Job Description
Marketing & Communications Lead
The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.
Job ID: 062965
Salary: £40,386 - £47,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Business unit: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Science Gallery London
Guy's Campus
Science Gallery London (SGL), part of King's Culture, is looking for a one-year maternity cover for the role of Marketing & Communications Lead.
King's Culture enhances the impact and engagement of King's through creative approaches and collaborations. Our specialist teams act as a connective force between the university, CCIs and communities; between different disciplines/faculties; and different types of expertise and practice, and we operate primarily through two platforms, Strand Cultural Quarter and Science Gallery London.
Science Gallery London in London Bridge is a place to grow new ideas across art, science and health. After a period of closure throughout the pandemic, King's reopened the gallery in September 2022. King's ambition is for SGL to be more than a gallery, working equitably and in partnership with the gallery's constituencies - King's student community; King's research community; 18-25s who live, work or study in Lambeth or Southwark; local community groups and organisations; artists and creative practitioners; industry partners - to explore complex challenges in an inventive, surprising, energising and useful way.
About the role
You'll be working closely as part of the SGL team. You'll be responsible for shaping SGL's voice and will lead on marketing, communications and digital platforms. You'll also collaborate with colleagues across the rest of King's Culture on shared activity, as well as King's Marketing & Communications functions.
You'll be someone who's committed to the university's vision for SGL - an inclusive, experimental, surprising place that is more than a gallery and brings people together to explore some of the questions which are shaping our lives today. SGL's programme is a wide-ranging, multi-faceted offer, created by, with and for our many constituencies.
You'll be developing and implementing communications and marketing plans for individual projects (see examples below). You'll also work closely with King's Culture's Head of Communications and Marketing, to inform a strategic comms plan for SGL for both internal and external audiences.
Over the course of twelve months, you'll shape and deliver campaigns and audience development for activity including:
- Who's Looking After Me? - a six-month exhibition and accompanying season of events (from late-Spring 2023 onwards) that explores the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, and the ways in which AI technologies are increasingly hidden in our lives, across our bodies, homes, healthcare systems and beyond.
- Member, Maker, Shaper - a programme for King's students and 18-25 year olds who live, work or study in Lambeth or Southwark. Participants take part in and shape events, exhibitions, creative workshops, community meals, roundtable discussions and apply for creative microgrants.
- Science Gallery London residencies - our current residents include: The Health and Social Equity Collective, who are working to promote equal access and experience in health and social care; The Spit Game UK, an organisation celebrating excellence and vibrancy within young Black Cultures; and a collaboration with Artangel, Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Radar Loughborough to co-produce a new artist residency, Making Time.
- 2024 annual season - our 2024 season will explore systems of ecology, risk and resilience, looking in particular at where the 'stuff' we use actually comes from, and how it might change in the future.
At King's, our definition of diversity encompasses and goes beyond the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking. King's Culture welcomes applicants from communities underrepresented in the higher education and/or cultural sector and expects all applicants to demonstrate clear commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Contact details: Siddarth Khajuria/Jen Wong, Siddarth.Khajuria@kcl.ac.uk/Jen.Wong@kcl.ac.uk
This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for one year (Maternity Cover.)
Closing date: 16 March 2023.
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