Marketing & Outreach Assistant

Salary: £24k p/a pro rata (£12k actual)

The Castle Cinema a seeking a Marketing & Outreach Assistant to join their team.

About the venue

The Castle Cinema is an independent community cinema in Hackney, and the reincarnation of one of London’s earliest cinemas! Built in 1913 as The Castle Electric Theatre, the original cinema closed in 1958 but re-opened in 2017 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Since then we’ve built strong ties to the community, working hard to ensure we’re serving everyone’s needs.

With two beautiful screens and a stunning bar, we’re passionate about great films, delicious refreshments and genuine service, and want a trip to The Castle to be remarkable for all three.

We’re proud to have built a great team and organisational culture based on the following values:

Honest and generous; Friendly and informal; Diverse and inclusive.

We endeavour to reach a broad range of audiences, and we’ve developed five Community Goals:

• Improve access for disabled guests
• Develop underserved audiences
• Support and enhance education locally
• Nurture a diverse team
• Maintain an inclusive and thought-provoking programme for all

We particularly welcome and encourage candidates who reflect the demographics and lived experience of the local community, and those that are underrepresented in the arts. This includes people of African, Caribbean, South Asian, South East Asian, and Middle Eastern heritage, marginalised cultures and ethnicities, LGBTQ+ folk and those who are neurodiverse or disabled. We recognise that a diverse workforce benefits both our organisation and the community it serves. However, we don’t assume our staff represent anyone but themselves at work.

Summary

Our Marketing & Outreach Assistant will play a vital role in ensuring that we continue to deliver an outstanding customer experience, develop and diversify audiences, are digitally innovative and data-driven, and achieve organisational and audience objectives across all areas including cinema, food and beverage, private hires, memberships, gift vouchers and merchandise.

They’ll take a key role in both community and press outreach: developing local relationships in areas such as our accessible screenings, and raising The Castle’s local, regional and national profile. They’ll be working some evenings and weekends – generating content (videos, photos etc) and engaging with the community.

To apply

Please read the full job description here:

• Marketing & Outreach Assistant job description

Please send a CV and cover letter (750 words max) explaining how you meet the essential requirements and some of the desirable skills to: jobs@thecastlecinema.com and include “Marketing & Outreach Assistant” in the subject line. Links to previous work or examples of your writing would also be welcomed.

We’d be grateful if you could complete our Diversity & Inclusion monitoring form here.

It’s anonymous, but enables us to track how effectively we’re reaching different candidates

The closing date for this position is 22/08/2021 at 23:59