Marketing and Outreach Assistant

Salary: £150 per day

Oska Bright Film Festival is looking for Marketing and Outreach Assistants to help them reach UK-wide audiences and support their partner cinemas.

About Oska Bright Film Festival

Oska Bright Film Festival is the world’s leading festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism.

With less than 5% of disabled people working in the UK film industry, Oska Bright Film Festival is driven to make change happen. Working internationally with industry partners and funded by the BFI, our team produces the BIFA and BAFTA-qualifying Oska Bright Film Festival, promotes accessible screenings, runs venue training, and develops skills for aspiring filmmakers. Oska Bright Film Festival puts people with learning disabilities or autism where they should be, on the big screen.

This year’s Oska Bright Film Festival will take place 11-17 March, with screenings in Brighton and across the UK. Alongside our core festival in Brighton, UK partner cinemas will be hosting a screening of Oska Bright’s Best of the Festival programme, meaning we’ll reach audiences all over the UK.

About the role

We’re looking for marketing support to help us reach UK-wide audiences and support our partner cinemas. Their work will help them develop their learning-disabled and autistic audiences.

We’re looking for Marketing and Outreach Assistants in the following places:

• Oxford, 5 days freelance, at £150 per day
• Manchester, 7 days freelance, at £150 per day
• Leeds, 5 days freelance, at £150 per day
• London, 5 days freelance, at £150 per day
• Birmingham, 5 days freelance, at £150 per day
• Sittingbourne, 3 days freelance at £150 per day
• Redhill, 3 days freelance at £150 per day
• Banbury, 3 days freelance at £150 per day

Job description

• Support key UK venues by researching, contacting and introducing regional learning-disabled audiences to our partner venues.
• Develop a regional database or newsletter, engaging schools, colleges, day centres, group homes and groups which work with learning-disabled and autistic people.
• Distribute new Oska Bright marketing materials and flyers to these audiences.
• Attend and document the screening event and survey audiences.

Person specification

• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload
• Experience in marketing/audience development
• Experience of Google suite
• Experience in accessible communication
• An interest in film and making the film sector inclusive
• An engaging person who is a brilliant communicator

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from people of all cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, disability, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, and education.

Applications

To apply, please email lizzie.banks@carousel.org.uk with your CV and cover letter by 30 January.

Please complete our equal opportunities monitoring form. If you need any support in applying for the role, please get in touch: lizzie.banks@carousel.org.uk

The closing date for this position is 30/01/2024 at 23:59