Marketing and Communications Manager
World Heart Beat Closing date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026
- Full time
- £30k-£40k
- Apply now
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Job Summary
Job Description
The Marketing & Communications Officer is a highly hands-on role responsible for the day-today delivery of our marketing and communications across all World Heart Beat strands. The post holder oversees all promotion and communications for live events, the academy, the Recording Studio, the Record Label, and the organisation's overall charitable messaging.
Alongside supervising a small part-time team (2 others), freelancers, and interns, the role personally creates content, posts on social media, builds and sends email campaigns, updates the website, manages event on-sales, delivers press activity, and designs marketing materials due to limited budgets.
The role is externally facing and plays a key part in stakeholder engagement, fundraising, sponsorship activity, Arts Council reporting, and the development of new audiences and digital income streams, including paid live streaming, content creation projects, and venue hire promotion.
Job Requirements
World Heart Beat is a multi-strand arts organisation delivering music education through the academy and live events, studio recordings, and artist development through World Heart Beat CIC, with a focus on events, the caf /bar space and commercial hires as earned revenue.
The organisation delivers approximately 90 live, academy, and fundraising events per year, alongside education programmes, digital projects, and venue hires. The Marketing & Communications Officer is a highly hands-on role responsible for the day-today delivery of our marketing and communications across all World Heart Beat strands.
The post holder oversees all promotion and communications for live events, the academy, the Recording Studio, the Record Label, and the organisation's overall charitable messaging.
For full description, see job ad
Job Responsibilities
- Marketing Strategy & Audience Development
- Social Media, News and Blog, Content & Video
- Email Marketing (Mailchimp)
- Website & Digital Platforms
- Events, On-Sales & Ticketing
- Design, Print & Campaign Assets
- Press & Media Relations
- Record Label & Artist Marketing
- Fundraising & Sponsorship Support
- Data, Evaluation & Reporting
For full description, see job ad
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Marketing and Communications Manager
- Salary: £30k-£40k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Music
- Role: Marketing & Digital
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026
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Location:
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Job: Marketing and Communications Manager
Job: Marketing and Communications Manager
Organisation: World Heart Beat
Postcode: SW11 7BD
How to Apply
Please visit website for full details of job description and how to apply.
Please provide a copy of your current CV together with a covering letter explaining why you are interested in the position and how your skills and experience aligns with the person specification.
- Contact name: Hilary O'Connor
- Contact email: [email protected]
About World Heart Beat
Wandsworth-based World Heart Beat Music Academy was founded in 2009 to meet the need for affordable music education from grassroots to professional level for South Londoners, no matter their age, background or skills. World Heart Beat is a leading music educator and hub, supported by Arts Council England, and known for its inclusive global music programmes, as well as its a state-of-the-art concert hall, industry standard recording studio, media broadcast room, teaching
spaces and cafe.