Marketing and Audience Development Assistant
Leeds, UK (On-site)
Posted 2 months ago
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Job Description
In 2024 we published our Cultural Engagement Strategy which underpins our commitment to growing, diversifying and cohering our cultural offer to wider audiences as an important element of our civic role. In September 2025 we launched open up (openup.leeds.ac.uk) - a new one stop web portal and central ticketing system for cultural activity on campus.
To support the team we are recruiting a Marketing and Audience Development Assistant with demonstrable experience in the arts, and a track record of supporting the creation and development of media campaigns on different channels.
Reporting to the Marketing and Audience Development Manager you will support the workload for open up, including taking responsibility for shaping and developing the brand’s presence across social media. This will involve content creation from the ideas stage through to filming and analysis, providing key statistics needed to report to the wider open up strategy.
You will also assist on marketing campaigns led by the Marketing and Audience Development Manager.
What we offer in return
- 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
- Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
- Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
- Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
- Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Ruth, Jones, Marketing and Audience Development Manager
Email: r.jones@leeds.ac.uk (on leave 11-18 May)
or
Erica Ramsay, Lead Producer
Email: e.ramsay@leeds.ac.uk
University of Leeds
Leeds is among the top ten universities for research power in the UK. Our academic breadth, commitment to quality and determination to make a genuine impact on the world around us enables us to achieve extraordinary results in:•Creating knowledge through research and innovation.•Disseminating it through excellent student education.•Applying it to make a difference to society, culture and the economy.We have over 34,000 students, over 7,000 members of staff and a global network of more than 240,000 alumni. Integrating research and learning and teaching is at the heart of our strategy. Our courses are taught by staff who are engaged in world-class research and cutting-edge professional practice.We have strong ties with industry, and work with organisations of all sizes. Our outstanding entrepreneurial record of commercialising our research has seen us launch more spin-out companies on the AIM stock market than any other UK university.
