Full-Time Communications Manager
Job Description
The RSL works as a voice to celebrate and champion the value of literature, to engage the public in literature, and to honour and encourage great writers. We celebrate the transformative power of literature and champion the great diversity of writing and writers in the UK, from the last 200 years and today.
In November 2020, the RSL launched its five-year 200th birthday festival, RSL 200. Over the coming years, the RSL 200 will explore, interrogate and reimagine the UK’s literary landscape as we celebrate the best in British writing, past, present, and future. Through the festival, the RSL will continue to share literature with the greatest number of people across the UK and beyond, showing the power of literature to shape society and to change and individual life through new and continuing programmes.
An important part of the role of the Communications Manager is to make this project come alive to current and new audiences, readers, and writers.
This is an opportunity for a dynamic, experienced, and highly organised Communications Manager to join the Royal Society of Literature’s small, collaborative team.
Reporting to the Director, your work will be bringing to life the Communications Strategy produced by a consultant and the Director, overseeing the RSL’s communications and audience development. You will create content for the website, press and social media that inspires all our audiences to actively engage with our work and literature as a whole. You will collect and analyse data to read and respond to our current audiences and grow new audiences for our public events programmes and help increase Membership. Fundraising is a connected to the work of the whole team, so all media needs to help drive donations, and increase income generation in line with the organisation’s aims and charitable objectives.
The postholder will be leading on the development of a new website and refresh of the brand in 2022. This is an exciting time to join our team and diversify the RSL’s growing programme of work.
As well as sharing vital aspects of our work with the public and partners, you will bring a sense of fun to our communications, feeling confident to inject your own personality into developing the tone and voice of the organisation. We are a highly committed team of people dedicated to our work and are looking for a skilled and capable candidate to champion what the RSL does, to all in our current community, and beyond to new audiences.
MAIN DUTIES
DIGITAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
- We want you to be experienced in website content creation and delivery
CONTENT CREATION AND DELIVERY
- We want you to create exciting and engaging content
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
- We want you to be confident with data, how to capture it and use it to inform future decisions
EXPERIENCE
- A minimum of three years’ experience of managing websites, social media channels and press, within an arts or culture context, preferably literature
- Experience of communicating – in person and in writing – with a wide range of stakeholders including writers and other artists, Trustees, and sponsors.
- Experience of meeting complex challenges to ensure communications are delivered on time and to budget, especially through reciprocal partnerships and innovation.
- Proven success in raising the profile of an organisation; demonstrable experience of audience development.
- Experience of creating dynamic content for a diverse range of audiences across multiple digital and print channels.
- Experience of coordinating a wide range of activities and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritise and meet deadlines.
Salary: £29,500-£31,500, dependent on experience
Terms: Full-time, permanent
Place of work: Mix of office (based in central London) and homeworking
Benefits: Pension, employee discount scheme, employee assistance programme, season ticket loan, 25 days holiday – plus bank holidays and two additional days off over Christmas
Deadline: Tuesday 4 October
Please see the job description and person specification on our website for full details on the role. Applications are only accepted through our website, using the online form.
Literature for everyone
The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe literature is for everyone, people of all ethnicities, gender identities, disabilities, cultures, religions/beliefs, sexual orientations or ages. We are a queer/female-led team that is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We prize integrity, creativity and thoughtfulness. As such, we encourage applications from people under-represented in the creative industries, particularly candidates from the global majority, and disabled candidates.
How to Apply
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