Open Call: Marketing & Communications Manager

Forma is recruiting for a permanent Marketing And Communications Manager. This role is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of Forma's marketing and communications while contributing towards how the organisation presents itself. As the organisation has grown, so too has the need for communications that bring these different strands together through a clear and compelling narrative.

Working across digital, print and live events, you'll manage our communications programme from planning campaigns and writing copy to producing newsletters, social media content, printed materials and website updates. You'll ensure our communications are timely, engaging and delivered to a consistently high standard.

Much of Forma's artistic programme is delivered in partnership with galleries, festivals and cultural organisations across the UK and internationally. As a result, this role will regularly work alongside marketing and communications colleagues within partner organisations to coordinate campaign schedules, prepare shared press and marketing materials, manage approvals and ensure campaigns are delivered cohesively across multiple organisations.

Alongside delivering communications, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to Forma's editorial voice, working with colleagues to develop richer stories about our work and helping connect individual projects to our wider mission, ensuring our communications consistently reflect who we are, why we do what we do and the impact our work has on our creative community.

This is a varied role within a small team. One day you may be shooting an interview, the next writing a press release, coordinating marketing for a residency, helping deliver an evening performance, or welcoming visitors into Presse Books. We are looking for someone who enjoys that variety and understands that great communications come from being embedded in the life of the organisation.

This role will suit you if you enjoy working in a close knit team that fosters a supportive environment towards the collective delivery of a project. One where you will be expected to work across multiple projects with varying lead times, and meet deadlines with a calm, ordered approach.

The ideal candidate will have a good balance of editorial, marketing strategy and hands-on experience in the creation of communications materials, and an appetite to learn new skills in relation to the needs of a campaign.

As a key role, the Marketing and Communications Manager would be expected to work from FormaHQ, including evenings and weekends (compensated by time in lieu when appropriate). However some flexible working can be arranged.

Download our MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Job Pack for more details and info on how to apply.

Forma strives to be an organisation that is reflective of the diverse contemporary society we serve. We are keen to hear from candidates who are currently underrepresented in the sector due to the experience of barriers linked to ethnicity, class, disability, gender and sexuality.

If you’re thinking of applying to either role and would like to better gauge if this is the right opportunity for you, we welcome requests for informal conversations in advance of the deadline. To visit FormaHQ, learn more about the organisation or discuss the role in more detail then please contact Caroline Heron, ch@forma.org.uk.

Image Credit: On set during the production of Bugarin + Castle's new film for the Scotland + Venice presentation at The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph by Jassy Earl. Image courtesy the artists, Forma and Mount Stuart.