Marketing Assistant

About Us

The Barbican is an international arts, conference and learning organisation in the heart of the City of London.

Across its theatres, concert halls, cinemas, galleries, business venues, public and community spaces, the Barbican showcases the most exciting artists and performers from around the world, pushing traditional artistic boundaries and helping us understand our lives in new and unexpected ways. Each year, the Centre presents hundreds of different performances, events and exhibitions that entertain and inspire millions of people, create connections, provoke debate, and reflect the world we live in.

Firmly rooted in its neighbourhood, the Barbican collaborates on projects with local communities and supports young people and emerging talent to develop their artistic practice and access jobs in the creative industry.

About the role

Our Marketing team brings the Barbican's iconic brand to life with engaging campaigns that connect audiences with our vision of arts without boundaries. We're responsible for developing and engaging audiences, for generating revenue, and for building the Barbican's reputation nationally and internationally. We achieve this through a mix of audience insight, brand development, customer relationship management, digital innovation and bold, intelligent campaign activity.

We are looking for two enthusiastic and talented assistants to join our busy team. Candidates will have a passion for arts and culture and some experience working in any of the following cultural sectors:

• Museums & galleries
• Cinema
• Destinations & attractions

The key responsibilities of our Marketing Assistants are to:

• To provide assistance to our marketing managers, implementing audience-facing marketing campaigns.
• To support marketing initiatives that cross our art forms (Music, Theatre & Dance, Cinema, Art & Design) and support Creative Learning, Audience Development and Membership as appropriate.

Barbican Benefits

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, including flexible working, annual pay progression and an annual pay review, a generous pension scheme, season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes, free access to museums and galleries, discounts on retail, healthcare and on-site cafes and restaurants. You will have access to Employee Assistance Programme, trained Mental Health First aiders and City of London employee networks.