Role Title: Marketing & Communications Producer

Salary: £38,376 FTE per year (pro-rata to 3 days per week)

Contract: 1 year, subject to the renewal of funding

Time commitment: 3 days per week, flexible

Location: Hoxton, London UK

Deadline for applications: Sunday 26th October 2025

Shortlisting / Interviews: week commencing 3rd November 2025

Start Date: 5 January 2026

Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation working at the intersection of arts, migration and social change. For 12 years, Counterpoints Arts has been at the vanguard of cultural commissioning and practice, supporting and producing the arts by and about migrants and refugees, ensuring that their contributions are recognised and welcomed within British arts, history and culture.

Counterpoints Arts produces a range of programmes in the UK and internationally, including Refugee Week, PopChange and Platforma festivals. As the breadth of our collaborations and variety of events continues to grow, we are looking for a Marketing and Communications Producer to enhance our brand and programme visibility, helping us to engage new audiences and grow our reach. This is a newly created role offering an exciting opportunity to shape our strategy in this area and manage our marketing and communications activities. The successful candidate will be a dynamic individual with strong creativity and communication skills, an imaginative approach and experience growing an audience base and working across a variety of platforms. We are particularly interested in recruiting someone whose values align with the charity’s mission and overall team culture.

Counterpoints Arts aims to attract and retain talented people from all backgrounds to its team. We particularly welcome applications from those who have been historically excluded from the cultural sector, including people with lived experience of displacement, people of colour and other ethnic global majorities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, Disabled people and people from a working class background.

Responsibilities: 

Strategy Development

  • Develop and implement a new marketing strategy, complementing our existing digital communications strategy, to help deliver our impact message and support our fundraising ambitions;
  • Ensure that Counterpoints’ voice and values are reflected in external communications and marketing materials;

Marketing & Campaign Management

  • Collaborate with programme producers to create campaigns that increase attendance and engagement at events and activities, including driving publicity for large scale festivals like Refugee Week, Platforma and Pop Change Retreat; 
  • Work closely with our Digital Producer to leverage content across our online channels; 
  • Build and maintain relationships with media platforms, partner communications teams and content creators to secure coverage of Counterpoints activities and promote joint initiatives and messaging;

Evaluation

  • Leverage tools to track and analyse marketing performance and make data-driven decisions to optimise campaigns;
  • Collaborate with the wider team on evaluation and impact reporting to ensure marketing and communications reflect real outcomes and learning;

Collaboration & Delivery

  • Be a collaborative member of the Counterpoints team, contributing to team meetings and strategy development;
  • Be flexible in your approach to the role, allowing space for our marketing and communications activities to grow and respond to the changing needs of the organisation;
  • Ensure we uphold our commitment to equity, diversity, environmental sustainability and inclusive communication practices.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • A creative and adept communicator and storyteller with excellent writing skills and experience of producing newsletter and blog content;
  • At least three years’ experience creating, implementing and evaluating successful marketing and communications campaigns;
  • Track record of delivering audience growth and demonstrating ability to retain supporters;
  • Strong interpersonal skills, adept at collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders (including media partners, design agencies and artists);
  • A motivated self-starter able to work under their own initiative whilst remaining committed to the wider values and collaborative spirit of the team;
  • High proficiency in digital collaborative team tools and IT systems, such as Slack, Google Drive, Calendars, Hootsuite, Canva, WordPress, etc.

Desirable Experience includes:

  • Lived experience of displacement or migration
  • Experience working in refugee advocacy, with displaced communities, or in arts/culture/social change (paid or voluntary) 
  • Design skills (e.g. Canva, Adobe, or similar) 

Values and Beliefs underpinning our work

Our work is organised around a set of core values and beliefs that guide our work and inform our decisions. 

Our working culture, created through the interactions of our staff, volunteers, trustees, artists, partners and wider network, is based around the principles of mutual respect, collaboration, trust, care, generosity, transparency, accountability and deep commitment to our work. 

We are dedicated to ensuring fairness and equity for all staff, regardless of their position, gender, age, race, religion, or background.

How To Apply

Please note that applicants must have a current legal right to work in the UK (this job does not qualify for the UK Skilled Worker Visa).

Please email the following documents to sarah@counterpoints.org.uk with ‘Marketing & Communications Producer’ as the subject, by Sunday 26th October 2025:

  • An up-to-date, comprehensive CV
  • Covering letter (max one page) outlining how you meet the role and person specification criteria
  • A completed Equality Diversity Form. Please download, complete and attach to your application form. 

We encourage applicants to apply even if you don’t feel like you meet every criteria, and please contact on sarah@counterpoints.org.uk if you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal chat about the role.

We will review all applications and hold interviews in early November 2025 with the successful candidate starting in January 2025.