Downtown Student Ambassador & Marketing Assistant

Apollo’s Fire seeks a Student Ambassador & Marketing Assistant. This position provides key support for the Marketing & Community Relations Manager through the downtown Chicagoland area.

Please note that this position is for undergraduate students currently enrolled in a Chicago college or university.

Status: Hourly as needed - approx. 10-15 hours per month, mid October through May.

Description: The Apollo’s Fire Student Ambassador will assist the Chicago Marketing & Community Relations Manager and Box Office staff for the 2025-26 performance season. They will be responsible for poster and brochure distribution throughout Hyde Park and the Loop businesses and will help provide an exceptional guest experience at Apollo’s Fire Concerts. A successful candidate should be friendly, responsible, and able to provide their own form of transportation.

Duties:

• Serve as one of the main distribution persons for posters and other marketing materials to local businesses and organizations in Chicago, to a list supplied by Apollo’s Fire. Poster distribution happens 3-4 weeks before each performance. Develop relationships with businesses to ensure prominent & timely display of AF’s materials.
• Promote Apollo's Fire on campus by hanging posters, delivering rack cards to faculty mailboxes, and raising awareness of Apollo's Fire's Free Student Rush Tickets for upcoming performances
• Assist with concerts as needed. Responsibilities may include scanning tickets, greeting guests, selling merchandise, or other duties as assigned by the Marketing and Community Relations Manager or Patron Services Manager.
  • Remaining Chicago concert dates:
    • Sunday, December 14 & Monday, December 15 (Winnetka and Chicago)
    • Tuesday, February 3 & Wednesday, February 4 2026 (Evanston and Chicago)
    • Friday, April 17th- Sunday, April 19th 2026 (Evanston and Chicago)

Compensation: $16-18/hour, commensurate with experience

To apply, please send your resume and a brief email introducing yourself and stating why you would like to work for Apollo’s Fire to trivera@apollosfire.org.

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ABOUT APOLLO’S FIRE:

Who We Are. GRAMMY® winners Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell love to inspire youth and adults to discover their own love of classical music and historical world music of diverse cultures. We perform innovative concerts and educational programs in Chicago, in Cleveland, and around the world. With 9 concerts in Greater Chicago during 2024-25, we are thrilled to be providing work for our 20 Chicago-based artists and staff members. This includes our 8 teaching artists in residence at Matteson School District 162 (a South-side suburb), where we work with over 60 children, 4 days per week, in AF’s innovative SIDE BY SIDE string program.

Dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners, Apollo’s Fire brings to life the music of the past for audiences of today, with Passion. Period.