What You\'ll Do Marketing & Communications: * Write clear, polished, and compelling content for newsletters, website pages, social media, promotional materials, fundraising appeals, and other communications, all with impeccable grammar, accuracy, and consistency. * Serve as the organization\'s lead writer, editor, and proofreader, ensuring every public-facing piece is error-free and reflects the New Art Center\'s brand voice. * Develop and execute an integrated annual marketing and communications plan across email, social media, web, and print to increase program enrollment, grow awareness, and support fundraising. * Manage the editorial calendar and oversee the promotion of classes, programs, exhibitions, special events, and fundraising campaigns. *Maintain a consistent brand voice and visual identity across communications, coordinating withexternal vendors such as designers, photographers, printers, and web developers. * Track and analyze campaign performance using email, web, social media, enrollment, and fundraising metrics, and use those insights to refine strategy, test new approaches, and report results to the Executive Director and Board. Development Communications: * Write and edit persuasive fundraising materials, including annual and year-end appeals, sponsorship materials, donor acknowledgments, impact reports, and case-for-support content. * Draft and edit grant proposals, letters of inquiry, and grant reports in partnership with the Executive Director, and help keep grant deadlines on track. * Coordinate the annual fundraising communications calendar, aligning appeals, campaigns, and event follow-up with the broader marketing plan. * Support the Executive Director\'s donor engagement with prospect research, donor and funder profiles, meeting briefings, and pipeline reports for leadership and the Board. * Organize photography, video, artwork, participant testimonials, and other digital assets for use in marketing, fundraising, and grant reporting. Team Leadership & Collaboration: * Recruit, supervise, and mentor seasonal marketing and development interns on site. * Assign and review projects involving content creation, social media, research, and database support, editing their work closely and providing feedback that encourages professional growth. * Collaborate in person across the organization to ensure marketing, communications, and events support the New Art Center\'s broader priorities. What You\'ll Bring: *Exceptional writing and editing skills (required): You are a very strong writer with a proven ability to produce clear, engaging, and error-free copy, and to adapt messaging for donors, grant makers, students, families, and the community.You take pride in proofreading and catch the details others miss. * Fundraising writing (strongly preferred): Experience writing grant proposals, fundraising appeals, or donor communications, or a clear ability to bring your writing skills to persuasive,mission-driven fundraising copy. * Keen attention to detail (required): You bring accuracy and care to everything, from a social post or donor letter to a grant report or database entry. * Availability for an on-site, full-time schedule (required): You are able to work in person at our Newton location full time and are available for occasional evenings and weekends. * U.S. work authorization (required): You are authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. * Strategic thinker and hands-on doer (required): You can step back to set goals and build a plan, then roll up your sleeves to execute every piece of it yourself, or manage a team of interns to execute it effectively. You\'re as comfortable presenting a marketing strategy to the Executive Director as you are drafting a donor appeal, updating the website, or helping set up for an exhibition opening. *Relevant experience: 4-8 years of experience in marketing, communications, devel pmentcommunications, grant writing. or related field.