Marketing Assistant

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Starting salary: £32,110 
Contractual Hours: 35
Basis: Full-Time, 35 Hours – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract 
Workplace category: Hybrid
Attachments: Job Information Pack

The Barbican is a multidisciplinary international arts centre in the City of London.

Across its theatres, concert halls, cinemas, galleries, business venues, public and community spaces, the Barbican showcases the most exciting artists and performers from around the world, pushing traditional artistic boundaries and helping us understand our lives in new and unexpected ways. Each year, the Centre presents hundreds of different performances, events and exhibitions that entertain and inspire millions of people, create connections, provoke debate, and reflect the world we live in.

Firmly rooted in its neighbourhood, the Barbican collaborates on projects with local communities, and supports young people and emerging talent to develop their artistic practice and access jobs in the creative industry.

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The Role

Our Marketing team brings the Barbican’s iconic brand to life with engaging campaigns that connect audiences with our vision of arts without boundaries. We’re responsible for developing and engaging audiences, for generating revenue, and for building the Barbican’s reputation nationally and internationally. We achieve this through a mix of audience insight, brand development, customer relationship management, digital innovation and bold, intelligent campaign activity.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Marketing Assistant to join our busy team working primarily across our Exhibitions & Cinema team. Candidates will have a passion for arts and culture and some experience working in any of the following cultural sectors:

• Museums & galleries
• Cinema

The key responsibilities of our marketing assistants are to:

• support marketing initiatives that promote our cinema programme including new releases and arts programme; exhibitions including visual arts and immersive. Plus, support Audience Development, Membership and wider centre-wide strategic objectives.

• implement audience-facing marketing campaigns, supporting the rest of the Exhibitions and Cinema marketing team across channels including media, design, digital and copywriting.
• lead on campaign administration including building email newsletters, updating website pages and raising purchase orders.

Barbican Benefits
The Barbican also offers a wide range of staff benefits including hybrid working, a great pension scheme, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, free access to some museums and galleries, and discounts on retail, healthcare and on-site cafes and restaurants. You will have access to trained Mental Health First Aiders and City of London and Barbican staff networks.