Development and Communications Manager

Position Type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: $65K annual salary, with paid vacation and holidays, 80% company contribution to health, vision, and dental care, and retirement benefits
Start Date: Immediately
Deadline to Apply: March 15, 2026
Location: On-site at our 47 Great Jones Street NYC office. Productions and event work may require weekend and evening hours.
Reports to: Jane Jung, Managing Director, and Sara Zatz, Artistic Director, Engagement

Mission of Pink Fang
Pink Fang creates art at the intersection of performance, community building, and social change, rooted in the ethos and artistic legacy of Ping Chong.

About the Organization
Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company; legal name Fiji Theater Company, Inc.) makes bold new works of performance and collaborates with generative artists, creating with curiosity, rigor, integrity, and provocation. Our approach to artmaking is rooted in experimentation, the blurring of disciplines, and drawing from lived experience. A community of fierce care is core to all that we make and do. Pink Fang’s work lives in community centers, sacred spaces, theaters, and classrooms. Based in the East Village, NYC, at our longtime artistic home, La MaMa, we present and share our work across the country and around the world.

Intertwined with the creation and support of new work, Pink Fang is also passionate about securing Artistic Director Emeritus Ping Chong’s legacy and activating scholarly and artistic engagement with his archive of work. The company’s approach to artmaking crosses disciplinary boundaries through innovative developmental processes that integrate engagement and producing practices.

Originally founded in 1975 by legendary theatrical innovator Ping Chong, the company has completed a three-year planned transition following his retirement in 2022. Beginning July 1, 2025, the company adopted a new name and mission, along with its permanent leadership team: Artistic Director, New Work Mei Ann Teo, who creates new work and oversees collaborative projects with generative artists; Artistic Director, Engagement Sara Zatz, who creates new work in the Undesirable Elements series and oversees education and engagement programs; and Managing Director Jane Jung, who is responsible for financial, communications, and operational oversight.

Position Description
Pink Fang seeks a full-time Development and Communications Manager to join its team. This role plays a crucial part in organization-wide fundraising and communications efforts, ensuring that Pink Fang effectively connects with its community and audiences while creating new works of performance, collaborating with generative artists, delivering engagement and education programs, and promoting and activating Ping Chong’s archive.

The Development and Communications Manager is responsible for community, audience, and donor stewardship and for managing digital and print communications channels. The role focuses on database and donor management, institutional giving management, and external communications, in collaboration with the leadership team and an external grantwriting consultant.

The ideal candidate is both people- and systems-minded, able to navigate technology and communications platforms, spreadsheets, and databases, and capable of generating strong written copy for external communications. Pink Fang is primarily supported through institutional and government funding and is strategically prioritizing growth in individual giving as the organization enters a new era. This role requires deep alignment with the mission and a commitment to understanding and advancing Pink Fang’s work and programs. The position reports to the Managing Director and Artistic Director, Engagement.

The Development and Communications Manager will join a team of five full-time staff and one part-time staff member. This is an in-person position with one remote day per week. The role includes responsibility for updating and maintaining development and communications operational systems, including leading an assessment of current database and communications tracking tools and making recommendations for improvements to support the team’s nimble and adaptive needs.

Pink Fang’s team members work across multiple areas of organizational activity and balance shifting priorities while remaining responsive to emergent opportunities. The organization values communication, care, and clarity and seeks a collaborative team member to support continued growth beyond its inaugural year as Pink Fang.

Responsibilities
* Manage the donor and audience database platform, Neon One, ensuring that all constituent and professional contact data is accurate and up to date, and generating reports for appeals, donor events, and funding tracking.
* Manage the institutional giving calendar, ensuring all proposal and reporting deadlines are tracked and met.
* Collaborate with the Managing Director, Artistic Director, Engagement, and grantwriter to manage grant prospecting and application timelines, serve as the primary point of contact for the grantwriter, and support the compilation of supplementary grant materials including documents, calendars, staff and board lists, work samples, and bios.
* Maintain compliance and updated profiles across government and foundation funding portals.
* Manage and track donor and foundation representative invitations to events and productions.
* Oversee the annual appeal by developing timelines, campaign strategies, written content ideas, mailing lists, and reports.
* Support individual donor cultivation through outreach and tracking.
* Organize donor-related events.
* Develop and execute a communications schedule across all production and program areas, including print materials, website updates, email communications, and social media.
* Draft copy for websites, mailings, and e-blasts; manage email creation and databases in MyEmma; and generate or source visual assets and copy for social platforms.
* Gather, organize, and track information, stories, quotes, and photos for communications purposes.
* Identify engagement metrics and generate quarterly communications reports reflecting those metrics.

Requirements

Requirements
* Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
* CRM and database competency
* Excellent writing and administrative skills
* Strong attention to detail.
* Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building abilities and comfort interacting with constituents.
* Ability to organize information clearly and effectively.
* Knowledge of the NYC performing arts landscape. A motivated self-starter who works well both independently and collaboratively.
* Proficiency with platforms such as Neon One, MyEmma, Slack, Microsoft Suite, Asana, and Google Drive.

Application Instructions

How to Apply
Please email a resume, cover letter, and three references to jobs@pinkfang.org
by March 15, 2026.

Pink Fang provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Pink Fang is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization.