Job: Digital Content Creator
Open City is seeking a Digital Content Creator.
Salary: £24,000 per annum pro rata
Contract type: Permanent part time contract
Hours: Four days a week
About Open City
Open City is a charity dedicated to making London and other cities more open, accessible and equitable. We help citizens of all backgrounds to understand and engage with how the urban landscape is made, and have a role in shaping its future.
We achieve this in multiple ways:
Open City runs a rich public programme opening up dialogue about architecture and the city in creative ways including events, publications, courses and tours throughout the year. Alongside this we create digital content such as films, podcasts and social media, that further opens up the conversations about the city and its future.
Our international network of festivals, Open House Worldwide, unlocks physical buildings and important debate in cities from New York to Lagos for large celebrations of architecture and city-making. In London, the Open House Festival is now in its 30th year and is one of the largest cultural events in the country giving around 250,000 access to buildings and ideas they are normally locked out of while opening the city and the stories behind it.
Open City also runs a number of pioneering education programmes equipping children and young people, particularly from under-represented backgrounds, with skills and routes into careers in city making and design.
Job description – Digital Content Creator
Open City is recruiting for a Digital Content Creator. This new role will contribute to a number of programmes across the charity by creating and tracking engaging video, audio and visual content that drives engagement with big conversations about architecture and urban issues among professional and public audiences.
The successful candidate will work across the charity’s programmes including our podcasts, films, social media campaigns and live online events in close collaboration with Open City’s small staff team and volunteers. You will lead and support various multimedia projects including hands-on production and editing of audio and video material, and using the content you and other Open City colleagues create to engage audiences.
The successful candidate will be ready to work on and develop Open City’s existing formats (which include short documentary film tours, dynamic 360 video bike tours, weekly audio-only podcasts and mixed media social media posts) and create innovative new formats that deliver awesome audience experiences, effectively engaging citizens with urban issues.
Alongside content production and supported by the wider team, you will lead Open City’s efforts for using digital content to engage with our audience across the charity’s platforms. With 100,000 followers across our social media platforms and a further 100,000 email newsletter subscribers, there is significant opportunity to reach a large audience with engaging and purposeful material. The successful candidate will therefore understand the use of online analytics to track the success of content-led campaigns and use this knowledge to improve the charity’s output over time.
Key roles and responsibilities
Working with Open City’s programme managers and curators to produce and edit audio podcasts and films.
Developing social media campaigns and sharing programme content across media channels.
Actively engaging and enhancing audience experience; harnessing an interactive and discursive online culture.
Actively engaging with and demonstrating an interest in the work and mission of Open City.
Supporting and collaborating with the Open City team across various programmes and live events where necessary.
Contributing to the overall curation of Open City and it’s programmes, proposing ideas, speaking on behalf of the charity and actively contributing to the development of the charity’s operations.
Contributing to improving Open City as a workplace and organisation on behalf of the staff who work there and the audience it serves.
Personal Specification
Essential
Proficient in Adobe editing software, specifically film, audio and graphic packages.
Experience in creating and managing social media channels and focused campaigns.
Experience in building and engaging audiences.
Confidence in using basic online analytics to inform future online campaigns.
Good written and verbal communication.
Avid interest in London’s architecture and citizens.
Interest in public programming of events.
Desirable
Background in digital media or journalism .
Educational background in architecture such as RIBA Part 1 or similar.
Flexible Hours and evening events
Open City staff typically work 9.30am until 6pm days, however the charity regularly stages evening events and audio recordings which sometimes require staff to work some hours in evenings. The ability to work flexibly with your hours in this role is therefore important. As a guide, candidates should anticipate around two hours audio editing or similar work per week to fall after 6pm.
How to apply
Please send a covering letter of no more than one page of A4, CV and portfolio with links to your film, audio and graphic work to Zoë Cave, Open City’s communications and development manager on zoe@open-city.org.uk with the words “Digital Content Creator” in the subject of the email.
Deadline
The deadline is midnight on Monday the 1st of March with interviews taking place the following Monday via online meetings.
Questions
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Zoë Cave on the email address above.