Work description
Science Gallery London (SGL), element of King’s Tradition, is searching for a a single-year maternity include for the function of Advertising and marketing & Communications Guide.
King’s Society boosts the effects and engagement of King’s by means of imaginative approaches and collaborations. Our specialist groups act as a connective power between the university, CCIs and communities amongst different disciplines/faculties and unique styles of experience and exercise, and we run generally by two platforms, Strand Cultural Quarter and Science Gallery London.
Science Gallery London in London Bridge is a spot to improve new ideas across art, science and well being. Soon after a interval of closure through the pandemic, King’s reopened the gallery in September 2022. King’s ambition is for SGL to be much more than a gallery, working equitably and in partnership with the gallery’s constituencies – King’s pupil neighborhood King’s investigation community 18-25s who reside, work or analyze in Lambeth or Southwark nearby community teams and organisations artists and inventive practitioners industry associates – to investigate elaborate difficulties in an inventive, shocking, energising and beneficial way.
About the role
You are going to be operating intently as aspect of the SGL workforce. You will be accountable for shaping SGL’s voice and will lead on advertising and marketing, communications and digital platforms. You’ll also collaborate with colleagues throughout the relaxation of King’s Lifestyle on shared action, as properly as King’s Promoting & Communications functions.
You are going to be someone who’s committed to the university’s eyesight for SGL – an inclusive, experimental, shocking position that is additional than a gallery and provides people today collectively to take a look at some of the thoughts which are shaping our life today. SGL’s programme is a huge-ranging, multi-faceted offer, created by, with and for our several constituencies.
You will be creating and utilizing communications and advertising and marketing ideas for personal initiatives (see illustrations under). You’ll also work carefully with King’s Culture’s Head of Communications and Advertising, to tell a strategic comms system for SGL for both of those interior and exterior audiences.
More than the system of twelve months, you are going to condition and deliver strategies and audience progress for activity which include:
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- Who’s Looking Immediately after Me? – a six-thirty day period exhibition and accompanying time of gatherings (from late-Spring 2023 onwards) that explores the social and moral implications of artificial intelligence, and the strategies in which AI systems are increasingly concealed in our life, throughout our bodies, properties, health care programs and beyond.
- Member, Maker, Shaper – a programme for King’s pupils and 18-25 12 months olds who stay, work or study in Lambeth or Southwark. Contributors consider component in and form functions, exhibitions, innovative workshops, group foods, roundtable discussions and use for resourceful microgrants.
- Science Gallery London residencies – our recent people include: The Health and fitness and Social Fairness Collective, who are functioning to endorse equivalent entry and working experience in wellness and social care The Spit Recreation British isles, an organisation celebrating excellence and vibrancy in just young Black Cultures and a collaboration with Artangel, Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Radar Loughborough to co-make a new artist residency, Building Time.
- 2024 yearly year – our 2024 period will examine methods of ecology, hazard and resilience, searching in certain at wherever the ‘stuff’ we use essentially comes from, and how it could possibly change in the potential.




At King’s, our definition of variety encompasses and goes beyond the properties secured by the Equality Act 2010 to include anything that would make us distinctive, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and approaches of thinking. King’s Culture welcomes candidates from communities underrepresented in the higher schooling and/or cultural sector and expects all applicants to display crystal clear determination to range and inclusion.
This submit will be offered on a comprehensive-time, mounted expression deal for one year (Maternity Cover.)
Crucial obligations
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- Develop, individual and apply communications, advertising and marketing and audience progress plans for SGL as a cultural venue – and for specific assignments. During this interval, this will consist of e.g.

– reviewing and applying a system to refresh SGL’s digital platforms
– establishing and protecting relationships with media retailers (regional push, countrywide science and arts sections, bloggers), to travel protection of SGL programming
– overseeing collection and working day to working day administration of businesses and other contractors appointed to build and produce built-in PR and media campaigns
– ensuring that all material – print & digital – reflects the eyesight, model and tone of voice of both of those King’s and SGL
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- Manage the SGL promoting and communications budgets
- Operate closely with the Director, Head of Programming and Head of Creation on evaluation and reporting close to SGL activity
- Develop and sustain effective performing relationships with exterior stakeholders, together with community connections (e.g. Crew London Bridge, other museums and venues in the area, Southwark Arts teams, Borough Industry, London Bridge Quarter), to leverage prospects for exterior cross-advertising and collaboration
- Develop and preserve successful functioning interactions with critical King’s communications and internet marketing stakeholders, which includes across King’s Lifestyle, Advertising and marketing, Corporate Communications, alumni, faculty and university student-going through communications teams to help the successful marketing of SGL and to endorse chances for team, learners and alumni to engage
- Get the job done intently with the Director (SGL) and King’s Culture’s Head of Promoting and Communications [A1] to develop and apply an interior engagement and comms system throughout King’s. As portion of this, working with colleagues to maximise recognition throughout King’s of the prospects for staff and learners at SGL, ensuring that possibilities to interact with the gallery are transparent and evidently understood
- Perform with the Head of Promoting and Communications and colleagues in King’s Tradition and throughout the broader college to lead to supporting communications and advertising and marketing campaigns joined to exercise from throughout King’s






The higher than list of responsibilities might not be exhaustive, and the submit holder will be necessary to undertake these responsibilities and duties as may possibly moderately be anticipated within just the scope and grading of the submit.
Abilities, information, and encounter
Crucial criteria
1. Encounter as a senior marketing and advertising, comms and electronic practitioner in the arts, cultural or study sectors, with a established observe report of devising and delivering prosperous marketing and advertising and communications tactics
2. Complete information of a wide vary of internet marketing and communications things to do (media, internet sites, functions, advertising, social media, publications), which includes superior information and knowledge of the strategies and realistic concerns in developing and utilizing communications ideas for diverse audiences.
3. Know-how in relevant electronic complex capabilities (CMS, web sites, content material development)
4. A enthusiasm for storytelling and practical experience in tailoring material to distinct audiences and platforms
5. A strong network of appropriate push and media contacts
6. Excellent conversation competencies (prepared/verbal/listening) with a confirmed capacity to adapt fashion for a selection of channels and audiences
7. Interest in and practical experience of working with digital platforms for cultural engagement
8. Excellent job administration and organisation competencies, and equipped to physical exercise initiative and strategy do the job independently
9. Means to successfully and properly manage numerous and competing priorities in a diversified portfolio of current tasks
10. A demonstrable motivation to equality, variety, inclusion and obtain
11. A passion for science, the arts and meaningful general public engagement with them
