We’re hiring: Marketing Manager needed.

We’re looking for a Marketing Manager to oversee the ongoing development and implementation of marketing strategies, development activity and ticket sales for Dublin Fringe Festival as we head into our 18th year.

The Marketing Manager is a key member of the overall administrative team of the festival. We’re a curated, multi-disciplinary festival and year-round organisation focusing on new and innovative approaches to the arts. We lead the sector with innovative, cost-effective marketing campaigns and a strong brand reaching enviable demographics. We reach and engage the audience everyone else wants and we are looking for a Marketing Manager who can match our previous successes and exceed future expectations.

We’re not just a festival: Dublin Fringe Festival is a year-round organisation supporting the development and presentation of new work by Irish and International artists of vision, nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. An active curator, we provide an environment in which participating artists challenge, subvert and invigorate their disciplines and practice.

Dublin Fringe Festival provides context for new work and demands audience engagement and dialogue. The scale and environment of the festival broadens arts participation, playing a vital role in the fabric of Dublin and Irish cultural life.

Full outline of the role and terms of employment: Marketing Manager Job Description 2011
Salary: €30,000 – 35,000 per annum commensurate with experience

To apply for this position please send a CV listing three references (preferably with their email addresses) and a covering letter to wendy@fringefest.com. In the covering letter candidates should address the following screening questions. Candidates who do not specifically respond to these screening questions will not be included in the shortlisting process.

1. Give details of the last marketing campaign that you delivered, indicating the audience, scope and scale; your role in the campaign; its success and how you evaluated that success.
2. Provide us with a sample of copy that you have written that you are most proud of and explain why.
3. Detail a social media campaign that you have recently observed that you rate as an effective campaign and explain why.
4. Detail, briefly, two international arts organisations whose brands you consider to be visually strong and impactful and explain why.

Closing Date for applications is 6pm Friday 25th November 2011. Late applications will not be accepted