Part-Time Communications Officer

The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting for a part-time Communications Officer to run our day-to-day social media outreach and communications to support our ongoing programme of events, workshops, publications, prizes, and fundraising initiatives. The Communications Officer will also build the PTC’s social media presence, drawing on our archive of translated poetry, pictures, video, and audio files to create posts that support the PTC’s mission to bring translated poetry and multilingual creativity to mainstream audiences in the UK.

The PTC has an ongoing presence on Facebook, BlueSky, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Programmes to populate the PTC’s social media accounts with enticing branded content, working from an overall communication strategy devised by the PTC’s director and the Head of Programmes, while responding to requests and opportunities as they arise.

The role will involve writing posts for several social media platforms, honing the messaging of each post to engage the PTC’s different audiences, as well as creating branded posts for each platform, working from PTC design templates and established style guides. The role holder will monitor the PTC’s social media feeds and engage positively with audiences and partner organisations online. They will also be responsible for gathering relevant engagement data from each social media platform and compiling it to assist with evaluation and reporting

A typical day at this job may involve some time attending team meetings to get a sense of the bigger picture, or looking at the communications aspect of a bigger project, and one-to-one meetings with your line manager to review strategies and messaging. The majority of your time will be spent independently creating and posting online content.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver campaigns to support events, books, prizes, and fundraising initiatives
• Create and publish posts on all our social media accounts
• Monitor the PTC’s social media platforms
• Draw on PTC books and the poetry archive to create regular poetry posts
• Create social media reels and stories from photos & recordings of the PTC’s ongoing activities
• Use PTC brand assets consistently throughout all of the above
• Gathering and compiling engagement data from the PTC’s social media accounts

Person Specification

Essential

• Proven experience with social media
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent written communication skills
• Familiar with the Google Workspace range of tools, including Drive, Sheets, and Docs
• Ability to work independently and flexibly as part of a small team.
• Enthusiasm for poetry, translation, and multilingual creativity

Desirable

• Familiarity with the UK’s poetry or translation scene
• Experience with Canva Design Suite
• Experience with simple video editing tools
• Experience with online marketing
• Knowledge of Google Analytics

Terms

• Salary: £27,300 pro rata (£105 per day)
• Hours: minimum 1 day (7 hours) per week; additional hours by mutual agreement during busy periods
• Location: flexibility to work from home or at the office at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
• Contract: fixed-term until 30 April 2028
• Deadline: Midnight Sunday, August 2nd 2026