NYFA Coaching and Consulting

Cover Letter/Resume Review

Mark brings 25 years of experience as a senior executive at NYC arts organizations, including NYFA, Elevator Repair Service Theater, and Alliance of Resident Theatres NY. In this session, he’ll help you develop and/or fine tune your resume or cover letter as you’re applying for arts jobs, drawing upon his experiences hiring and mentoring staff at cultural organizations.

$80.00 / 40 minute session

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About the Coach

Mark Rossier

Fundraiser, Grantmaker, and Senior Arts Manager

Mark brings 25 years of experience as a senior executive at NYC arts organizations, including NYFA, Elevator Repair Service Theater, and Alliance of Resident Theatres NY.

Mark can offer strategies and insights on:

Resume/Cover Letter
Job Search
Fundraising Strategies
Organizational Structure
Corporate, Institutional, and Individual Giving
Board Development

Mark Rossier has been working in the not-for-profit arts sector for the past 35 years. He is currently a consultant with A.D. Hamingson and Associates.

He was previously Managing Director and Producer at the acclaimed experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service (ERS). He began there in March 2020 and saw the company through the pandemic, developing productions of The Seagull, Ulysses, and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge during the lockdown while increasing on-line income. All three shows premiered live on stage in 2022 and Baldwin and Buckley and Ulysses are currently touring nationally and internationally. He completed an organizational restructuring and passed the reins to a new team in December 2022.

During his 12 years at NYFA, he served a variety of roles including fundraiser, grant maker, and program developer. As Director of Institutional Giving, he raised $2.8 million annually from government, foundations, board members, and other individual donors. As Director of Grants, he was responsible for the distribution of approximately $3 million to artists and organizations in all disciplines. He also oversaw NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program, which served over 300 artists.

He has an extensive background in the performing arts having spent 12 years at the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York as Director of Development and Marketing. He was Director of Marketing at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Capital Rep in Albany, New York. He was a nominator and voter for the Lucille Lortel Awards for 15 years and has served as a grant panelist for Arts Westchester, The Mellon Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, among others.

He was Secretary of the Board of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company and is currently Treasurer of the Board of SITI Company.

When you book your session

On the next page, you’ll be prompted to share information with your coach. Consider: what would you like to discuss? What are your goals for the session? When you book, you’ll have the opportunity to provide this context and/or share any relevant materials you'd like your coach to look over. They will then review these in advance, and provide feedback during your conversation. Your session will take place virtually over zoom in Eastern Time (ET). Once you book, you will receive a confirmation email with the zoom link.

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