Head of Audience Development and Distribution

A unique opportunity to make a significant impact in audience development for the UK’s arts and cultural sector.

The Space is a unique commissioning and development organisation, which supports greater digital and broadcast access to arts and culture in the UK. Founded by the BBC and Arts Council England in 2013 as a Community Interest Company, our objectives are: to increase the audience reach and impact of publically funded arts and culture through digital and broadcast technologies, to build digital skills and confidence across the arts sector and to support the development and creation of innovative new content using digital technology.

We look to increase reach and engagement with artistic and cultural content that would be inaccessible for many people because of cost, disability, geography or other access reasons. We support UK arts and cultural organisations to reach new audiences who may not consume cultural content through traditional routes, including younger people and those from diverse backgrounds.

About the Role

We are recruiting a Head of Audience Development and Distribution to join our team in Birmingham. Reporting to the CEO/Creative Director, you will lead in the delivery of an ambitious and effective audience development and distribution strategy, including input into commissioning decisions, development of distribution partnerships and providing mentoring and training to arts and cultural organisations.

You will have significant experience of online audience development, ideally in a creative or cultural context. You will be able to operate at a strategic level in marketing, communications and digital content distribution, with skills including partnership development and complex stakeholder management.

You will have a strong understanding of digital content aggregation and distribution, audience analysis and segmentation and the ability to manage and interpret web and social media analytics and other marketing data to inform audience development planning.

A full job specification for this role and details of how to apply is available here: http://assets.thespace.org/HeadofAudienceDevelopment.pdf

Closing date for applications: 9am Tuesday 3 April 2018

This job is only open to individuals who have the right to work in the UK.