Thomas Paine in Violence, image: Benjamin Heller
Thomas Paine In Violence, 2017
Photo by Benjamin Heller

HERE Arts Center has supported over 14,000 artists since 1993 as NYC’s hub for boundary-pushing theater, puppetry, music, and hybrid performance. We’re building a multidisciplinary home where innovative artists flourish. See below for information about current opportunities to join our team.

Individual Giving Manager

HERE Arts Center seeks a dynamic and mission-driven Individual Giving Manager to serve as a primary fundraiser and fundraising coordinator on our team. This is a high-impact role for a relationship-oriented fundraising professional who is passionate about the arts and skilled at connecting donors to meaningful giving opportunities. The Individual Giving Manager will prospect, cultivate, and solicit individual donors for annual, planned, and special project gifts; playing a central role in sustaining and growing HERE’s contributed revenue.

Reports to: Director of Marketing & External Affairs
Annual Salary: $66,500 + HERE’s standard benefits
Hours: 40 hours per week, with frequent evening and weekend hours expected
Paid: biweekly on Fridays
Status: Exempt

Click here for full description of responsibilities and qualifications. 

To Apply

Please email the following materials to jobs@here.org, with the subject line “Individual Giving Manager Application.”

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter (max. 1 page) or Short Video (max. 4 minutes) detailing your interest in the position and your relevant experience, including examples of your experience with donor cultivation, stewardship, and/or asks.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. For best consideration, apply by April 20, 2026.

ABOUT HERE

HERE is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in our hiring process, as well as in all areas of our work.

HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.

BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and differently-abled individuals are strongly urged to apply. We also encourage applications from those who may not have conventional resumes.

The minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees at HERE is $16.50 per hour per New York state law.

From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. By providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices.

HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.

HERE’s venues and offices are located at 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 11013. 

HERE’s legal name is the Home for Contemporary Theater & Art Ltd. dba HERE and HERE Arts Center.