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Head of Editorial Content

Salary £56,000
Location London
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

The Royal Academy of Arts has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Editorial Content to join our Content, Campaigns and Communications team.  

Leading the editorial and content strategy for the RA’s owned channels and quarterly print, the Head of Editorial Content will expand the RA’s reach to new audiences and build relationships and loyalty with the RA’s existing audiences through creative, high-quality and engaging editorial content.

This role will embed content as a central element of comms, working with colleagues on a collaborative, streamlined and audience-centred approach to reaching and engaging the public.

About You 

To be considered for this role, you will have significant experience defining the editorial direction for an organisation’s owned channels, including website, email and social media as well as experience and understanding of working with and editing print publications, with in-depth knowledge of print production processes.

Proven experience growing audiences and audience engagement is essential as is an audience and data centric approach to working, with demonstrable experience of measuring the success of content and using data analysis to inform decision making.

Effectively leading, managing and inspiring a cross-function team will be second nature and you will be able to effectively influence stakeholders and bring them along with new ways of thinking and doing.  

The Company

The RA dates way back to 1768 when a group of artists and architects persuaded King George lll to help them to ‘establish a society for promoting the Art of Design'. The original academy, in Pall Mall, was less than 10 meters long. Since then, there have been many changes, though the RA’s core purpose of bringing art and design to a broad audience and championing art and artists still holds true.   

Today we are a contemporary art organisation hosting internationally acclaimed exhibitions and through investment in employee training and development, with courses such as Unconscious Bias, LGBTQ+ Awareness, Bystander, and Mental Health First Aid training, we are striving to foster a safe space for everyone through positive action. We also have Employee Network Groups, Ways In Groups, and an Employee Council so every employee has a voice and a way to feel heard by colleagues through the CEO.   

The RA is truly a unique place, both as an attraction to our visitors, but also as a workplace. Our people are at the heart of all we do, and we support a broad and inspiring mix of departments; from exhibitions, curators, art handlers, researchers, publishers, and digital to schools and education, visitor welcome, fundraisers, and corporate support.   

The Benefits

Exhibitions

Reciprocal Agreements with galleries across the UK

Enhanced Pension

Generous employer contributions

Enhanced Holiday

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Wellbeing

Access to a virtual GP Service and Mental Health First Aiders

Agile Working

The opportunity to work flexibly

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Employee Clubs

Football, Staff Choir and more

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