Responsible to : Head of Programme (St Anne’s House)
Responsible for: Occasionalvolunteers and freelancers
Hours : 30 (4 days, Monday to Thursday)
Contract: Salaried, PAYE. Fixed 12 months contract, potential to extend
Deadline For Applications: 10 August, 5pm
Candidates notified of shortlisting: 18 August
Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by: 20 August 2025
Interviews: 26 August 2025
Proposed Start Date: 01 October 2025
THE ROLE
As Communications Producer you will lead on communications across all Bricks projects including St Anne’s House and Bricks Public Art, and Bricks Creative Infrastructure Agency. You will be responsible for ensuring a cohesive vision across all platforms, working closely with the team to join up the communications for the organisation.
AREAS
Promotion and what’s on
You will work across the team to support producers to promote and effectively communicate their strands of work both on and offline. You will support dissemination of information via appropriate channels to get the word out to a variety of audiences, holding responsibility for templates and knowing how best to use our available channels.
Social media and website
You will be responsible for social media, including managing Mailchimp audiences and our websites. You will ensure coherent and up to date content, and work with the team and building tenants to make sure the website and social media are engaging and full of rich content. You will be the first point of contact for messaging via social media, referring to other team members as appropriate.
Design and photography
You will be responsible for ensuring our design guidelines and documents are used effectively, maintaining a consistent visual approach across our work, including at larger events and through printed materials. You will support with photography and simple moving image at key moments to maintain high quality image work of things that are happening.
Newsletter and blogs
You will work closely with the team to collate weekly newsletters and what’s on pages. Keeping a close on things that are happening, you will support the team to develop regular blog posts about our work, ensuring that the tone and content are engaging and that we’re sharing key messages.
Accessibility
You will lead on ensuring that our content and communications are accessible to all audiences, reviewing design for accessibility and staying up to date on best practices for this. This includes ensuring that information about accessing physical spaces and events allows for people with access needs to take part in what’s on offer.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Oversee and implement communications vision across Bricks projects
* Support project promotion and coordination of communications for different activities
* Ensure consistent use of design guidelines across platforms and printed materials
* Manage social media, websites, mailing lists and weekly newsletters
* Engaging communities, journalists and publications in our work.
* Research audiences and metrics for out different channels, and maintain both online and local dissemination channels to support producers to communicate
* Creating end of project comms reports and evaluation on engagement.
* Manage a range of templates and design guidelines to support producers to design materials
* Capture high quality images and video content to document Bricks activities and events
* Photography and image archive management. Ensuring any external photographers/contributors credits and captions are clearly recorded.
* Champion and stay up to date with best practise accessible communications, including in physical spaces
This list of tasks is not exclusive and does not form part of any contract of employment. Duties may be varied from time to time, with the job description being subject to review or periodic amendments.
Person Specification:
* Demonstrated experience managing websites and social media channels
* Ability to tailor content for different audiences, including community groups, artists, funders, and the general public
* Experience of working with visual branding and design standards for an organisation
* Strong copywriting and editing skills for a range of audiences
* Basic photography and image editing skills
* Ability to create or edit short video or moving image content
* A self-starter, ability to work independently and as part of a small team
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and tasks simultaneously
* Experience using design tools such Canva
* Knowledge of communications for the contemporary arts, public art, or community-led projects
* Proven experience in developing and delivering communications strategies across multiple platforms
* Advanced photography and videography skills
* Experience using Indesign, photoshop and other Adobe tools
* Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
* Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive communication practices
* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
* Ability to interpret analytics and insights to improve digital performance
* Local connection to St Annes and the wider creative community in Bristol
TO APPLY
How to apply
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Our application process is blind — all applications are assessed anonymously, with all personal details removed to ensure fairness and reduce bias. We do not accept CV’s as part of the application process for this role.
Apply for this role by completing our application form, available to download as a Word document — if you need this in another format please emailhr@bricksbristol.org .
Bricks strives to promote equality and diversity at all levels of our team. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive in our ways of working, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from you if you are from a background that is underrepresented in the sector, for example if you are from a community that experiences racism or you are a disabled person (as defined by the Equalities Act 2010), you did not go to University or had free school meals as a child.
We believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and want to welcome the whole person to work. Our staff are not appointed to represent specific groups or organisations, but to represent themselves and their own experiences and perspectives.
We welcome feedback on how we can improve our recruitment processes.
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