Comedy Tour Marketing Assistant

This is a Full Time Job

UTA's Comedy Tour Marketing Department is seeking an Assistant in our Nashville office. This role will assist two Comedy Tour Marketing executives as they strategize and coordinate all aspects of setup, launch, maintenance, and closeout of marketing and ticketing initiatives for UTA Comedy Touring clients' shows and tours. The assistant will interface with clients, managers, promoters, publicists, and other industry partners relevant to comedy touring. This role will be part of growing Comedy Touring presence in Nashville.

What You'll Do
• Manage phones, calendars, and research for meetings; schedule meetings and calls, internally and externally
• Manage and maintain spreadsheets, and draft communications
• Demonstrate strong task management skills, proactively build processes that benefit the business
• Liaise with internal staff at all levels and external clients and partners
• Prepare monthly expense reports for review and submit to accounting for approval
• Prepare press kits and materials
• Collect assets, content, and information to draft marketing letters for distribution to promoters
• Coordinate with managers, agents, and promoters to set up the announcement and on- sale launch of a show or tour
• Regular interaction with promoters to collect marketing plans, promotional materials, ticket links, and ticket headers for review and approval by management
• Creation of marketing, ticketing, and radio grids as well as other organizational tasks
• Ability to review websites, social media sites, and ticketing sites to ensure tours are announced and information/images are correct

What You Need
• Minimum 1 years' experience; experience within the entertainment or marketing industries, a plus
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to be a self-starter
• Previous live entertainment experience a plus, whether in a professional environment or on campus via college events department
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, public relations, or journalism strongly preferred but not required
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly intense client-service work environment
• Highly proficient technical skills with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Knowledge of and a curiosity about key players throughout the entertainment industry
• Understanding of UTA's client roster
• Ability to work evenings and weekends, and attend shows on an as-needed basis