MARKETING OFFICER

Looking for a part-time freelance or PAYE role in arts marketing?

● Are you, friendly a passionate as well as a Digital Marketing whizz?

● Do you know what makes good content and how to deliver exciting audience facing campaigns?

● Do you enjoy writing succinct copy?

● Can you cope under the pressure of working to Festival timelines?

● Want to work as part of a friendly and diverse team?

● Relish the opportunity to be part of a growing and key sector organisation in Scotland?

If so, we’d love to hear from you and discuss how you can support Take Me Somewhere to expand and grow our reach.

A little more about the role…

Take Me Somewhere is looking to fill the role of a Marketing Officer. Ideally the right person will have strong experience in a digital marketing role within the arts, and will be able to work with us to implement our audience facing communication plan.

This is a brand new role that will support us to develop our brand as both a sector support organisation (through Studio Somewhere) and a biennial international festival (next edition Autumn ‘23). We are based in the Tramway in Glasgow.

The role will be managed & supported by our Executive Director; the position is also supported by our Brand Manager and PR Consultant.

We are looking for someone with good copy writing skills; experience of social media advertising; content creation and who has the ability to produce our Mailchimp newsletter as well as update & maintain our SquareSpace website.

You will be a motivated individual who enjoys team working, who has strong communication skills and an attention to detail. You will be able to identify an attention grabbing story/content and will work with the team to inject a renewed drive in audience development. You will be passionate about working with diverse communities and amplifying the voice of marginalised communities. A passion or knowledge in theatre/live art or contemporary performance or visual art would be a strong asset.

If you feel excited by this role, if you bring some of, or all, of these skills and have the outlined qualities, we would love to hear from you. We are open to conversation and in order to recruit the right person for the job, we remain open and flexible with our offer - whether this be about flexible working; office location or PAYE/freelance contracts.

In order to be transparent about our offer, and to provide a starting point for conversation, we provide the following job terms and conditions - but would emphasise that we are keen to recruit the right person for the post and seek to be as flexible as possible, whilst maintaining our aims and objectives for the post.

Summary Terms and Conditions

Job Title: Marketing Officer

Salary: c£26-28k (pro rata) or Freelance (to be negotiated)

Term: 1 year fixed term (with potential to extend, depending on funding)

Timeframe: Ideally starting ASAP to December 23 (with possibility of extension, depending on funding)

Working Hours: 2 days per week, (ideally Mon & Thurs with some limited flexibility - please see comments below)

Reports to: Executive Director

Location: Take Me Somewhere, ℅ Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE (with flexibility for the right candidate)

Benefits: Employer Pension contribution of 3% (on top of employee 5% contribution).

Holidays: 13.5 days inclusive of statutory/local/public bank holidays based on 0.4 fte where PAYE