Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer

BACKGROUND

Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.

To achieve its mission, Juilliard has identified seven goals:

• Juilliard will identify and attract the most talented young performing artists from around the world and will strive to ensure that financial considerations are not a deterrent to their enrollment.
• Juilliard will provide an educational environment that fosters the artistic, intellectual, and personal growth of its students and prepares them to embark on successful careers and productive lives as artists and citizens, a well as to become leaders in their professions.
• Juilliard will continue to elevate its educational and artistic standards, remaining responsive to changing conditions in the worldwide performing arts community.
• Juilliard will continue to attract and retain renowned faculty members in all disciplines by providing a collaborative work environment and involving them fully in the artistic and educational life of the community.
• Juilliard will uphold its commitment to the diversity of its community by fostering an environment that is inclusive, supportive, and welcoming to all.
• Juilliard will take an active role in shaping the future of the performing arts by providing exemplary arts education programs to the community and encouraging its students to serve as advocates for the arts in society.
• Juilliard will engage a broader, global audience by expanding access to the Juilliard experience and serving as a thought leader in the global conversation about the importance of the performing arts.

In support of this mission, and in alignment with its 2020-2030 Strategic Plan, Juilliard has also identified four strategic priorities and three core values including:

Strategic Priorities

1. Significantly increase funding for scholarships and financial aid, preserving and expanding upon our ability to recruit the most talented young artists, regardless of financial need;
2. reinvigorate, renew, and retain faculty and refresh curriculum, enabling world-class artist-educators to prepare our students and alumni for a lifetime of artistic expression at the highest levels of human achievement;
3. revitalize our physical campus—our home—into a creative hub like no other, a place of purpose and joy with educational and performance venues that inspire, incubate, and radiate our students’ and graduates’ artistry out into the world; and
4. propel forward our educational and information technology, including in classrooms, practice rooms, performance spaces, faculty and administrative offices, and residence halls, all in support of emerging curricular and professional needs.

Core Values

1. Excellence, as it is essential that Juilliard maintain its number-one position worldwide in conservatory education;
2. Creative Enterprise, instilling a culture of self-generating creativity, imagination, innovation, and collaboration that readies students and alumni to thrive in a new and fast-charging artistic landscape and helps them achieve their full potential as citizen artists; and
3. EDIB, a practice of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). More than 800 artists from 42 states and 50 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 700 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls, and Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the U.S., and the world.

The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division, including its tuition-free Music Advancement Program (MAP), which serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K-12 educational curricula and prepara