Communications Manager - Theatre & Dance and Creative Collaboration

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Job Title: Communications Manager – Theatre & Dance and Creative Collaboration

Posting Start Date: 02/07/2025

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Salary: £42,750 – £47,620 Contractual Hours: 35 Workplace category: Hybrid
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The Barbican is a multidisciplinary international arts centre in the City of London.

Across its theatres, concert halls, cinemas, galleries, business venues, public and community spaces, the Barbican showcases the most exciting artists and performers from around the world, pushing traditional artistic boundaries and helping us understand our lives in new and unexpected ways. Each year, the Centre presents hundreds of different performances, events and exhibitions that entertain and inspire millions of people, create connections, provoke debate, and reflect the world we live in.

Firmly rooted in its neighbourhood, the Barbican collaborates on projects with local communities, and supports young people and emerging talent to develop their artistic practice and access jobs in the creative industry.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to lead the communication of our arts and learning programming in the fields of theatre and dance, and creative collaboration. Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager – Arts Programming, and a managing small team of Communications Officer and Assistant, it will be your role to develop and deliver creative audience-focused communications campaigns to showcase everything the Barbican has to offer across your artform and support audience development.

The primary focus of the role is on press and media and you will have direct responsibility for proactive and reactive media handling – driving positive preview, listings and review coverage and expertly spotting potential risks and handling crises. You\’ll also work seamlessly with our marketing and digital teams to ensure communications strategies, campaigns and tactics are fully integrated across all channels. And you\’ll build strong relationships with key stakeholders within your artform including our resident and associate companies, producers, record labels, agents, artists, curators and performers.

Our ideal candidates will be confident working directly with media and a range of stakeholders. You will have demonstrable experience of objective setting and evaluation, and using results to further refine and improve communications plans. You\’ll also be a dynamic and committed team player, and a confident and diplomatic communicator. A passion for the arts is important, and experience and knowledge of the artform you are interested in would be a clear advantage.

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If there are any issues with the application process, please contact the Barbican Careers team at .

Deadline for applications is 23:55 on Sunday 13 July 2025. The advert may close ahead of this date if a sufficient number of applications is reached – apply early to avoid missing out.

Please note that we are unable to accept late applications. We regret that we are unable to provide feedback on your application.

The City of London Corporation want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do. The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation – and is committed to regularly benchmarking and reviewing pay against external sectors.

As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of staff within the Barbican we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from groups that are currently underrepresented, including people from the Global Majority* and D/deaf and disabled people. We want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We are members of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who would like to be considered under this scheme and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please contact us if you require reasonable adjustments as part of the application process.

*Global Majority is a collective term that refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as \’ethnic minorities\’.

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