Start date: Ideally by Monday 29th July 2024
End date: Mid December 2024
Hours: 35 hours Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, some flexibility possible
Location: home based, remote working, anywhere in the UK
Salary: 20,820.80 pro rata
Closing date: 9am Monday 8th July
Interviews: conducted remotely on Thursday 18th July
Little Wander is a comedy production company which creates festivals, tours, live events, TV, radio and podcasts. This role requires you to provide administrative and design support to the live events, tours and marketing departments as well as ad hoc projects.
Key responsibilities:
- Collating box office reports and other data entry
- Chasing blurbs and technical requirements
- Liaising with venues, performers, agents and other stakeholders
- Formatting documents
- Creating marketing assets
- Creating social media content and posting to multiple accounts and platforms
- General admin support across busy departments as required
Essential experience:
- One year professional administrative experience in an office or equivalent environment OR recent graduate with a relevant degree
- Proficient with Google Suite and Microsoft Office programmes
- Experience with Photoshop and/or Canva and/or equivalent design software
- Experience with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
- A commitment to making accessible content
Person specification:
- An interest in comedy and the comedy industry
- Outstanding organisational and efficiency skills to work across multiple busy departments
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Confidence to ask for support when required
- Enthusiasm to often work independently and take ownership of workload
Desirable but not essential:
- Proficient in more complex design tasks such as GIFs
- Understanding of marketing, design and technical language for live events
- Experience working as part of a team remotely
- Experience working with performers and/or live events
- Welsh and/or living in Wales and/or Welsh speaker
We welcome applications from everyone especially those who identify as BIPOC and/or members of the global majority and/or disabled and/or a marginalised gender and/or economically disenfranchised and/or as a member of any other under-considered community.
Application process:
Longlisted candidates will be invited to complete some hypothetical tasks to give both parties the opportunity to see if the role is a good fit. These should take no longer than 30 minutes and answers will not be used outside the application process. Longlisting will take place on Monday 8th July with a deadline of 9am on Monday 15th July to return the tasks.
If you have previously applied for a role with Little Wander and completed similar tasks, you can skip this part of the process if you prefer.
From this, shortlisted candidates will be invited to interviews held on Thursday 18th July.
To apply:
Please email jo@littlewander.co.uk with any questions or with a short covering letter and CV to apply. Video applications are also welcome.