Description
Join the team at Dance City and help us to fulfill our mission of making the North East the best place to dance and experience dance. Help us to ensure our customers are engaged and informed through high-quality marketing and communications, and support the wider team with data-driven insights.
Dance City in Newcastle is looking for someone with at least one year of experience in a marketing or communications role, who can help us to fulfil the vision, mission and charitable objects of Dance City by:
- supporting the delivery of high quality marketing and communications, ensuring Dance City customers are informed and engaged.
- supporting the wider Dance City team with data driven insights.
The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of and interest in marketing/communications and digital channels, and be ready to hit the ground running in a busy and dynamic marketing team.
The Marketing, Communications and Insights Officer will collect data and insights from a range of sources and use these to hep inform marketing campaigns, programming and other areas of Dance City's work.
Essential
- At least one year's experience in a marketing or communications role
- Thorough understanding of and interest in marketing/communications and digital channels
- Experience of using email newsletter systems
- Experience of creating engaging social media content
- Experience in collecting sales/marketing data and insights
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, prioritise workload/manage time
- Excellent copy-writing, proof-reading, spelling and grammar and IT skills
- Proven organisational skills
- A proven self-starter, able to take the initiative and make decisions
- High level of attention to detail
Desirable
- Previous arts sector experience
- Marketing / PR qualification
- Knowledge of how to make marketing and communications material accessible
- Experience of working with multiple stakeholders such as artists, dance companies and funders
- PR experience
- Experience of using Ticket Office Systems
- Experience of using content management systems
- Interest in dance as an artform
Primary Duties
- Support the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager to develop and deliver effective marketing campaigns including performance, community, and education outputs
- Develop Dance City's digital presence reaching a wide range of people and growing the reach of existing channels
- Update and monitor Dance City's social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn
- Take photos and videos for content and archive as required
- Write copy, proof, and edit marketing and promotional materials as required
- Liaise with suppliers including designers, printers, mailing house, distribution companies and photographers/videographers
- Help develop, produce and disseminate high quality print and digital marketing materials
- Monitor, maintain and update Dance City's website
- Supporting the Dance City team with the insight and evaluation needed to deliver strategic, evidence-based activities and programmes
Please send a CV and cover letter to Anand Bhatt,
CEO and Artistic Director:
[email protected], by 12 noon on Friday
19 September 2025. In your cover letter please
demonstrate how you meet the person specification.
Interviews will be held at Dance City on Wednesday 1
October.
Please note that any offers of employment are subject
to two satisfactory references, of which one must be
from a current or most recent employer. Evidence of
right to work in the UK is also required.
If you require this information in a different format, or
would rather submit a video or audio file, please let
Anand Bhatt, CEO and Artistic Director, know and we
can enable this to happen.
Dance City actively encourages applications from
those with less visibility in the arts. We specifically
welcome applications from women, disabled people
and those from Black, Asian, ethnically diverse,
LGBTQ+ and international backgrounds with the right
to work in the UK