Access Coordinator - New York, United States - LINCOLN CENTER

LINCOLN CENTER
LINCOLN CENTER
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New York, United States

3 weeks ago

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Position:
Access Services Coordinator (FT Temp)
- **Most hours will be required to be in-person at events
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Contract Dates:May 15th through August 30th, 2024

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Role Overview:


Reporting to Director, Accessibility, the Access Services Coordinators are responsible for supporting the implementation of Lincoln Center's accessibility and inclusion plan for the 2024 Summer for the City series.

In addition to supporting access workers at performances and access services across venues and events, and processing individualized access requests from guests, this role will also serve a communications hub for general inquiries from guests about the vibrant summer program season.

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Responsibilities Include:


  • Provide onsite support for access services at both indoor and outdoor venues
  • Support advancing of access services with access workers, including compiling prep materials from artists, coordinating arrival and escorting during events
  • Liaising with Production team to ensure access workers' production needs are met, including scheduling arrivals, technical set up and sound check testing
  • Field and implement accommodation requests from audience members
  • Planning, advancing and staffing disabilitycentered social events and workshops
  • Assisting guests upon arrival, distributing accommodations and supporting seating
  • Liaise with the Guest Experience team to support recurring access accommodations maintenance, including assistive listening devices, chill out space supplies and noisereducing headphones
  • Creating and posting signage related to accommodations
  • Collecting guest feedback, including but not limited to focus groups, surveys and anecdotes
  • Design visual direction guides, using social narrative best practice
  • Represent Lincoln Center at community events and conducting outreach to expand audiences
  • Passion for inclusive and accessible practice
  • Ability to support in person performances 35 days per week/weekend (both indoor and outdoor), with flexibility to work remotely outside of performances
  • Curiosity to build experience in arts accessibility field
  • Familiarity with disability culture, access services and cultural arts
  • Strong customer service and organizational skills
  • Attention to detail, with ability to identify gaps in accessibility and make suggestions for future improvements
  • Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, including technical production and guest experience staff, access workers and audiences with disabilities
  • Interest in building knowledge of disabled artistry and artistic integration of accommodations
  • Lived experience with disability strongly desired
  • Working knowledge of ADA compliance and WCAG standards a plus, but not required

What is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?


Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is the world's leading performing arts center in the heart of New York City.

In these times of heightened anxiety and vigilance, we are holding on to the important role the arts play in our lives:
they nourish our hearts and minds, teach us valuable lessons and critical skills, and help us create community.

We are resolved not to lose sight of what connects us, and we hope you will consider joining our talented, diverse team.


We are:


  • The manager of the Lincoln Center Campus.
  • We are part of 16 acres of activity and one of eleven amazing resident organizations
  • A leading Arts Presenter.
  • We curate a number of series showcasing music, dance, and theater
  • An Education Hub.
  • We have reached 20 million students, educators, principals, and community members

Who are our people?

Lincoln Center is a diverse team of dreamers, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who use unique platforms in the heart of New York City and beyond to advocate for the transformative impact of artistic experiences.

Lincoln Center People imagine and create in concert with this mission by founding President John D. Rockefeller III - "The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center."

Lincoln Center welcomes applicants from all sectors who agilely solve problems, show up as they are, and can't stop innovating.


What's the news?

  • Highlights from the Summer Season_
  • Celebrating Art, Community, and Resilience Post-

COVID:
Summer for the City Returns to New York For A Second Year

  • Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way to Feel Live Music
  • The True Winners and Losers of the Las Culturistas Culture Awards
  • Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music
  • Campus Happenings_
  • Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra
  • Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center
  • Lincoln Center Presents to Continue This Winter/Spring With Expanded Free and Choose-WhatYou-Pay Performances
  • The 2024 Tony Awards Will Be Hosted at Lincoln Center
  • Legacies of San Juan Hill_
  • Before Lincoln Center,
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