Communications and Marketing Lead

Pay: £40,000-£46,000 per annum pro rata, depending on experience
Contract: Permanent. Full time (we are open to discussing flexible and part-time working and job shares)
Apply by: Friday 28 March 2025 at 9:00am GMT

We are seeking a strategic, collaborative and creative communicator to launch the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, engage and grow target audiences, and develop and leverage our content and brand.

As Communications and Marketing Lead, you will promote the new Centre and its exhibitions, activities and products to target audiences and stakeholders. You will work with colleagues to find and build sustainable relationships with audiences, visitors, participants, supporters and stakeholders, devising engaging campaigns and using data to grow engagement and revenue. You will curate and amplify content that champions illustration and positions us as the ‘go to’ voice for the artform. You will develop our visual identity and tone of voice to be distinctive, enticing and relevant, and monetise the brand through licensing and retail.

You’ll be a great collaborator, bringing experience of successful communications campaigns and deep commitment to the growth and diversity of arts audiences, underpinned by a rigorous, analytical approach and a keen eye for effective design and copy.

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration champions art that is dynamic and diverse; we want our team to reflect that. We’re an inclusive and flexible employer, happy to hear from full-timers, part-timers and job-shares.

In recognition of underrepresentation in our staff team we will be offering guaranteed interviews to D/deaf and disabled applicants and applicants of African, Caribbean, Central Asian, East Asian, Latinx, South Asian, South East Asian and West Asian heritage whose applications meet the essential criteria listed in the Communications and Marketing Lead Job Pack.

Please see the Job Pack for more details on the role, what we are looking for and how to apply. If you have any queries, please email us jobs@qbcentre.org.uk.

We are registered as a Disability Confident employer. Please let us know if you have any access requirements that need to be met to support you to make an application or participate in the interview process jobs@qbcentre.org.uk.

An online information evening for this role will take place on Tuesday 18 March from 6pm – 7pm.This is an opportunity to meet our team, find out more about our work and ask questions about the role. If you would like to attend, please email jobs@qbcentre.org.uk and ask us for joining details.

Apply by Friday 28 March 2025 at 9:00am GMT