Communications & Marketing Supervisor
Are you a communications professional with a passion for the arts? We’re on the hunt for a dynamic Communications and Promoting Manager to sign up for our team. At an enjoyable time for Poetry Ireland, we are seeking for an articulate, organised, and inventive unique with 2 to 3 years’ experience to aid us endorse, venture and develop Poetry Ireland to our users and stakeholders though also creatively engaging and establishing new audiences for our get the job done. The Communications and Promoting Supervisor will style and design and produce strategies to successfully communicate all our programmes and gatherings as nicely as becoming portion of launching our thrilling new hub for Poetry at 11 Parnell Sq. – Poetry Eire Household. Reporting to the Operations Supervisor, the Communications and Internet marketing Supervisor will work closely with the administration, publications and education staff as well as various other nationwide and intercontinental partners.
Task Title Communications and Promoting Supervisor.
Contract Whole-time, long term for three decades, matter to renewal, with a six-thirty day period probation period.
Salary: Commensurate with skills and working experience with a guideline of €42,000 euro for each annum and pension contribution.
About Poetry Eire:
Poetry Ireland is a dynamic and progressive not-for-gain organisation that aims to boost poetry as an vital cultural signifies of expression and link. Supporting poets, we provide poetry to a broader viewers and empower adults and little ones to find their voice, guaranteeing our organisation performs a crucial cultural part. Because our institution in 1978, we have championed Irish poetry at dwelling and overseas supplying assistance and chances for poets and pleasant experiences for audiences. Poetry Ireland is funded by the Arts Council, and by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
We are dedicated to our Inclusion and Diversity System, and consistently attempt to involve and interact people today and poets belonging to under-represented or marginalised areas of society.This is central to our relentless pursuit of a far more inclusive setting for emerging poets and poetry audiences in component by aiding and nurturing plan and methods in the broader arts community.
In September 2016 Poetry Eire moved into our wonderful household in Dublin’s Parnell Square. We embarked on formidable and progressive strategies with our partners, the Irish Heritage Trust, to redevelop this expansive Georgian townhouse, Poetry Eire Home, as an all-island establishment devoted to poetry in all its kinds. The newly refurbished developing will reopen in 2025 as Poetry Eire Residence which will include things like the Seamus Heaney Poetry Library along with elegant general performance, and workshop spaces. We are a key literary organisation, often serving and connecting poets and the broader general public. The rising require of all elements of culture, young and outdated, to uncover and hear their voice has meant our actions have developed significantly over the previous 10 yrs. We property these functions in three main programme components, particularly:
• Outreach And Progress Programmes: this involves initiatives these as Writers in Universities and Writers in Residence, Introductions/Céadlínte, Poet in Residence and expert enhancement initiatives and events such as Poetry Aloud and Guth na hÉigse.
• Publications: this contains the renowned Poetry Ireland Critique publication and publications such as Trumpet and anthologies.
• Reside occasions and Poetry Promotion: readings, nationwide excursions and reside shows at home and overseas. We also regulate the Eire Chair of Poetry undertaking. We benefit innovative and collaborative partnerships and delight in a extensive community and media desire in our considerable programme of functions. Our continued results is realized by the initiatives of our focused and enthusiastic employees working in a resourceful and positive functioning natural environment fostered by an knowledgeable, dynamic, and dedicated board of administrators.
Function Overview:
The Communications and Advertising and marketing Manager will guide and condition the strategic and working day-to-working day communications and internet marketing of the organisation. This position delivers the prospect the possibility to combine their conversation, internet marketing and inventive skills and competencies to connect new and current audiences with poetry and with the work of Poetry Ireland. The Communications and Advertising Supervisor will give powerful leadership and management across all communications and promoting pursuits of Poetry Ireland. They will have an eye for element and practical experience in material generation and structure. Specifically, they will be accountable for all aspects of media relations, marketing and advertising, web-site (improvement and updating) and social media. In addition, they will also be associated in general administration and offer help in the shipping and delivery of occasions. Preferably the applicant will have experience in partnership enhancement.
Communications & Internet marketing:
• Build and carry out strategic communications and promoting ideas based mostly on Poetry Irelands work program and occasions calendar to engage with and mature audiences.
• Produce and provide imaginative, effective and focused tactical cross system advertising and marketing and PR campaigns for all Poetry Eire programmes and situations, regularly doing the job with a variety of associates.
• Acquire vital interactions with media outlets and safe coverage for Poetry Eire throughout its total array of pursuits.
• Produce and indication off copy for all PR and advertising supplies (push releases, flyers, posters, e-newsletter, net, information and so forth.)
• Build and initiate a assorted vary of modern, engaging and optimized limited and extensive-variety penned and visible information for Poetry Ireland digital platforms which include Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and other platforms where by proper.
• Practical experience in establishing engaging content material making use of Canva and preferably Adobe Imaginative Cloud Software package offers.
• Direct on the writing and editing of internet marketing and fundraising e-mail, programme newsletters, weblogs, vlogs, informational toolkits, leaflets, infographics, shows etc. for the wider organisation as very well as on a section amount.
• Style and supply a suite of creative belongings for social media, newsletters, shows and the like.
• Check and sustain all Poetry Ireland electronic channels, platforms and tools responding appropriately to queries.
• Analysis and endorse creative communication procedures on engaging Poetry Ireland’s audiences and stakeholders (poetry neighborhood, formal and informal education sector, normal public and other sectors) to line manager and broader staff.
• Secure and ensure Poetry Eire model consistency throughout all in-dwelling and spouse supplies and content material.
• Put together communication stories and assets for interior and exterior stakeholders.
• Backlink in with each and every department in Poetry Ireland and the wider network of Poetry Eire stakeholders to determine prospects and create options to promote initiatives and have interaction with new and existing audiences.
• Operate with external third-party suppliers and content creators wherever suitable and as directed.
• Deal with the communications spending plan and marketing campaign budgets the place ideal.
Web page Administration:
• Oversee the progress of the new Poetry Eire site.
• Establish duplicate and oversee updating the Poetry Ireland web page routinely.
• Awareness and practical experience of web site management.
• Link in with just about every office in Poetry Eire and the broader community of Poetry Eire stakeholders to effectively boost their get the job done on the site by producing information and processes to have interaction with them.
Activities:
• Support with the organizing and shipping of Poetry Eire situations in man or woman and on the net.
• Liaise with venues and function partners supplying guidance and making certain event delivery.
• Aid offering campaigns close to Poetry Ireland activities which includes coordinating and arranging task deliverables.
The deal on give contains the adhering to gains:
• Once-a-year Depart: 25 Times for each annum with supplemental holiday seasons allotted at the discretion of the business (Great Friday and Christmas etcetera.)
• Performing Hours: Main several hours are commonly Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm. This role will need overall flexibility owing to the character of functions so it will have to have some weekends and evenings so adaptable doing work several hours are vital. Time in lieu will be provided by acceptance by manager.
• Place: At this time located at Poetry Eire, 3 Wonderful Denmark Avenue, Dublin 1, D01 NV63 with a view to relocating back to principal premises Poetry Eire Property nearby in Dublin 1 in 2025. This part will also need out of business and party operate. For out-of-business office do the job exterior of Dublin, journey and involved costs will be included exactly where acceptable. We can accommodate a modest stage of “working from home” by prior and mutual settlement.
• Income: Commensurate with techniques and expertise with a tutorial of €42,000 euro for each annum and pension contribution.
Crucial
•Third degree Qualification(s) or commensurate expertise in a pertinent space (e.g. Communications, General public Relations, Details Administration, Digital Media, Publishing, Marketing and advertising, General public Affairs or very similar).
•Minimum of 2 years’ encounter in a communication and/or advertising role.
•Minimum of 2 to 3 years’ working experience doing work in the arts, lifestyle or imaginative industries.
•Experience of doing work in a significant-effectiveness environment.
•Have fantastic venture management competencies, be inspired, energetic and success driven.
•Have powerful people management skills, a favourable mind-set and exemplary crew abilities.
Qualifications and Competencies:
• Demonstrated means to establish and put into action profitable communications and advertising tactics.
• Robust know-how of layout and electronic media with practical experience making use of a design instrument preferably Canva and / or Adobe Inventive suite.
• Exceptional digital promoting and communications expertise and knowledge across web page information management, Website positioning, E-mail customers (Mailchimp or very similar), social media and other relevant digital units and platforms.
• Inventive flair and an imaginative technique to marketing and advertising and electronic communications.
• Excellent composed techniques, with ability to craft partaking and precise information.
• Encounter with Microsoft Business suite.
• Encounter with all social media platforms and writing for social media.
• Experience with doing the job with multi stakeholders and an capacity to handle multiple priorities, negotiate priorities and provide targets in just limited timeframes when contributing to prolonged-phrase
operate.
• Remarkable notice to element.
• Ability to acquire possession, work on their possess initiative, and collaborate as aspect of a group. A enjoy of and commitment to marketing poetry for all.
Attractive:
• Video production and/ or audio generation techniques or experience.
• Expertise in partnership enhancement which include supporting fundraising initiatives and campaigns.
Software aspects:
Suitably qualified candidates are invited to implement for this interesting position by publishing a cover letter and cv outlining their related expertise to our Operations Supervisor – Barry Lennon at [email protected]
The deadline for purposes is Thursday May perhaps 23rd.
Interviews for this placement will consider spot in human being on Thursday May perhaps 30th.
