Live Events Marketing Assistant

Berklee College of Music; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Berklee College of Music’s Red Room at Cafe 939 seeks a Promotion/Marketing Assistant to help maximize event visibility and grow audiences. The role supports the venue’s marketing team with social media, digital content, graphics, and grassroots promotion, while representing Berklee to artists and partners.

The role emphasizes reliability, creativity, and proactive project ownership in a fast-paced live-entertainment setting, with a hybrid in-person/remote schedule.

Qualifications

• Strong reliability and dependability are required.

Responsibilities

• Create posters, social graphics, and other marketing materials.
• Create and maintain social media content promoting upcoming events, including posts, stories, short-form video, and other platform-appropriate content.
• Attend select Red Room events to capture photo and video content.
• Edit and organize photo and video content for use across social and digital platforms.
• Post events to appropriate online calendars, event-listing sites, and community resources.
• Communicate professionally with artists, managers, agents, event leaders, and planners before shows to gather marketing materials and coordinate promotional efforts.
• Assist in developing marketing strategies for individual events based on the artist, audience, ticket sales, and promotional opportunities.
• Monitor ticket sales and work with supervisors to identify events that may require additional promotional support.
• Help identify businesses, organizations, student groups, and community partners that may provide relevant promotional opportunities.
• Brainstorm and pitch creative content and promotional ideas rather than relying solely on assigned tasks.
• Maintain organized project files, marketing materials, content, and other departmental resources.
• Keep supervisors informed of project status, completed work, challenges, and upcoming priorities.
• Complete other duties and projects assigned by the supervisor or manager.

Skills

Reliability

Written communication

Verbal communication

Independence

Multitasking

Creativity

Attention to detail

Social media

Content creation

Tools

Canva

Photography

Video editing

Job description

Berklee College of Music’s Red Room at Cafe 939 seeks a Promotion/Marketing Assistant to help maximize event visibility and grow audiences. The role supports the venue’s marketing team with social media, digital content, graphics, and grassroots promotion, while representing Berklee to artists and partners.

The role emphasizes reliability, creativity, and proactive project ownership in a fast-paced live-entertainment setting, with a hybrid in-person/remote schedule.