nineteenth-century public schoolhouse in Long Island City into a site for artistic experimentation and creativity.
- PS1 has been a member of New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) since 1982 and affiliated with The Museum of Modern Art since 2000.
Equal Opportunity
- PS1 is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or political affiliation.