Marketing Officer Self-employed Four to five days per week £18,000 - £23,000 annual fee To start September 2021

SUMMARY

Jermyn Street Theatre and Guildford Shakespeare Company are looking for a new Marketing Officer.

The role is ideal for a bright, hard-working person with ambitions to work in arts marketing or administration/ producing. We are open to applications from recent graduates if they have demonstrated significant interest in marketing. There is ample opportunity for the right person to take on more responsibility over time. We also welcome applications from more experienced arts marketers.

The position is around two-thirds for Jermyn Street Theatre

and one-third for Guildford Shakespeare Company. You will 2020. be primarily based at Jermyn Street Theatre (West End), with home-working as appropriate. 15 Heroines, We are open to candidates with varying levels of graphic design skills; those with more basic graphic design skills would be

hired on a slightly more part-time basis. Olivia Williams in Photo by Marc Brenner , 2019. Photo by Matt Pereira All’s Well That Ends Well Well All’s Hannah Morrish and Gavin Fowler in Hannah Morrish and Gavin Fowler

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Artistic Directors of each company, the Marketing Officer will work across the full range of our marketing and communications.

• Managing and maintaining a consistent presence across our For candidates with advanced design skills: social media channels. • Creating verbal and visual content (such as new idents and • Additional responsibility for brochure, poster, programme, and adapting existing artwork) for online distribution. image designs. • Helping to write, edit and proofread marketing copy for • Creating and editing video trailers and audio content. brochures, posters, website etc. • Booking rehearsal and production photographers and dealing Our core staff teams are small, friendly, and cooperative, and all core with photo distribution. staff members support each other’s work. • Ensuring that our branding is consistently used. • Inputting and managing sales data and keeping all marketing There is room to make this position your own and, at both companies, assets in an organised and accessible way. we encourage all our staff to show initiative and push the projects they • Following up with audiences to grow a loyal base, targeting are passionate about. While there are many templates and working specialist groups relevant to each production, arranging PS patterns, there is the opportunity to shape the position according to swaps with other institutions. your own interests, talents, beliefs and values. • Gathering, formatting and proofreading biographies and editorial content for programmes and playtexts; liaising with printers and publishers; designing in-house programmes at Jermyn Street Theatre. WORK SPACE, TIMES, PERSON STAFFING SPECIFICATION You would be based in Jermyn Street Theatre (closest tube: Piccadilly Circus) with some elements of home-working as appropriate. There is no one ideal background for this role, which needs an ambitious all-rounder. You might be a recent graduate from an arts or Your hours for Guildford Shakespeare Company would fall across the media background, an early-career theatre professional, or someone week and would be undertaken from home, with visits to Guildford (40 switching careers or returning to work. minutes from Waterloo) as necessary. You will work with our in-house team and with our coproducers, which We often have interns from universities in the UK or US who can be requires you to be adaptable, discreet, and extremely diplomatic. You’ll useful in supporting our core staff and whom you might be involved in be an optimist, but also a pragmatist who recognises when time and , 2019 managing. budgets mean that even the best ideas must wait their turn.

You’ll be calm and good-humoured under pressure, a quick worker, a perfectionist who knows that things go wrong sometimes, and an The Ice Cream Boys initiative-taker willing to ask for advice. You will enjoy an idiosyncratic, supportive, non-corporate working environment. You will be excited to join a small, hard-working team overachieving to make magic. Andrew Francis in Photo by Robert Workman Essential:

• Outstanding, clear written English (including strong proofreading skills) and a great telephone and interpersonal manner. • Basic graphic design skills, preferably including InDesign and Photoshop, and the ability to pick up new skills quickly. • A love for theatre and plays, and for the people who make them happen. • A passion for arts marketing and an interest in using print, the internet, and social media to promote theatre. • Excellent organisational skills including project, time, and budget management.

Desirable:

• Advanced graphic design skills to generate content and imagery (for example: job packs like this one!) • Video/film editing skills. • Appreciation of branding and brand awareness. • Experience in managing, scripting and developing video trailers , 2018. Photo by Mark Dean. and audio content. • Photography skills. • Experience of Mailchimp and internet advertising. • Knowledge of the theatre sector. Love’s Labours Lost Love’s • Demonstrable experience in building audiences. , 2020. Beckett Triple Bill Triple Beckett Niall Buggy in Photo by Robert Workman Paula James and Robert Maskell in EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES TO APPLY

Jermyn Street Theatre and Guildford Shakespeare Company are • A covering letter of no more than two pages of A4, paying committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from due attention to the person specification above. Please be individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender as specific as you can about your skills and experience. reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, • If you have graphic design and video editing experience, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. please include some samples of your past work. • A CV of no more than one page of A4. We strongly encourage applications from people with backgrounds • A completed Equal Opportunities form downloadable from currently under-represented in our organisation, including people with www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/vacancies/ disabilities, LGBTQ+, working class, Black, Asian and other ethnically diverse people. Please send these by email to David Doyle on [email protected] All candidates declaring a disability who meet the Essential criteria will be offered an interview. If you wish to disclose your disability (there is no need to specify its nature), please do so in your covering letter. DEADLINE

HANDOVER PERIOD Thursday 22 July at 6pm. Any applications arriving after this will not be considered. AND TRAINING

There would be a handover period in September, and thereafter you INTERVIEWS would be managed and mentored by Tom Littler, Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre and Matt Pinches, co-Artistic Director at Guildford Shakespeare Company. Interviews will be held in person in London on Thursday 29 July.

It is important to emphasise that the right candidate need not be – and We will do our best to reply to all applicants, but it may take us will not be – the finished article. We expect you to learn and develop some time. during your time with us, and we will support you to do so.

CONTRACT AND FEES

Your contract will be held by Jermyn Street Theatre. Like all the other staff at Jermyn Street Theatre, you will be engaged on a freelance self-employed basis. You will invoice monthly.

We are open to joint applications.

Up to 28 days holiday a year are granted (pro-rata), inclusive of , 2021. eight public holidays. Holidays are pre-arranged with the Artistic Directors of the companies. Two Horsemen Two Daon Broni in Photo by Steve Gregson OVER THE YEARS

During the 1930s, the basement of 16b Jermyn Street was home 1930s to the glamorous Monseigneur Restaurant and Club. The staff changing rooms were transformed into a theatre by Come Howard Jameson and Penny Horner (who continue to serve as early 1990s Chair of the Board and Executive Director today) in the early 1990s and Jermyn Street Theatre staged its first production in 1994 August 1994. on in... Neil Marcus became the first Artistic Director in 1995 and secured Lottery funding for the venue; producer Chris Grady also 1995 made a major contribution to the theatre’s development. “ I hope many In 1995, HRH Princess Michael of Kent became the theatre’s others will Patron and David Babani, subsequently the Artistic Director late 1990s of the , took over as Artistic Director have the until 2001. Later Artistic Directors included Gene David Kirk and opportunity to Anthony Biggs. work in such 2012 The theatre won the Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of the Year. an important Tom Littler restructured the theatre to become a full-time theatre – it’s 2017 producing house. an incredible We became the only theatre to win the Stage Award for Fringe 2021 Theatre of the Year for a second time. place.” The Rosalie Craig

WHO WE “ Unerringly , 2018. Photo by Robert Workman.

directed ... no Stitchers ARE one in this tiny theatre dared Jermyn Street Theatre is the transferred to the West End Rattigan, Lillian Hellman, West End’s smallest producing and Broadway. , Stephen breathe. theatre. Led by Artistic and Sondheim, Tenessee Williams The Observer” and Andrew Dennis in Victoria Yeates , 2020. Photo by Robert Workman; Executive Directors Tom We’ve premiered plays by and Noel Coward. Emerging Littler and Penny Horner, Howard Brenton, Lorna French, talents mingle with the likes of the programme includes Alice Allemano, Steven Berkoff, , Sinead Cusack, Beckett Triple Bill Triple Beckett outstanding new plays, rare Timberlake Wertenbaker, Olivia Williams, Patsy Ferran, revivals, new versions of Juliet Gilkes Romero, Esther Nadine Marshall, Tuppence

European classics, and high- Freud, Gail Louw, Chinonyerem Middleton, David Threlfall, in Jermyn Street Theatre, 2020. Photo by Marc Brenner. quality musicals, alongside Odimba, Bryony Lavery, Sarah Lisa Dwan, Alan Cox, Doña

one-off musical and literary Daniels, and countless others, Croll, Rosalie Craig, Eileen 15 Heroines events. We collaborate with and we’ve rediscovered work Atkins, and our Patron, Michael Martin, 2020. Photo by Robert Docherty Workman; and Sinead Cusack in theatres across the world, by writers including Terence Gambon. (Clockwise from top) David Threlfall in Dog Walker and our productions have Rehearsals for Since 2017, Jermyn Street Theatre has been a full-time over 12,000 producing theatre. We normally create around ten full-scale audience members enjoyed our productions a year, often working together with regional theatres. free 13 hour The Odyssey We are a theatre run by freelancers, for freelancers. We try to provide a caring and supportive environment for everyone who over works with us. We get to know our audience members well, and 3,500 households bought tickets for our Friends and donors are an important part of our family. 15 Heroines

Our small seating capacity means subsidy and charitable support are essential to our business model. over 300 freelancers The theatre’s co-founder, Howard Jameson, continues as Chair of employed Trustees today. The theatre is led jointly by its other co-founder and Executive Director, Penny Horner, and its Artistic Director and Executive Producer, Tom Littler. “ Not only has 154 Sonnets read by stars and Jermyn Street recent graduates survived these twin disasters, over 50 it has emerged Tiny Plays faciliated as a stronger, 47 more diverse, episodes of cabaret songs performed in Sing For Your Supper more outward- By September we had set up we commissioned 15 leading , 2020. Photo by Robert Workman. looking and our Opening Doors scheme female and non-binary 16 which sponsored three diverse playwrights to adapt Ovid’s more exciting Creative Associates groups of early-career artists Heroides. Directed by Adjoa The Tempest organisation supported to use our empty theatre space Andoh, Tom Littler and Cat and allow them to workshop Robey and performed live from than before. their new plays. 16 Creative our empty theatre space then ” 15 Associates, made up of some of captured by Digital Theatre +, Whitney Kehinde in Whitney Kehinde The Stage female and non-binary the applicants to our Opening 15 Heroines featured a stellar playwrights commissioned to Doors scheme, became part of cast including Olivia Williams, rewrite Ovid’s Heroides our family. Nadine Marshall and Patsy ADAPTING Ferran. 12 Our artistic output flourished bedtime stories towards the end of the year In January 2021, we were TO from different heritages and we produced an online awarded Fringe Theatre of performance of Emily Wilson’s the Year by The Stage Awards translation of The Odyssey for our efforts throughout COVID-19 10 with the London Review 2020. Artistic Director Tom episodes of in-house podcast Bookshop, commissioned 12 Littler and Executive Director Fundraising work stabilised Zoom production of The Wind series actors to create and perform Penny Horner were recognised In March 2020, closure of the our recovery over the course of in the Willows reached out to bedtime stories from their in The Stage 100 for their theatre due to the Covid-19 2020 and enabled the artistic and comforted our audiences. different heritages through In commitment to producing pandemic was almost output to continue. Digital 5 core staff members Dreams We Wake, and co- theatre in the most difficult of permanent. Despite the projects such as The Sonnet Behind the scenes, we held produced a zoom production circumstances. financial jeopardy we faced due Project, featuring drama school monthly online play reading of A Christmas Carol with to the closure of The Tempest graduates and household clubs, connected freelancers 3 Guildford Shakespeare Jermyn Street Theatre is a charitable trust, Registered Charity No.1186940. and a catastrophic flood that names Olivia Colman and David to shielding audience members groups of early-career artists Company, starring Brian It receives no regular funding or Suchet, Sing For Your Supper for weekly phone calls and sponsored destroyed our workshop, Blessed and Penelope Keith. grants, and many of its staff are archives, and dressing led by Stefan Bednarczyk, a initiated the creation of over volunteers. Overheads and production rooms, we were saved by the podcast series Prompt Corner, 50 miniature plays from 15 Heroines was our flagship expenses are met by ticket sales generosity of a crowdfunding an audio version of One Million audiences across the UK. 2 Autumn production in which and charitable donations. To find out appeal to our audience. Tiny Plays About Britain and a interactive Zoom co-productions more, see Our Charity on our website. A

An , 2019. “ “ deliciously unexpected haunting treat of the production highest order. Services Rendered For A JEWEL IN THE ” from a The Evening Standard CROWN OF THE plucky and dedicated . The Spy in the Stalls” Michael Lumsden and Sally Cheng in Photo by Robert Workman

Nearly 40,000 audience members have come to see our shows in our first two and a half years as a producing theatre. We work with theatres across the country, co- We have produced 15 world premiere shows in our 70-seat producing and touring space off Piccadilly Circus. premieres, revivals and classics with theatres 30 new plays have been published in the UK after beginning and Cumbria Scarborough here. Pattison. , 2019. Photo by Keith companies such as York

In 2020, our digital content on YouTube was viewed Julie Miss Guildford Shakespeare 117,896 times. Company, , The Oxford Bath Sonning Mill at Sonning, When producing shows, of our income comes from The Watermill 58% Theatre and the Box Office, with the remainder relying on charitable donations Guildford from the public, private funding and support from members of our Theatre Royal Bath. Newbury

Friends Scheme. James Sheldon and Charlotte Hamblin in Chichester

“ A set of gems 2018. “ In Jermyn Street Theatre’s “ A beautiful in a small intimate confines, every scene piece of black box. at 8.30, Tonight feels like an intrusion into Financial Times” theatre. some private moment, like ReviewsHub” eavesdropping on a stranger’s , 2017. conversation.

” The Blinding Light The Stage Miranda Foster, Nick Waring and Ian Hallard in Nick Waring Miranda Foster, Photo by Robert Workman. Gala Gordon in Photo by Robert Workman OUR TEAM

At Jermyn Street Theatre, we have a core team of five staff members, supported by a dedicated network of those who run the theatre building, produce its artistic output, and look after our Creative Associates.

Board of Advisory Board Trustees - new in 2021

Artistic Director/

, 2019. Executive Director/Co- Executive Founder Producer

Yet another The Ice Cream Boys “ Front of House Carne Deputy Marketing and Artistic Associates Freelance triumph for Building Manager Venue Technicians Resident Producer and Box Office Director Graphic Design (advisory) Creatives Jermyn Street Theatre. Sardines” Interns/ Creative placements in Bu Kunene and Andrew Francis in Photo by Robert Workman Associates higher education REPRESENTATION

We have a commitment that at least 50% of all our onstage and offstage teams must be female each year. On shows between August 2017 and December 2020,

66% of our writers and production teams and , 2018.

57% of our actors “ This gem of About Leo identified as women. a play is as We also believe in producing , 2018 . theatre that is representational beautiful as it and empowering, and are keen to

hear from producers, directors, is profound. at 8.30 Tonight playwrights and their agents The Guardian” An

Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy in Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy Photo by Robert Workman “ from the LGBTQ+ community, extraordinary especially those who self-identify as trans and non-binary. relationships with, more Black, all actors, stage management and feat of Asian, and ethnically diverse creatives must be paid at least teamwork. We are actively seeking to employ, creatives. We are signatories to the National Minimum Wage. The Independent” and forge long-term working the Equity Fringe Agreement, so Ben Wiggins and Boadicea Ricketts in Photo by Robert Workman Off West Award Finalists, 2020, 2021 UK Business Hero 2020 Award for Inclusivity 2019 (Institute of Directors, South East & London) Community Consideration Award 2019 Charity of the Year 2017 Come Access in the Arts Award 2013, 2017 HITHER... WHO WE ARE

Since 2006, Guildford Shakespeare Company has been entertaining and educating Surrey and the South East’s residents and visitors with unique theatre experiences in extraordinary places. “ They have We are still run by Sarah Gobran become and Matt Pinches, the same two This is why THE LAST 16 actor-managers who started “ the town’s the company 15 years ago, who British MONTHS have grown GSC into one of the treasure. largest producers of home-grown theatre Through the recent pandemic We also developed Essential Surrey ” professional theatre in the is such a GSC continued to create and region. innovate. 905 minutes of free online marvel. content. , 2021 Using Zoom, we staged 9 live Over this time, we have Daily Telegraph” original productions, seen by welcomed more than over

115,000 4000 Conquer To She Stoops people to our site-responsive , 2018. Photo by Matt Pereira. households worldwide. productions, which every year create jobs for over As well as Shakespeare on lakes, In 2015, the inimitable Brian Together with our ongoing , 2020. Photos by Matt Pereira in castles, churches, museums, Blessed OBE joined the company and Juliet Romeo education and outreach work, we 130 galleries and gardens, we’ve to play the title role in King Lear. we were able to create 145 jobs professional artists. staged six brand new works Blessed is now our Honorary for freelance artists during this Macbeth inspired by classics including Patron. challenging period. GSC is a site-responsive Chaucer, the Brothers Grimm and company, meaning we make Lewis Carroll.

theatre in non-theatre spaces. Lucy Pearson and Noel White in LEFT: Rachel Summers and Corey Montague-Sholay in RIGHT: Jack Whitam in EDUCATION & OUTREACH “ This Our growing Education and schools and reduce social course for teenagers and their company Outreach Department works with isolation in the community. families, clubs for young carers some 5,000 people, young and Every year, some 3,500 and residency in a number of is nothing old, across the South East. We participants take part in live Guildford schools. short of deliver a myriad of weekly in- theatre experiences, workshops house drama clubs and classes and therapy sessions, the cast Read more about GSC at miraculous. for ages 8-80, along with in- majority of which are entirely www.guildford-shakespeare- A beacon for school workshops and tours, and free to access. company.co.uk/our-vision/ , 2015. Photography by Steve Porter. private tuition through Trinity. the Arts. Brave New World is our These include inter-generational Brian Blessed King Lear programme of outreach projects projects between schools and (Honorary Patron) ” to assist less-advantaged care-homes, a mental-health Brian Blessed in “ The quality of the AUDIENCE performances Broadly similar to Jermyn Street From April 2019 to April 2020 be their only source of live and equally loyal, though less we welcomed Shakespeare. and London orientated. Our core workshops is audience come from a 7-mile 16,300 audience Guildford has a plethora of radius of the town, and many members to our shows. further and higher education unparalleled. have been coming for years. They institutions, however, we have It’s all the enjoy the unique settings we use Our audiences are likely to yet to engage fully with this for our shows and are excited to attend the Yvonne Arnaud, demographic. children can explore new ways to experience the Rose at Kingston and talk about. theatre. The majority are 45+. Shakespeare’s Globe. We may Teacher at ” Guildford Grove School OUR TEAM

It’s given Board of “ her such Trustees a passion

, 2019. Photo by Matt Pereira; Picture Alex Brenner. Joint Artistic Joint Artistic for both & Executive & Executive Producer Producer Shakespeare Sarah Gobran Matt Pinches and drama. Head of Drama club parent The Merry of Windsor Wives Education & ” Company Stage Trainee Assisant Development Company Front of House Marketing Creative Teams Outreach Manager Producer / for Education & Administrator Manager Officer Manager Director Outreach Clockwise from TOP: Delight in Shakespeare Primary School Tour 2019. Photo by Mark Dean; Clockwise from TOP: Delight in Shakespeare Primary School Tour Sarah Gobran in