Closing date: 6pm Wednesday 19th March 2025
Start date: as soon as possible
Hours: Full-time, flexible work schedule
Location: home based, remote working, anywhere in the UK
Salary: £30-35,000 depending on experience
Reporting to: Director, Little Wander
Interviews: conducted remotely on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Little Wander is a comedy production company which creates festivals, tours, live events, TV, radio and podcasts. This role requires you to devise and deliver strategic marketing campaigns across our portfolio of work with support from the Admin & Marketing Assistant and Production Co-ordinator. Applicants should be looking for a role which demands a lot of administrative tasks as well as creative ones. It is an exceptionally busy company so candidates should be prepared for a huge variety of responsibilities across all departments and have the ability to re-prioritise work regularly.
As all team members work remotely, honest communication and a proactive attitude without micromanagement is imperative.
Key responsibilities:
- Devise and manage a marketing budget and strategy for live, TV and audio projects
- Liaise with the team about what needs promotion and manage the marketing calendar
- Work with venues and artists to promote shows and sell tickets
- Create social media assets, posters, caption audio clips and basic video editing
- Oversee multiple social media accounts including creating content, engagement and scheduling regular posts with an assigned tone
- Arrange and monitor targeted social media ads
- Update the company website
- Write press releases and copy with an assigned tone
- Co-ordinate print and distribution
- Optimise the company mailing list
- Ensure all output is accessible including captioning, font size, colours and language
Essential experience:
- 3+ years in a marketing role within an arts organisation
- Delegation of tasks to colleagues and oversight of their completion
- Working across multiple projects at one time
- Working wholly remotely as part of a team
- Extensive experience devising and implementing marketing strategies across a range of projects and budgets including live and audio
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva and video editing software (accounts provided)
- Knowledge of digital marketing terminology and interpreting analytics
- A commitment to making accessible content
- An interest in comedy
Person specification:
- Exceptional marketing instincts, creativity and innovation
- Resilience to manage a chaotic, ever-changing workload
- Outstanding organisational and efficiency skills to work across multiple busy departments
- Confidence to ask for help or delegate as needed
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Reliable in working independently and remotely to take ownership of the marketing requirements of the company
Desirable but not essential:
- Experience with Mailchimp and Ticketsolve
- Experience working with performers
- Knowledge of the comedy industry
- 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 Friday 21st March with a deadline of 9am on Thursday 27th March to return the tasks.
From this, on Thursday 27th March, shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview on Tuesday 1st or Wednesday 2nd April 2025.
Please email jo@littlewander.co.uk with any questions or with a short covering letter and CV to apply. Video applications are also welcome.