Digital Assistant, Latitude Festival

Festival Republic team

Description

Job Summary:
Company: Festival Republic
Department: Marketing
Location: Farringdon, London and onsite during festival season
Reports to: Talent Buyer
Contract details: Full time, fixed term contract. Expected duration, 6 months. 40 hours Mon – Fri aside from at festivals and events where evening and weekend work is required.
Role Description
Latitude is a major music, comedy and arts festival taking place every July in Henham Park, Suffolk. Latitude is run by Festival Republic, the country’s leading festival and events promoter. We are looking for a smart, thoughtful and thorough person to work with our marketing team and report to the event Talent Buyer for the 2023 festival season.
The successful applicant will be sourcing, creating and editing written and video content with the aim of growing and engaging the Latitude audience on digital platforms and social channels. This job could suit someone looking to embark on a career in digital or someone with some experience.
What The Role Includes
  • Source, create and edit written content
  • Source, manage and distribute image and video content
  • Reach Latitude’s audience past, present and future across digital platforms and social channels
  • Engage our festival community online though community management
  • Liaise confidently with internal stakeholders and artist representatives
  • Analyse and report on our digital channels in weekly reports
  • Be part of the creative process; helping invent and execute innovative digital campaigns
  • Assist with coordinating onsite film crew requirements and photography briefings
  • Support the business with new digital initiatives
  • Assist in forecasting and updating campaign budgets

Requirements

Who You Are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
  • Proven ability to produce copy in excellent written English
  • Confident when making decisions
  • Thrives when multitasking across a range of projects concurrently
  • Comfortable using website CMSs, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google G-Suite
  • Commercial use of social media would be advantageous
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
  • Obsessively thorough
  • Passionate about music, comedy and the arts
  • Happy to work onsite at festivals where typical working hours include weekends and evenings

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Festival Republic

More than half a million fans attend the festivals we own and co-produce each year. They do so because they share our passion for festivals. Festivals are in our blood and we are proud to provide the heartbeat of the summer. Festival Republic is the UK’s leading festival and event promoter, and is extremely proud to be the team behind festivals including the greatest live show on the planet, Reading & Leeds Festivals; Latitude, the critically acclaimed multi-arts festival; and overseas events Electric Picnic, Berlin Festival and Lollapalooza Berlin. Formed in 1982 under the name Mean Fiddler, the company largely created the modern music festival market in the UK, taking shared ownership of Reading Festival in 1989 and producing numerous other events including the Fleadh and Phoenix festivals, Creamfields and Homelands. From 2001 until June 2012 Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic, also held the licence and operational control of Glastonbury Festival. In 2007 the Mean Fiddler name and venues were sold, with the full festival portfolio remaining under the new name of Festival Republic. Since then the company has gone from strength to strength, producing an impressive portfolio of live events in the UK and overseas, and opening an office in Dublin in 2013.

Job Details

Posted on Feb 10

London, England, UK

Full time

Junior