Marketing & Communications Manager, ArtReach

ArtReach (www.artreach.biz) is a dynamic cultural development agency that helps support and drive high quality arts and heritage initiatives. The ArtReach mission is to “make great art possible and accessible, connecting art with grassroots and diverse communities to forge creative engagement”.

ArtReach delivers four key strands of work:

1. Festival and event creation, programming, production and delivery (see www.nightoffestivals.com and www.journeysfestival.com)
2. Public art commissioning and project management
3. Consultancy and strategic development (including visioning, business planning, fundraising and board development)
4. Capital cultural project development and delivery (encompassing feasibility studies, development activity and project management)

Our current Marketing and Communications Manager is leaving us shortly to join Y Care International in London. As ArtReach embarks on its next stage of development, which includes becoming a Band 2 Arts Council England NPO from April 2018, we are seeking an outstanding individual to join our team, who will contribute to our exciting programme of UK Festivals and events and our European partnership projects. This job offers an outstanding career development opportunity for someone with excellent and proven arts marketing skills.

The role is based in our Leicester office, and will have a strong focus on promotion of our portfolio of Festivals, as well as on advocating the ArtReach brand and delivering excellent internal and external communications. We are seeking a marketing and communications professional who is passionate about supporting high quality cultural activity, and who is ambitious to support ArtReach future plans.  The Marketing and Communications Manager has line management responsibility for a Marketing Assistant, with a particular focus on social media and web site maintenance. We also utilise some external PR support.

The full application pack is available from admin@artreach.biz – please read this before submitting an application. The closing date is 5pm on Thursday 12 April and interviews will be held in Leicester on Thursday 19 April. If you have any queries once you’ve read the application pack please send by e-mail. Phone calls (Leicester number) only if essential please.