Bupa Great North Run Culture is recruiting a Communications and Audience Development Manager.

Great North Run Culture is an annual series of arts events, projects and commissions that celebrate and respond to sport and art, set against the backdrop of the world’s largest half-marathon. We are a not-for-profit organisation in the North East and programme work across art forms, working with artists at all stages of their careers and in partnership with the region’s best cultural venues and organisations.

We are looking to appoint a Communications and Audience Development Manager to help deliver our exciting and innovative programme.

Working closely with the Director, the Manager will be a creative thinker, have excellent project management skills, a passion for their work and ideally at least 3 years experience of working in a similar role. They will be responsible for all areas of external communication, developing new and existing audiences through the delivery of our communications strategy and our strategic business objectives, and raising the profile of Great North Run Culture amongst our peers, audiences and funders.

The Communications and Audience Development Manager will work 2 days a week for 6 months of the year, building up to full-time over the summer and early autumn to coincide with the Bupa Great North Run.

A full job description is available to download; if you have any problems downloading the file please contact beth@greatnorthrunculture.org

Please send a cv and a letter outlining why you would be suitable for the post to beth@greatnorthrunculture.org by 12th August 2011. 

Interviews will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne on 23^rd and 24^th August.