Could you be our Digital Associate?

 

Just a few days remaining before the application deadline for our Administrator and Digital Associate posts. We've had a really enthusiastic response so far but we are happy to continue to receive further applications right up until 5pm on Monday (12 March).

The Digital Associate post is probably a bit of a unique role even though it's becoming much more common for arts organisations to take on staff whose main function is to support the development of activity in this area.

For us here at Hoipolloi this is a key appointment, particularly in the development of our new Hugh Hughes project, Stories from an Invisible Town, and there is plenty of online activity as part of this project for the Digital Associate to get their teeth into.

We're currently in the process of developing an exciting new online space where Hugh Hughes can share the stories of his memories of his childhood. There will be audio, video, photos, illustrations and text and we need someone to to help us turn these individual elements into an imaginative audience experience. And, most importantly, to help us find an audience to experience it!

Alongside this, the Digital Associate will take the lead on running our ongoing social media presence and help us think about how we can use all of our digital activity to generate new income.

The most common question I've received about this post is whether we are looking for the Digital Associate to spend all their time at the Hoipolloi office or if the successful applicant could work more flexibly away from Cambridge. We are very open to this possibility because a great deal of the Digital Associate's time will be spent working with various applications and CRM systems online anyway. Although I would say that I imagine around one day a week would be worked here in Cambridge, something we'd negotiate the detail of with the successful applicant.

You can find the full details of the Digital Associate role here, alongside information about our Administrator position. And a quick reminder that applications need to be received by 5pm on Monday 12 March.

Good luck!

Posted by Simon Bedford, Hoipolloi's Executive Producer

EDIT: I spotted yesterday on Twitter that someone thought the job required coding skills. Just to say this isn't the case! Some basic knowledge of code might be useful but is not essential - the job instead involves the use of content management systems such as Wordpress. Hope that also helps make things clearer!