Join Our Team - Website and Content Coordinator
Purpose of Job
Our busy Communications team works across both Leeds Grand Theatre and City Varieties Music Hall and provides support to the Hyde Park Picture House team as required.
As Website and Content Coordinator, you will be responsible for managing the Leeds Heritage Theatres’ website, ensuring that the whole Company is represented and that the customer journey is comprehensive and engaging. You will curate, create and produce engaging and informative content for our blog, plus newsletters and other affiliated digital platforms. Your work will support all areas of the business, promoting our brand, reflecting our mission, vision, and values, generating income, and raising awareness of our charitable and sustainable aims.
About You
Working within a team environment and independently, you will manage and maintain the Leeds Heritage Theatres’ website, considering functionality, accessibility, appearance, content and performance in accordance with brand guidelines.
With one eye on our past and one on our future, you will use the latest tools and your love of storytelling to curate, create and produce engaging digital content for our blog. Using data analysis to support all campaigns, and working closely with other departments, you will be responsible for driving website traffic plus audience and wider community engagement and responding to customer queries.
As happy with routine as change, you will demonstrate considered reliability, outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail, even when thrown a curveball! You must be willing to adapt and flex to meet the needs of the business, support the team, and approach every task with energy, enthusiasm and care. A love of theatre and the arts is beneficial but not mandatory.
For full details of the role, please see the job description.
*Leeds Heritage Theatres is committed to promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Therefore, all appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and relevant roles will need to complete an enhanced DBS check.
About Us
Leeds Heritage Theatres is a registered charity united by a single cause; to bring people together, create the extraordinary and provide a positive environment in which to entertain and educate.
Our three venues – Leeds Grand Theatre, City Varieties Music Hall and the Hyde Park Picture House – collectively present the very best in live performance, music, comedy and film; drawing audiences of around 350,000 a year from the Leeds city region and beyond.
We’re proud of who we are and what we do. With our combined, unique skills, we make a real difference. We inspire one another. We become stronger. Everyone is welcome to share in this labour of love.
Salary and Benefits
Permanent Contract
Responsible to: Communications Manager
Salary: £25,318
Holiday Entitlement: 20 days pa plus bank holidays
Benefits
- Generous average salary pension scheme, plus health and sickness benefits
- Regular staff offers and discounts for our own venues and local businesses
- Free to use Employee Assistance Programme that supports your health and wellbeing
- Personnel investment and training
- Flexible/hybrid working*
Probation Period: Six months
Notice Period : One month
Hours: 37 hours per week Mon-Fri (occasional evening and weekend working).
*We encourage flexible, hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week in the office plus availability for all press shows.
To apply
Please send a CV and cover letter (max 800 words) to humanresources@leedsheritagetheatres.com with the title of the role you are applying for as the email subject. Please direct any questions to this email address.
We also require you to complete and attach with your application a Disclosure Declaration Form which can be downloaded by clicking on this link. Failure to do so may result in your application not being considered.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Fri 29 September 2023 at 12pm (midday). Successful shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview in mid-October (date TBC). The role will start in early January 2024.
Website and Content Coordinator Job Description
Our organisation is actively seeking applications from people from the global majority and those with a disability.
We are committed to promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Therefore, all appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and relevant roles will need to complete an enhanced DBS check.