Background to Role: Digital Communications Manager (Good Relations) *Maternity Cover
Who are we? Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland’s leading creative media arts centre. More than 120,000 people a year benefit from the Nerve Centre’s wide-ranging programme of arts events, cutting edge projects, creative learning centres and state-of-the-art production facilities. A successful social economy enterprise, the Nerve Centre employs more than 50 staff at sites in Derry~Londonderry and Belfast. Click here to watch an overview of the activity across the organisation
Vision Changing lives through creative technologies and the arts.
Mission Providing meaningful engagement with creative technologies and the arts for young people and communities. Creating world-class collaborations and partnerships. Increasing access to and participation in life-changing creative opportunities.
Our Communications and Digital Content Team You will be managing our communications and digital content team which has produced award-winning work for high profile digital and social media campaigns: Check out some below!
Derry Halloween
Youth 19
LegenDerry Food
Digital campaign for Derry City & Strabane District Council Festival
Digital campaign for Derry City & Strabane District Council Initiative
Digital Campaign for LegenDerry Food network launch
Making the Future Project Making the Future is a major cross-border culture project by a consortium of leading organisations - Nerve Centre, National Museums NI, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and Linen Hall Library (www.makingthefuture.eu) Throughout the project, 5000+ participants from different community backgrounds will be brought together to interrogate and re-imagine collections through creative arts and digital technologies. Results will be viewed by 100,000+ people who will participate in exhibitions, events and workshops. You will be the project communications lead which will include writing press releases, updating the website, using social media to recruit participants on programmes and devising innovative web, digital and social media campaigns.
What to expect Our Digital Communications Manager has designed and delivered many exciting campaigns for a number of our good relations projects. Check some out below:
CultureLab is Making the Future’s latest exciting exhibition at the Ulster Museum which features the famous ‘Derry Girls’ blackboard. The exhibition explores cultural stereotypes and poses questions around issues of culture and identity. Explore the digital version of the exhibition here
Postcards from the Edge - one of Making the Future’s many online programmes as a result of Covid. The creative outputs by the participants were showcased on social media, turned into an online exhibition and a short film on the programme was produced.
Good Relations Week Campaign - a week long digital campaign of events and showcases as part of Community Relations Councils Good Relations Week.
What’s upcoming for 2021 You will be involved in many upcoming exciting projects such as: ●
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Launch of our new Making the Future exhibition in Ulster Museum ‘Collecting the Past: Making the Future’ which will require a digital campaign Delivery of the #StorySoFar campaign for Nerve Centre which will launch our new website which is currently in development. Development of Making the Future website showcasing our exhibitions …and much more!
If you are passionate about creating content, multi-tasking across multiple projects and have an interest in good relations work – we want to hear from you!
How to apply Get in touch with recruitment@nervecentre.org with any questions and to request an application form - please specify Digital Communications Manager as we have multiple roles advertised at any one time. Application deadline is 10.00am Monday 19th April. Note, applications submitted after this will not be considered.