Marketing and Audience Development Manager

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Working time: 100%

Contract type: Fixed term (until 31^st December 2027 because additional resource is needed to cover peak demand)

Interview date: Wednesday 14^th May 2025

The University of Leeds has an established, exciting and diverse cultural offer including theatre, music, galleries, libraries, archives, public art and poetry.

In 2024 we published our Cultural Engagement Strategy which underpins our commitment to growing, diversifying and cohering our cultural offer to wider audiences as an important element of our civic role, through a new one stop web portal and new central ticketing system.

We are looking for a Marketing and Audience Development Manager with a background in marketing within the cultural sector to support a step change in our approach to programming and promoting cultural activity. Working collaboratively with our cultural producers, you will help us to develop a coherent, audience-focused programme that reflects our unique offer.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: ://www.gov.uk/global-talent.

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Erica Ramsay

Email: e.ramsay@leeds.ac.uk

The contact for prospective applicants from 14-18 April is Yasmeen Soudani y.soudani@leeds.ac.uk

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