Careers and Internships
Join the performing arts professionals at Purdue University. Learn more about careers and internships currently available.
Purdue Convocations is a leading professional performing arts presenter based at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Openings for careers and internships in programming, production, marketing, education, outreach, or development become available as our staffing needs grow and change. Have a look at our latest job openings below.
Careers
Marketing Coordinator
The Marketing Coordinator supports the attainment of sales goals, customer/donor acquisition and retention (CRM) efforts through digital marketing, content creation, audience development, website management, and all aspects of publicizing and promoting the performing arts events presented by Purdue Convocations. Responsible for the development, execution, and analysis of daily digital, and CRM strategies, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads, Twitter, Google Ads, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as well as traditional marketing methods. Oversee pre-professional digital marketing & partnership development interns and serve as staff advisor for the Convocations Volunteer Network student organization. This position will update and maintain websites for Purdue Convocations, Convocations Volunteer Network and Purdue Student Concert Committee. Responsible for serving as co-representative for departmental technology services with the University’s centralized support team.
Internships
Engagement Intern
The primary role of the Engagement Intern is to support the Manager of Engagement with donor event management, donor research and segmentation, enhancement of donor stewardship programs, developing donor communications, and assisting with donor outreach. The intern will serve as a dynamic representative of Purdue Convocations to Purdue campus and Greater Lafayette community partners and serve as an assistant to the engagement and development team. The goal of this position is to give students valuable real-world experience in a professional performing arts environment. The Engagement Intern should work an average of 15 hours per week during the Fall and Spring semesters. Class schedule must be provided, and some evenings and weekends may be required, at the discretion of the direct supervisor. The Engagement Intern must be reliable, organized, responsible, and flexible. They must also be ambitious, detail-oriented, creative, and driven.
Marketing Analyst Intern
The Marketing Analyst Intern will assist the Purdue Convocations marketing team with projects in the areas of market research, data management, visualization, and analysis of web traffic, ticket sales data, and paid and organic social media campaigns. The intern will complete projects that will inform and support Purdue Convocations’ sales and marketing campaigns to expand sales channels in the professional performing arts events presented at Purdue University. The intern can expect to apply their problem-solving skills while learning and using new business intelligence and analytics tools. This position will work closely with the Convos marketing team and will report to the Director of Marketing. The position work is required only during regular Fall and Spring semesters.
About Purdue Convocations
Purdue Convocations is a multi-disciplinary performing arts presenting organization based at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. For more than a century, Convos has served the region as a presenter of world-class, national and international artists across the performing arts and entertainment spectrum, with over 30 productions each academic year in multiple campus and community venues ranging from 140-6,000 seats. As a presenter at an institution of higher education, Convos has a strong tradition of curricular engagement as it connects visiting artists with classroom discourse in both the pre-school to grade 12 and collegiate communities. Widely recognized for its diverse programmatic vision, Convos explores classic and contemporary aesthetics, presents established as well as emerging artists, participates in the creation of new work, and benefits from the presence of an internationalized, educated audience. Convos is a leader within the local, statewide and national arts community and an active member of national and international professional associations.
West Lafayette, Indiana, along with its sister city Lafayette, Indiana, and the Purdue University community, is a small, vibrant city with a healthy, diversified economy that is regularly recognized for its quality of life. Attractive and affordable housing, excellent schools, state of the art healthcare, and a wide array of social services, along with Big 10 intercollegiate sports and a broad array of cultural organizations make the community a highly desirable place to call home.