Freelance Junior Listings Coordinator

Job Description

Creative Lives in Progress is an inclusive creative careers resource, on a mission to transform the way emerging talent access, understand and connect with the industry.

We encourage greater transparency and representation within the creative working world by sharing advice and insight, highlighting entry-level opportunities, as well as hosting events that bring talent and industry together.

We’re currently looking for a highly organised and proactive individual to help us manage our Opportunities Board and Company Listings. This freelance role will run from September 2023 until February 2024, and will require 25 hours of work per week.

Ideally we are looking for someone who is able to work 5 hours each weekday, but we have some scope for flexibility on exact working hours. The candidate must be UK-based but we are open to remote work if you are not based in London.

The successful candidate will work closely with our Content Lead to ensure the smooth running of both our Opportunities Board and Company Listings board.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be highly organised and able to work across multiple tasks
• Be a brilliant communicator, both written and verbal
• Have an eye for detail
• Be able to write accurately (no need to be a skilled writer, but you’ll need to be able to edit text and spot errors)
• Have some awareness of the creative industry and creative world
• Be a self-starter with an ability to work proactively and independently
• Tasks, responsibilities & expectations
• Using our content management system (CMS), to manage the publishing of posts on our Opportunities Board page, ensuring all postings meet our guidelines and editing where necessary
• Managing our ‘Listings’ inbox to oversee email communications and ensure all enquiries are responded to
• Overseeing the promotion of Opportunities Board posts – creating and scheduling social posts, created using dedicated templates
• Assisting the editorial team by supplying suggested opportunities to be featured in the newsletter and in editorial
• Liaising with the Project and Account Manager to ensure any Company Partner and featured opportunities are promoted correctly
• Carrying out weekly research for new opportunities to be featured; reaching out to new contacts regarding potential postings
• Maintaining communications with those who posting opportunities, following up to understand impact
• Assisting with the management of our Company Listings page

For your awareness, below is a list of the programmes/ tools we use. Experience with these is a bonus, but not a requirement:

• InDesign for creating social content
• Craft CMS (content management system)
• Gmail
• Buffer for scheduling social media posts

Key details:

• Application deadline: 31 August 2023
• Salary: London Living Wage
• Ideal start date: 11 September 2023
• Hours: 25 hours per week
• Location: Remote and 2 days a week in-studio – 37-39 Kingsway, WC2B 6TP
• Contract: Part-time, Freelance

As part of our Equality Policy - We are committed in our journey to eliminating discrimination, encouraging and valuing diversity amongst our workforce - We welcome enquiries from everyone. Please let us know in the application form if there are any adjustments we can make to make your recruitment journey easier.