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Freelance Marketing & Communications Assistant, Turner Sims

  •  South East
  •  Under £10K
  •  Part time
  •  Closes December 8, 2025
  •  Jo Borg
  •  j.f.borg@soton.ac.uk
  • #Music

Description

Job Summary

The freelance Marketing & Communications Assistant will join the Turner Sims marketing and sales team with the aim to deliver critical foundational support to the Marketing & Communications Officer and Head of Marketing & Sales.

Job Description

Objective: To support and deliver exceptional audience-appropriate communications, working collaboratively with the Marketing & Sales team to build and nurture our community.


This has the following aims:

  • To support and monitor the day-to-day communications work of the marketing team, as advised by the Marketing & Communications Officer
  • To work within the Marketing & Sales team on building new audiences whilst nurturing existing audiences, with a focus on meaningful and long-term audience development.
  • To assist in the expansion of our marketing work by supporting the team in the reflection and evaluation of our current strategy, and creation and implementation of a new strategy


This will involve:

  • Scheduling and supporting delivery of social media content. This will include stories, reels and posts, as well as monitoring engagement and providing analysis to help guide strategy.
  • Maintaining website content, including loading and publishing events and news articles as directed by the Marketing & Communications Officer
  • Drafting email campaigns in Dotdigital for review and sign off by the Marketing & Communications Officer.
  • Managing event listings on internal and external platforms, including the University's intranet SUSSED, Visit Southampton and other relevant sites.
  • Managing and updating the venue's OneLan digital screen content
  • Preparing and distributing content for callouts, including eNewsletters and other internal and external communications.
  • Supporting the delivery of press activity. This will include sending releases, following up media opportunities, and developing a press contact database.
  • Providing general administrative support to the marketing function, including database maintenance, responding to social media enquiries and other tasks as required


This role is offered on a freelance basis for 2 days per week (standard hours are 9am-5pm) at £150/pd until the end of May 2026, with the possibility of extension after this time.

Job Requirements

Essential Experience, skills and knowledge:

  • Exemplary written communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Proven experience of content creation and planning for a variety of social media platforms
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Understanding of current best practice in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Pro-active approach, actively identifying new opportunities for amplifying our work
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with partners and stakeholders
  • Efficient, accurate administrative skills, in particular computer skills (MS Office Suite) and virtual meeting platforms (MS Teams)


Desirable skills and experience:

  • Experience working within music or live performance in a marketing, communications, front of house or sales capacity
  • Experience in arts marketing technical platforms such as DotDigital, Spektrix, Indigo or Illuminate
  • Experience managing a website, or with a working knowledge of WordPress

Job Responsibilities

The Turner Sims marketing team represents all aspects of internal and external communications, sharing our range of performances, activities and events within the university as well as beyond our campus to Southampton and the South-East.

As a small team, we work efficiently and quickly with a data-led approach. Our identified priority audiences help us to focus our efforts on high-ROI engagement opportunities, something we plan to develop in the next six months.

The ideal candidate will be confident to dive-in to social media posting, content creation for digital and print communications, and feel at ease in listing events on internal and external platforms.

The contractor should be available to work one day per week in our venue. Our standard working day is 9am-5pm, with the possibility for some flexibility.

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How to Apply

To apply for this contract, please supply:
• A cover letter explaining why you want to work as the Marketing Assistant and what motivates you to do so
• A response to the contract brief
• Your CV, including details of previous relevant work/experience
• Two examples of your writing – e.g., a press release, piece of digital communication, direct mail
• Names and contact details of two referees with knowledge of your work in a similar capacity
• Details of professional indemnity and public liability insurance

Deadline: Applications must be submitted by 9am Monday 8 December. Late applications will not be reviewed.

Please email your response with subject ‘Marketing Assistant Application’ to Jo Borg, Marketing & Communications Officer at [email protected].

Interviews for the contract will be held in the week commencing Monday 15 December in person at Turner Sims.

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