Job Opportunity: Communications Producer
D6: Culture in Transit is seeking an energetic and values driven professional to join our team in an exciting new role as Communications Producer.
If you have a passion for the visual arts and culture, are driven by collaboration across international and intercultural platforms and opportunities to build community connecting diverse audiences, we welcome your application for this role.
Contract: Fixed term until February 2025
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (equivalent to 3 days per week)
Salary: £25.5k pro rata (£15,300 per annum)
Annual Leave: 25 days pro rata (15 days per annum), plus a pro-rata share of public holidays
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) - Work will be based at D6’s office in the centre of the city. Candidates should be based in the North East, with some flexibility for home working when required.
Closing date: Monday 25th October (5pm, BST)
Short-list confirmed: Thursday 28th October
Proposed interview date: Thursday 4th November
ABOUT THE ROLE
D6: Culture in Transit is seeking an energetic and values driven professional to join our team in an exciting new role as Communications Producer. This role will support our mission to produce collaborative projects that challenge polarising cultural narratives, produce exceptional art, and contribute to social resilience and environmental consciousness. In line with our core values:
Equity: Fairness in engagement
Commitment: To our people and our planet
Curiosity: Open, innovative and interested
Generosity: Compassionate, collaborative and welcoming
The Communications Producer will lead on all areas of communications and marketing, working on the design and delivery of campaigns in response to global issues that drive our work through to impactful story-telling about our programmes with our target audience groups. They will have the ability to build and sustain relationships through an evolving network, coordinating shared communications with partners and sensitive responses to issues and themes of relevance.
The Communications Producer will support D6 in its development to build a strong, engaging and informed voice within and for the sector.
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for an energetic and values driven individual to join our small staff team with the ability to build community around a diverse network of artists, audiences and collaborators across a regional, national and international landscape. You will be centrally tasked in developing a strong, engaging and informed voice for D6’s practice, developing a new website and invigorating our social media platforms with rich and engaging content in response to our programme and wider cultural practice, policy and global responsibilities. You will develop and build community, coalescing ideas and platforms through thinking about the following creatively:
Shared GLOBAL responsibilities: Environmental emergency (green agenda) and social injustice (migration, ethnic diversity, gender equality)
Interesting initiatives addressing these responsibilities innovatively (internationally, nationally, locally)
How the arts are addressing these responsibilities innovatively (internationally, nationally, locally)
How D6 is addressing these responsibilities innovatively
You will develop a Communications Strategy and Schedule directly relating to D6’s Business Plan.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALITIES
You will be someone with excellent attention to detail and written skills. You will be able to cross-reference and communicate complex ideas with and for a wide range of people with confidence and sensitivity, and be able to select and use visual material appropriately to support these communications.
You must be an independent and highly organised professional, with the ability to work often within tight and challenging time constraints and flexibility to work outside of normal office hours when required. You have the ability to work well within a small team of colleagues who collectively develop and deliver ambitious international and intercultural facing programmes, but act as a main point of contact for areas of work around communications and marketing.
You must also bring experience, skills and knowledge of working across websites and social media platforms and of following relevant accessibility guidelines and regulations. The use of plain English is essential in consideration of D6’s international and mutli-linguial audience base.
You will have demonstrable interest in the visual arts, with a proven understanding of the value of culture in society, intersectional issues and international working.
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND QUALITIES
You will enjoy working face to face with artists, participants and the general public within your role.
Beyond the arts, your interests may extend more widely to social sciences and politics. You will seek opportunities where D6 may be able to offer perspectives and/or thought-leadership. You will also have confidence in the development of a press and media portfolio for D6’s work.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop and Manage D6’s Communications Frameworks and Tools:
Create and Share Engaging Communications Content:
Beyond programme marketing, our communications should be responsive to the global responsibilities of social injustice and environmental emergency that underpin our work. This will include:
Supervisory / People-based Responsibilities:
ABOUT D6: CULTURE IN TRANSIT
We are D6: Culture in Transit, visual arts producers with a rooted local presence and established international reach. Our work is co-produced with artists and focused on societal issues that concern and connect us. Through artistic exchange and commissions, we draw threads between communities of difference and explore international common ground with partners across continents.
We work internationally from the UK and Cyprus, with the UK team operating from our base in the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
New ideas, understanding and exchange, lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care, and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives. Our base is in the North East, but we are not restricted by geography or venue, and we have the agility to take our work to where our audiences are. Our audiences are multiple and include: visual artists (regional, national and international); participants (individuals, volunteers and those involved in artist-led activities); cultural and heritage partners; the public, refugees, and wider voluntary sectors; and academia.
In 2020, we opened D6:EU to develop our European portfolio beyond Brexit. As a small NGO, we develop new opportunities for artists and cultural collaborations in Cyprus, Europe, and the Middle East. Here we focus on international capacity building with cultural programmes that collaborate with artists, cultural producers, heritage professionals and policy makers to consider the role of culture in the sustainable life and development of our cities and neighbourhoods.
WHY JOIN US?
As an employer we are committed to fairness, equality, and equity, and have a human centred approach which values, respects, listens, and treats with dignity and compassion all staff, participants, volunteers, and practitioners. We also place great emphasis on creating an open, inclusive, non-hierarchical working environment for staff, artists and volunteers. We can offer flexible working arrangements, and support ongoing professional development of all staff.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply please submit a CV and 2 page covering letter outlining your experience and what you will bring to the role. Please send applications to [email protected]
A shortlist of no more than 3 candidates will be selected to prepare a short powerpoint presentation outlining their analysis of D6 communications across our websites and social media platforms and ideas around their approach. Each will be paid a fee of £150. Following this, a final selection will be made.
Deadline: Monday 25th October (5pm, BST)
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, or to discuss any access requirements that would enable you to apply for this position, please contact: Matt Denham, [email protected]
www.d6.eu
F: @D6cultureintransit T: @D6culture I: @d6culture L: www.linkedin.com/company/d6culture
If you have a passion for the visual arts and culture, are driven by collaboration across international and intercultural platforms and opportunities to build community connecting diverse audiences, we welcome your application for this role.
Contract: Fixed term until February 2025
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (equivalent to 3 days per week)
Salary: £25.5k pro rata (£15,300 per annum)
Annual Leave: 25 days pro rata (15 days per annum), plus a pro-rata share of public holidays
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) - Work will be based at D6’s office in the centre of the city. Candidates should be based in the North East, with some flexibility for home working when required.
Closing date: Monday 25th October (5pm, BST)
Short-list confirmed: Thursday 28th October
Proposed interview date: Thursday 4th November
ABOUT THE ROLE
D6: Culture in Transit is seeking an energetic and values driven professional to join our team in an exciting new role as Communications Producer. This role will support our mission to produce collaborative projects that challenge polarising cultural narratives, produce exceptional art, and contribute to social resilience and environmental consciousness. In line with our core values:
Equity: Fairness in engagement
Commitment: To our people and our planet
Curiosity: Open, innovative and interested
Generosity: Compassionate, collaborative and welcoming
The Communications Producer will lead on all areas of communications and marketing, working on the design and delivery of campaigns in response to global issues that drive our work through to impactful story-telling about our programmes with our target audience groups. They will have the ability to build and sustain relationships through an evolving network, coordinating shared communications with partners and sensitive responses to issues and themes of relevance.
The Communications Producer will support D6 in its development to build a strong, engaging and informed voice within and for the sector.
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for an energetic and values driven individual to join our small staff team with the ability to build community around a diverse network of artists, audiences and collaborators across a regional, national and international landscape. You will be centrally tasked in developing a strong, engaging and informed voice for D6’s practice, developing a new website and invigorating our social media platforms with rich and engaging content in response to our programme and wider cultural practice, policy and global responsibilities. You will develop and build community, coalescing ideas and platforms through thinking about the following creatively:
Shared GLOBAL responsibilities: Environmental emergency (green agenda) and social injustice (migration, ethnic diversity, gender equality)
Interesting initiatives addressing these responsibilities innovatively (internationally, nationally, locally)
How the arts are addressing these responsibilities innovatively (internationally, nationally, locally)
How D6 is addressing these responsibilities innovatively
You will develop a Communications Strategy and Schedule directly relating to D6’s Business Plan.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALITIES
You will be someone with excellent attention to detail and written skills. You will be able to cross-reference and communicate complex ideas with and for a wide range of people with confidence and sensitivity, and be able to select and use visual material appropriately to support these communications.
You must be an independent and highly organised professional, with the ability to work often within tight and challenging time constraints and flexibility to work outside of normal office hours when required. You have the ability to work well within a small team of colleagues who collectively develop and deliver ambitious international and intercultural facing programmes, but act as a main point of contact for areas of work around communications and marketing.
You must also bring experience, skills and knowledge of working across websites and social media platforms and of following relevant accessibility guidelines and regulations. The use of plain English is essential in consideration of D6’s international and mutli-linguial audience base.
You will have demonstrable interest in the visual arts, with a proven understanding of the value of culture in society, intersectional issues and international working.
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND QUALITIES
You will enjoy working face to face with artists, participants and the general public within your role.
Beyond the arts, your interests may extend more widely to social sciences and politics. You will seek opportunities where D6 may be able to offer perspectives and/or thought-leadership. You will also have confidence in the development of a press and media portfolio for D6’s work.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop and Manage D6’s Communications Frameworks and Tools:
- Generate a communications strategy aligned with our Business Plan;
- Translate the communications strategy into a communications schedule around our organisation and programmes of work;
- Implement standards for visual identity;
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of guidelines and best practice for accessibility across platforms;
- Update and expand our Press and Contacts List;
- Work with the D6 team to support the development of our new website;
- Collate audience data and information;
Create and Share Engaging Communications Content:
Beyond programme marketing, our communications should be responsive to the global responsibilities of social injustice and environmental emergency that underpin our work. This will include:
- Producing well-researched written content across platforms and audiences;
- Devising new strategies to communicate our programme;
- Communicating with a level, considered and genuine voice;
- Creating spaces for sensitive conversation online;
- Maintaining and programming communications across D6’s website and social media platforms;
- Communicating content directly to D6’s partners, stakeholders and press contacts.
Supervisory / People-based Responsibilities:
- Act as the main point of contact for external communications;
- Build community and audiences with artists, partners and other networks;
- Supervise D6’s Social Media Coordinator placement(s).
ABOUT D6: CULTURE IN TRANSIT
We are D6: Culture in Transit, visual arts producers with a rooted local presence and established international reach. Our work is co-produced with artists and focused on societal issues that concern and connect us. Through artistic exchange and commissions, we draw threads between communities of difference and explore international common ground with partners across continents.
We work internationally from the UK and Cyprus, with the UK team operating from our base in the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
New ideas, understanding and exchange, lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care, and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives. Our base is in the North East, but we are not restricted by geography or venue, and we have the agility to take our work to where our audiences are. Our audiences are multiple and include: visual artists (regional, national and international); participants (individuals, volunteers and those involved in artist-led activities); cultural and heritage partners; the public, refugees, and wider voluntary sectors; and academia.
In 2020, we opened D6:EU to develop our European portfolio beyond Brexit. As a small NGO, we develop new opportunities for artists and cultural collaborations in Cyprus, Europe, and the Middle East. Here we focus on international capacity building with cultural programmes that collaborate with artists, cultural producers, heritage professionals and policy makers to consider the role of culture in the sustainable life and development of our cities and neighbourhoods.
WHY JOIN US?
As an employer we are committed to fairness, equality, and equity, and have a human centred approach which values, respects, listens, and treats with dignity and compassion all staff, participants, volunteers, and practitioners. We also place great emphasis on creating an open, inclusive, non-hierarchical working environment for staff, artists and volunteers. We can offer flexible working arrangements, and support ongoing professional development of all staff.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply please submit a CV and 2 page covering letter outlining your experience and what you will bring to the role. Please send applications to [email protected]
A shortlist of no more than 3 candidates will be selected to prepare a short powerpoint presentation outlining their analysis of D6 communications across our websites and social media platforms and ideas around their approach. Each will be paid a fee of £150. Following this, a final selection will be made.
Deadline: Monday 25th October (5pm, BST)
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, or to discuss any access requirements that would enable you to apply for this position, please contact: Matt Denham, [email protected]
www.d6.eu
F: @D6cultureintransit T: @D6culture I: @d6culture L: www.linkedin.com/company/d6culture