Position Title: Arts and Culture Community Engagement Representative
Position Status: Temporary, Non-exempt, Primarily remote. This position’s grant funding may end late in 2025.
Projected Schedule: Maximum number of hours per month – 60 Hours from January-June and 20 Hours from July-December
Pay Rate: $21.93 per hour
Benefits: Sick Leave
Reports to: Deputy Director, Community Engagement and Executive Director
Additional details: We are currently seeking Representatives in Council District 4, 8, or 9. Your home and/or current work address can be used for the District.
Open until filled. Multiple positions may be available including within selected districts.
Apply online: https://bpcp.org/apply-for-acsd-comm-engagement-rep/
HOW THIS ROLE IMPACTS THE CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP:
The Arts and Culture Community Engagement Representative will work with the Deputy Director, Community Engagement and Executive Director on the Arts+Culture:San Diego program in the designated Council District. Using your community engagement skills you will communicate with, engage, and draw people who work or reside in the District to participate in the advocacy efforts of Arts+Culture:San Diego. You will work closely with the team to achieve outlined grant deliverables and objectives.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
Promote, schedule, and manage on-site meeting attendance. Between January through June, deliver ten people to each scheduled meeting in Downtown San Diego Council Chambers or other meeting rooms or locations in the community. Track and report attendance to supervisors with a minimum number of people physically attending.
Write and make public comments during meetings. Speak publicly to the core messaging with your local Council District focus at each of the ten Council or other scheduled meetings and organize additional speaker(s) if needed (in addition to attendees).
Staff a day-long significant community event(s) in the designated District. Identify, register, and set up an outreach booth (supplies provided by the Cultural Partnership, collected by you from the Cultural Partnership office) at a community event to promote Arts+Culture:San Diego advocacy efforts. Facilitate local Arts and Culture organizations or interested individuals to assist. Track and report outreach metrics (i.e. number of email addresses collected, Councilmember and Councilmember staff engagement etc).
Promote awareness of email campaigns. Achieve email responses for up to three distinct Arts+Culture: San Diego email campaigns from thirty different individuals who live in the designated District.
Encourage utilization of the Arts+Culture:San Diego Calendar. Facilitate connections with District Arts and Culture organizations and relevant individuals to promote events/programs. Send reminders to share events. Provide education opportunities on how to submit events to the calendar.
Submit content for Arts+Culture:San Diego social media channels (up to 4 per year). Source, write copy, and submit images or videos, for Instagram, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter) per month highlighting activities and programs in the designated District. Solicit content from Arts and Culture organizations and relevant individuals to promote events and/or programs in the District.
WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT FOR THIS ROLE:
You have demonstrated experience in the following areas:
- Engaging and organizing communities to raise awareness and support.
- Participating in and supporting community events.
- Creative writing and storytelling skills.
- Comfort and experience working independently without direct supervision.
You have these critical attributes and skills:
- Align with and practice organizational values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in your work and in interactions with others.
- Have very strong communication and relationship building skills.
- Ability to prioritize and complete tasks and projects in a timely manner.
- Take initiative, ask questions, and are accountable.
You work effectively in collaborative, team-driven environments:
- As an ambassador for the “One Park – One Team” philosophy, a positive attitude is a must.
- Building friendly, professional relationships and utilizing online communication tools such as Google Suite to effectively communicate with the team.
- Be a team player and easily adapt to change.
TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT PDFs OF THE FOLLOWING ITEM(S):
- Resume (no more than 3 pages)
Apply through our website: https://bpcp.org/apply-for-acsd-comm-engagement-rep/
ABOUT ARTS+CULTURE:SAN DIEGO
Arts+Culture:San Diego (a program of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership) is a coalition of more than 100 arts and culture organizations dedicated to strengthening our diverse culture ecosystem and achieving the Penny for Arts and Culture funding plan in the City of San Diego. The Penny for Arts and Culture plan, long promised by the City of San Diego since 2012, would invest 9.52% of Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) in Arts and Culture funding throughout San Diego to be distributed to Arts and Culture organizations and programs in the community.
Advocacy efforts have been successful in building support of all nine Council Members to date. Moving forward, it is critically important to maintain full support from the City Council and to work to grow city leadership support. Sharing a unified voice – and consistent presence – at both Council and City administration is key.