Department/Team: Marketing & Commercial
Responsible to: Chief Marketing Officer
Contract: Fixed term: March – November 2025
Location: Flexible mix of home working and from The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, London, SE1 8NB
Hours: Two days per week March and April, rising to three days per week May – August, rising to four days per week September – November (these may be worked flexibly around other clients if the post holder has another part time role or freelance work)

The Old Vic offers the ability to work these hours flexibly under the guidelines in our
Ways of Working policy

Salary: £37,800 - £39,900 pro rata depending on experience

Benefits
• Access to mental health support
• Flexible working and a company culture that promotes good work/life balance
• Commitment to learning, education and development
• Complimentary tickets for you and a guest to Old Vic preview productions
• Enhanced annual leave, starting at 25 days per year, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days (plus bank holidays)
• Festive day – discretionary additional day off around Christmas
• Time to volunteer – one day per year to support a charity or project of your choosing
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/shared parental pay
• Staff social events.

Role Summary
We are seeking someone to be responsible for marketing, content and communications planning and implementation for the Backstage building from pre-opening to opening in October 2025. This role will entail running a light touch communications campaign that will evolve into a broader fundraising campaign and culminating in an opening campaign.

Your Team
The Marketing Project Manager – Backstage will report to the Chief Marketing Officer and will work closely with the Marketing & Commercial and Backstage Project teams and the wider organisation to support the marketing, content and communications for the Backstage building.

About Backstage
As part of our multi-year plan of capital improvements, we are approaching the opening of Backstage, our six-storey space for creativity, education and community right next door to our historic building. Together with award-winning architects Haworth Tompkins, we are committed to building an exemplar low-carbon building that will support us to:
• Truly embed our work in the local community
• Reach young people, early-career artists and those interested in the arts to support their employment prospects and life chances
• Double the number of education, community and artist development participants we work with
• Allow emerging artists from all backgrounds to network, share stories and present work
• Provide a new neighbourhood hub with a café-workspace.

Areas of responsibility
Campaigns
• To devise a communications plan that will consider early building-related marketing and communications to funders and local stakeholder groups; fundraising marketing and communications to supporters and audiences; and opening marketing and communications to audiences, supporters and potential users of the commercial spaces
• To create and implement content to support the marketing and communications plan including e-comms, digital content and marketing collateral
• To devise a creative, targeted and energetic marketing campaign to support the opening of the building
• To work with the Chief Marketing Officer, Development and website development teams to devise and build an engaging and accessible online fundraising campaign
• To work with our Associate Filmmaker to manage content capture of the build to use for marketing and communications purposes including photography and video
• To work alongside the Project and Development teams to capture milestone moments for marketing, communications and fundraising purposes
• To manage the brand rollout across the physical building and building-related collateral such as café menus and onsite signage
• To oversee the management of the project marketing budget
• To attend meetings with the Project team to understand progress and establish marketing opportunities
• To collaborate with the Marketing & Commercial team to ensure that all activity is complementary to all other activity for our work on and off stage.

Person Specification
Essential

The post holder must be able to demonstrate the following:
• Proven experience at a managerial level in marketing
• Self-motivated
• Able to manage concurrent projects to tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and confidence in a creative environment
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• A strong visual flair and an exacting attention to detail
• The ability to work collaboratively within small and large teams, managing multiple opinions

How to Apply

We understand that everyone is different and we want you to apply in whichever way you feel best shows your skills and experience. There are a range of ways that you can apply with us:

• 1. Sending a short video file of yourself (no longer than two minutes in length), detailing your experience, why you are applying for the role and what about working at The Old Vic interests you (have a look at the person specification in the job description).
• 2. Sending a short audio file of yourself (no longer than two minutes in length), detailing your experience, why you are applying for the role and what about working at The Old Vic interests you.
• 3. Completing our application form.
• 4. Uploading your CV and covering letter, explaining why you are interested in the role and working at the Old Vic.

As a Disability Confident employer, The Old Vic has made a commitment that all applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for this job will be invited to interview. However in the event that we have a high volume of applications all of whom meet the criteria and identify as disabled, meaning it is not practicable to interview everyone, we may apply a weighting to the shortlisting criteria, or add an additional shortlisting stage before any interviews take place. In all cases we will take care to ensure that any criteria or weightings do not disadvantage disabled applicants.

All appointments are made subject to satisfactory references and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. 

The Process

The recruitment process for this role will be two stages:

• 1st stage virtual conversation
• 2nd stage in person conversation
• You may be asked to complete a work based skills assessment or challenge

The closing date for this role is 6 February 2025. First Conversations are likely to take place 12 February 2025.

Equal Opportunities

We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of the global majority, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse and disabled candidates.

We may take positive action, in cases where candidates are equally qualified, to increase the employment of under-represented groups at The Old Vic.

In the event that we ask you to attend the theatre for a conversation and you are struggling financially, we may be able to reimburse you for any reasonable travel costs.

We partner with a range of inclusive organisations, to find out more please read our FAQs. 

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