Edinburgh Fringe 2026 - Marketing Assistant

Edinburgh, UK (Unknown)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the early-stage marketing delivery for two live festivals, coordinating admin and cross-team execution to keep campaigns on track during the summer window.

  • Operations & Delivery: Align with Marketing Managers, Digital and Social teams to ensure smooth, on-schedule campaigns across traditional and digital channels.
  • Campaign Support: Provide hands-on administrative, scheduling, and logistics support to accelerate festival marketing activity.
  • On-site & Time-bound Coverage: Assist Edinburgh activity with weekend/evening shifts to cover peak festival periods.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • We’re looking for a Marketing Assistant to support the delivery of marketing activity across Assembly Festival and Edinburgh Food & Folk Festival.
  • This is a varied, fast-paced role providing administrative and operational support across both traditional and digital marketing functions.
  • You’ll work closely with Marketing Managers, Digital and Social teams to ensure campaigns are delivered smoothly and efficiently.
  • The role is based in Edinburgh with contract through July and August 2026 to cover all festival activity across the summer.

Requirements

  • Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles.
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Assembly Festival

Assembly Festival set the standard for theatre, comedy and entertainment and are one of the largest multi-venue operators on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We present high calibre work in temporary theatre spaces across the city ranging from lecture theatres and churches to tents and shipping containers.

Founded in 1981
Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
64 employees (18 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
23.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.7%
Direct
43.3%
Referral
6.6%
Social
2.7%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~64

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
11 (17% of company)