Interning with the Long Center provides an opportunity to peek behind the curtains at Austin’s front row. Learn about employment from back of house to front of house and beyond while supporting Austin’s premier nonprofit Performing Arts Center.
For all internship applications, please submit resumes and optional cover letters through our Handshake page.
The Business Development Intern will work closely with the Sales Team to help with everything from leading tours to drafting contracts. This intern will become an expert on all the amazing spaces the Long Center has to offer to vendors and the community while learning how to help secure venue rentals and sponsorships. They will support our team with fulfillment of current sponsors, contract building, venue rental inquiries, and all other components of the sales process using tools like Momentus, Outlook, and Tessitura.
This role will help plan and develop fulfillment related to sponsors including marketing deliverables, engagement reports, on-site activation management, regular meeting agendas, and other benefit opportunities. They will also work closely with our annual partnership program, brainstorming strategies to maintain donor engagement and member retention, and networking with philanthropists and business leaders dedicated to the cultural arts in Austin.
The Event Management Intern will work closely with the Events Team to support a wide range of events from initial scoping through advancement to execution. This intern will assist with notetaking during meetings with clients to ensure that all essential information is gathered, organized, and shared internally to help us put on the highest quality events.
The intern in this role will have the opportunity to support events ranging from board meetings to weddings, concerts, film screenings, receptions, pressers, and more. This position requires flexibility and will work best for somebody who can manage a schedule that includes some evenings and weekends. On-event support may include guiding vendors and coordinating tasks between clients and internal operations. The final project for this intern will be to coordinate a small event such as a board meeting or luncheon independently so that they can exercise their newly established skills.
The Human Resources Intern will work closely with the HR department to organize, recruit, interview and onboard future interns, creating a meaningful, educational, and inclusive environment for our interns and staff.
This role will be responsible for developing a streamlined recruitment and tracking process for a variety of cross-functional internship roles, marketing our opportunities and providing interns with networking and professional development activities while supporting other projects aimed at ensuring the Long Center is an employer of choice.
Other projects may include record retention, training, recognition, benefits, and wellness initiatives aimed at interns and/or full-time and part-time employees.
The Marketing Intern will work closely with the Marketing department to help ensure that projects and deadlines are met creatively, on time, and within budget.
As a performance space, we take our relationship with our audience seriously, regardless of whether the interactions are in person or virtual. This intern will be tasked with brainstorming creative ways to engage the Long Center audience across various platforms, including building paid advertisements for upcoming events and increasing engagement on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and engaging in outreach to local businesses in order to find community partners to advertise events and shows.
This role will involve close collaboration with other internal departments and may support the team with business coding and organizing files and invoices as needed. Interns will be invited to join the team for staff meetings so they may better understand the expectations of a Marketing department as well as goals the team is working to accomplish.
The Data Analyst Intern will work closely with the Box Office & Ticketing team to oversee database organization and management regarding ticketing at the Long Center. This intern will help input modifications necessary for the department’s overall function as well as research and brainstorm ways to help streamline and improve the current systems. This intern will have the opportunity to learn about industry standards while helping contribute efficiency to a functioning box office.
This role will also help troubleshoot issues with software and hardware used within the department. This can include working shows to better understand the client’s needs and how systems function. Knowledge of HTML and SQL is helpful but not necessary. The familiarity of Tessitura is also a plus, but this intern can also look forward to learning about this new system while interning with the Long Center.
The Data Programs Intern will work closely with our Chief Program Officer to help aggregate and analyze data associated with recent trends in arts and entertainment consumption. The landscape of performing arts and entertainment has drastically changed since the pandemic. Governments (both local and federal) have responded with grants and low-interest loans to help venues get back on their feet. Performing arts venues and spaces continue to struggle with dwindling audience attendance. Surveys and data are published periodically from national institutions, various colleges and universities as well as family/community foundations. There is no comprehensive survey of this data that examines through lines, commonalities or larger implications for analysis that can benefit performing organizations as they compile marketing campaigns for everything from organizational awareness to ticket sales.
The Long Center would like to engage one, or several, upperclassmen or graduate students to dive into these issues. Ideal students or candidates will have an interest in music/arts-related business, non-profit administration, music/arts-related policy, demographic analysis and the ability to find trend lines flowing out of these areas for potential solutions.
These interns will work directly with the Chief Program Officer to develop recommendations that can be published and shared with the public through the Long Center’s Create Austin website and our local partners. Students will be free to use this data and analysis as part of a larger effort for coursework or final projects in their studies.
The Long Center Box Office and Ticketing department handles ticket sales for both Long Center Venues and other locations. This role will help support the department’s vast functionality while focusing on the group sales efforts to help develop the program to grow and flourish.
The Ticketing intern will work to identify and solve problems impacting group sales and how to best solve them. This role will help support customer satisfaction and functionality through streamlined research and administrative support such as invoicing and troubleshooting problems as they arise. This will also include researching new industry standards to ensure best practice and help reach new communities for group sales. Other responsibilities may include invoicing, working shows, communicating with customers and other duties as assigned. Tessitura experience is great but not necessary.
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