Job Description / Duties

Now accepting applications. First review of applications on 8/4/26. Position open until filled.

NATS seeks an experienced, highly organized Events and Auditions Manager to oversee the planning and operational delivery of in-person and virtual conferences, workshops, events, student auditions, and competitions. This is a hands-on manager role in a small-staff environment. The successful candidate will bring experience, judgment, and initiative, but must also be willing to roll up their sleeves get into detailed executional work that makes events, auditions, and competitions successful. This role requires someone who can think beyond the task at hand while also understanding that strong strategy only matters when it can be translated into clear plans, documented procedures, and reliable execution.

The portfolio includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Every Year - National Student Auditions, Winter Workshop, Science-Informed Voice Pedagogy Institute, NATS Intern Program
• Every Other Year - National Musical Theatre Competition (2028), NATS Artist Awards (2028), National Conference (next one is in June 2028)
• Every Four Years - International Congress of Voice Teachers (next one in 2029)

Qualifications / Required Skills

• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in event management, association management, nonprofit operations, program administration, arts administration, or a related field is required.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing national conferences, conventions, institutes, or similarly complex large-scale events is required.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing complex excel spreadsheets, reconciling large datasets, using formulas and functions, and producing schedules, assignments, trackers, and reports is required.
• Strong comfort with technology platforms, including project management tools, databases, registration systems, event apps, scheduling tools, spreadsheets, and custom software is required.
• Experience administering auditions, competitions, application or selection programs, or other complex participant-based programs is strongly preferred.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the field of business, event management, nonprofit or arts administration, communications, or another similar field is strongly preferred.
• A Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation is a bonus.
• Interest in and practical familiarity with AI tools that can responsibly support productivity is a bonus.
• A background as a singer or voice teacher is a bonus.

We recognize that an exceptional candidate may not meet every preferred qualification and encourage applicants whose experience, skills, and working style align with the role to apply.

Additional Information

This position does not have direct reports, however, this role may help coordinate the work of an intern and could supervise a future events and auditions coordinator as the organization’s staffing structure evolves.

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Employer Profile

Founded in 1944, National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) is a nonprofit 501c3 professional membership association with revenues of $2.3 million dedicated to advancing excellence in singing through teaching, performance, scholarship, and research. NATS supports 6,000+ members with a remote national staff of 6 employees, a 24-person Board of Directors, hundreds of passionate volunteers, and an extensive national and international network of 15 Regions and 80+ local Chapters.