Responsibilities

• Social media across both Parker Harris and The Art Ladder
• Help us run Parker Harris channels (Instagram, Facebook: @parkerharrisco): writing, creating, and scheduling posts in line with our content strategy. Responding to comments and DMs. Monitoring performance.
• Help us run The Art Ladder channels (Instagram: @artistmentoring, and YouTube: The Art Ladder): same as above, plus producing short-form content (Reels, carousels, static posts) tailored to The Art Ladder’s audience and purpose.
• Build cross-platform collaboration. Parker Harris and The Art Ladder are intrinsically linked but distinct. You’ll keep each channel’s voice and focus clear while finding cross-promotion opportunities, so that Parker Harris channels regularly feature The Art Ladder programme, freebies, courses, upcoming sessions, deadlines, and the rest.
• Convert clips from The Art Ladder sessions and interviews into social posts (captions, hooks, calls to action, format adjustments per platform), and post them to @artistmentoring and/or @parkerharrisco where relevant for cross-promotion.
• Other marketing tasks
• Email scheduling in our bespoke mailing system
• Uploading and sending press releases to our arts media database.
• Contacting universities and partner organisations to share our calls for entries and exhibitions.
• Tracking analytics and cross-promotion reporting, so we know what’s working and what to include in our client reports.
• Weekly meetings with the Parker Harris team to discuss projects: with Marine, Rupert, Penny, Imogen and Hollie.
• Monthly four-person team meetings to discuss The Art Ladder comms: with Marine, Rupert, and The Art Ladder operational assistant, to align messaging and agree the social media schedule and content.
• Cross-platform planning between Parker Harris and The Art Ladder accounts, with Rupert and Marine.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of social media management experience. Posts, Reels, carousels, scheduling, analytics, community management.
• Experience or background in contemporary art. It’s essential to understand the world of art and artists in order to communicate about our projects.
• Attention to detail. You’re the kind of person who catches your own typos before submitting, takes feedback and applies it across your work, and notices when an asset feels off-brand before it goes live.
• Platform expertise. You understand what performs well on each platform. You know that an Instagram Reel needs a hook in the first 1 to 3 seconds. You know what works on Facebook versus Instagram, etc.
• A balance of visual and engagement. We work in contemporary visual art, so the way our content looks matters a lot to us. At the same time, posts need to perform. While we don’t want to post something beautiful that gets no engagement… We also don’t want to post something that attracts lots of views, likes and comments, but doesn’t feel like “us”.
• Comfortable using: Canva, Descript, CapCut, Later, Hootsuite, or equivalent tools.
• Right to work in the UK.
• London-based, able to attend events. You’ll be at exhibition private views, filmings, and team meetings, mainly in London with some travel around the UK. You can work from home most of the time, but you’re not 100% remote.

Nice to have

• Experience with email marketing platforms (we’ll teach you our system, but if you’ve used Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Kit, or similar, that helps).
• Experience creating clips from longer-form video content and scheduling them on social media.