Marketing and Audience Development Manager

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 dynamic 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: https://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 assuranceHealth 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! 

As part of your application, please submit a covering letter outlining the following:

If you are applying to job share If you are applying to share with a specific other person - and if so, whoIf you are happy to job share with someone other than that personWhat FTE you are interested in

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 14-16 April is Yasmeen Soudani y.soudani@leeds.ac.uk 

Interviews will be held on 14 and 15 May 2025

Closing Date: 22 Apr 2025

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £39,355 to £46,735 p.a.