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searching for a Part-Tme Communications & Content Coordinator!
About the Role: We're looking for a highly organized, resourceful, and creative Communications & Content Coordinator to support the work of violinist, author, and social entrepreneur Vijay Gupta, along with the nonprofit organization Street Symphony. This is an ideal role for someone who loves storytelling, media outreach, social media, content creation, and making things happen behind the scenes. You'll help amplify the reach of Vijay's new memoir Restrung, support Street Symphony's mission-driven programming, and ensure opportunities don't fall through the cracks. No two weeks will look exactly the same. One day you may be researching podcast hosts and pitching local media. The next, you'll be editing event footage into social clips, coordinating book shipments, managing Instagram messages, or helping organize a community activation. The right candidate is equal parts organized administrator, savvy communicator, and digital content creator.
Key Responsibilities:
Public Relations & Media Outreach
- Build, maintain, and regularly update media databases and reporter listsResearch and identify local, regional, and national media opportunities
- Develop and customize media pitches for interviews, events, speaking engagements, and book promotion
- Conduct outreach to reporters, producers, podcast hosts, bloggers, and influencers
- Track outreach efforts, responses, follow-ups, and coverage opportunities
- Monitor media mentions and maintain reporting dashboards
- Manage media subscriptions and PR tools such as Meltwater or similar platforms
- Bookstore research and outreach in specific cities for potential events alongside performance calendar
Social Media & Community Growth:
- Research and vet relevant Instagram creators, book bloggers, podcasters, musicians, arts organizations, and community partners
- Conduct outreach and relationship-building campaigns
- Schedule and publish content across social platforms
- Monitor comments, direct messages, and audience engagement
- Maintain content calendars and posting schedules
- Assist with audience growth initiatives and campaign execution
Video Editing & Content Production
- Edit long-form event recordings into short-form social content
- Create reels, clips, teasers, quote graphics, and promotional assetsIdentify compelling moments from performances, talks, interviews, and events
- Organize content libraries and maintain media assetsSupport content production for book promotion, speaking engagements, and nonprofit storytelling
Administrative & Project Support:
- Coordinate scheduling and logistics for interviews, media appearances, and events
- Manage follow-up communications and outreach trackingAssist with book shipments, event materials, and promotional mailings
- Support volunteer coordination and event logistics for Street Symphony activations
- Maintain project trackers and ensure deadlines are metHelp keep communication flowing across multiple projects and stakeholders
Qualifications
- Strong written communication skills
- Experience with social media management and content scheduling
- Basic video editing experience (CapCut, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, Descript, or similar)
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- High attention to detail and strong follow-through
- Experience in public relations, communications, journalism, publishing, or marketing
- Familiarity with media databases and outreach tools
- Experience supporting authors, artists, nonprofits, musicians, or thought leaders
- Graphic design experience (Canva preferred)Familiarity with Google Workspace, Notion, or similar tools
Ideal Candidate You are:
- Curious and proactive
- Comfortable reaching out to strangers and building relationships
- Equal parts creative and organized
- Excited by mission-driven work
- Able to take ownership without requiring constant directionInterested in music, arts, storytelling, books, social impact, or community-building
- Most importantly, you're the type of person who sees something that needs doing and simply gets it done!
Compensation
Part-time position (approx 10 hours per week with room to grow)
Flexible hours and remote work
Compensation commensurate with experience, starting at $25/hour
Opportunity to work directly with an internationally recognized musician, author, and social impact leader while supporting meaningful community-based work!
Please apply below with you resume and portfolio/samples of work.
Street Symphony
A Project Grounded in Dignity, Listening, and Shared Humanity
As the founding artistic director of Street Symphony, Vijay is a nationally celebrated leader in how music can be a transformative force for humanity, connection and hope. From prisons, county jails and LA’s Skid Row to concert halls, campuses, and companies across the world, Vijay’s work is the embodiment of the generous, generative power of music to heal the world - and ourselves.
visit websiteDarshan Piano Trio
The Darshan Piano Trio, co-founded by Vijay with pianist Dominic Cheli and cellist Yoshika Masuda, is an innovative ensemble that combines deep musical storytelling with intellectual rigor, cross-cultural programming, and engaging narrative frameworks. The trio’s work features multimedia components, thematic concerts, and artist dialogues designed for campus residencies, chamber series, and interdisciplinary forums.
Through performance, masterclasses, and lecture-recitals, Darshan Trio provides presenting organizations with a versatile vehicle for artistic excellence and thoughtful inquiry. Their programs have appeared in major cultural venues and festival series with critical acclaim for their depth, accessibility, and creative frame.
Artist-in-Residence & Institutional Collaborations
Vijay’s record as an Artist-in-Residence highlights his capacity to embed artistic practice deeply within institutional ecosystems. Most recently, he served as Educational Artist-in-Residence with Music Worcester, an organization that fosters inspiring musical experiences and educational opportunities throughout Central Massachusetts. His residency involved collaborations with local schools, community partners, Worcester County Jail & House of Correction programs, ensemble concerts, workshops, and community performances at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA. Through this residency, Vijay sustained a laboratory for exploring music’s impact in educational settings, correctional institutions, community groups, and concert audiences alike.
Visit WebsiteSpeaking, Lecture-Performances & Keynotes
Vijay is a sought-after speaker and thought leader whose talks weave insights from neuroscience, social justice, musical practice, and human flourishing. He has delivered keynotes, lecture-performances, and invited talks at academic institutions, professional conferences, medical and public health forums, and corporate leadership gatherings. His presentations frame listening, attention, care, creativity, and resilience through the lens of systematic research, artistic practice, and lived experience.
Vijay’s speaking engagements enrich curricula, spark campus dialogues, and offer presenters compelling content for convocation series, leadership seminars, and interdisciplinary forums.
Restrung: Book-Anchored Residencies & Workshops
Anchored by Vijay’s forthcoming memoir Restrung, this project interweaves themes of practice, failure, vocation, attention, and transformation into formats that include readings, panel discussions, masterclasses, performance segments, and reflective workshops. Restrung residency programs invite students, faculty, and communities to explore how narrative and sound intersect in making meaning. These engagements are designed for humanities departments, writing programs, arts and social justice initiatives, and interdisciplinary residencies that seek to combine scholarly inquiry with creative exploration.
Teaching & Educational Intensives
Vijay offers intensive educational experiences that support advanced performance students, interdisciplinary learners, and institutions seeking innovative curriculum design. These intensives include performance labs, seminar series on listening and cognition, practice methodology workshops, and co-designed modules that bridge artistic craft with broader intellectual inquiry. Delivered as multi-day or week-long engagements, these programs enrich conservatory training, university music departments, first-year experience programs, and liberal arts initiatives that value deep engagement with craft and meaning.
Interdisciplinary & Special Projects
Vijay’s work continually extends beyond traditional performance models to include cross-arts collaborations integrating dance, literature, and visual media with sound and narrative. These large-scale creative platforms are shaped for festivals, civic humanities initiatives, and institutional series that foreground hybrid forms of inquiry and expression. By crafting experiences that connect musicians with scholars, dancers, writers, and community advocates, these projects offer presenters a model for residency programming that is rich, inclusive, and future-oriented.
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