Marketing and Communications Officer

Marketing and Communications Officer

Open Up Music is an organisation with a simple but powerful mission: to open up music to young disabled musicians. We work alongside those young people to tackle musical inequality - inspiring new instruments and new musical forms for the 21st century. We are looking for a Marketing and Communications Officer to join us at an exciting stage of development.

This academic year, we are providing accessible musical progression opportunities to over 600 of the most marginalised young musicians in the UK. We do this through our award-winning programmes, including Open Orchestras (the largest network of inclusive ensembles in the UK) and the National Open Youth Orchestra (the world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble). Clarion, our award-winning digital musical instrument designed for accessibility, will also be made commercially available, enabling musicians across the UK to access it.

As Marketing and Communications Officer, you will play a key role in supporting us to reach our audience and income development goals. Core responsibilities will include developing activity and content across print, website, social media and email marketing, some of which will be co-created with young musicians. You will use your creativity and sensitivity to create content that engages audiences with our mission, vision, and values. You will be the main day-to-day contact for partners, taking the lead on specific campaigns, creating and sharing assets and briefing suppliers. You will use your project and budget management skills to deliver your work effectively, and monitor the impact of our MarComms work to ensure we deliver against our Key Performance Indicators. 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are. We take our responsibility to acknowledge, challenge and dismantle barriers within music and our organisation extremely seriously. To that end, we are especially interested in receiving applications from Disabled people.

We also recognise that systems of privilege, structural disadvantage and barriers to participation often intersect with one another. For this reason, we particularly welcome applications from people from other structurally disadvantaged backgrounds and underrepresented groups. This may include people from the Global Majority, migrants, refugees, LGBTQIA+ people and/or people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds