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We’re hiring: Marketing & Communications Officer
Everyone belongs at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. That’s our campaign, and it’s also how we want to work. Do you get goosebumps when the lights go down? Do you look around the room and wonder who’s missing? Then we’re looking for you.
Who we are
We’re Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, or simply ITA. We’re a world-renowned theatre company led by Eline Arbo, and our shows play in our own house, across the Netherlands and around the world. We’re more than a company, though. We’re everyone on stage and behind the scenes at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. In our home on the Leidseplein we host theatre makers and companies from the Netherlands and abroad whose work matters: timely, urgent and boundary-pushing.
Our audience comes from everywhere, and Amsterdam is at the heart of who we are. We want to be a theatre where lots of Amsterdammers feel at home. Our Marketing & Communications team plays a big part in that. We get our shows, stories and unexpected encounters in front of as many people as possible, and we keep looking for new ways to find audiences, keep them and keep them excited.
What you’ll do
Within the team, your focus is the house: everything there is to experience at Stadsschouwburg. You make sure the building and everything happening in it is impossible to miss, you communicate clearly, and you make everyone feel welcome. That’s how new people keep finding their way in.
You’re the go-to marketing and comms contact for a number of the visiting companies that perform with us. You work with their marketers on visibility, media buying and joint campaigns, with one aim: full houses and an audience that keeps growing.
You’re also the marketer for The Bookshop, our cultural living room: a space for experiments, conversation and the unexpected. That’s where you reach new audiences, especially young Amsterdammers who go to clubs, festivals and exhibitions but have never seen a show at Stadsschouwburg. You know campaigns alone won’t win them over. So you build a community, online and offline, so people come back and bring their friends.
And when our rentals team hosts a big event, like the Boekenbal, an awards show or a premiere, you’re their point person for the comms. Together with your team you’re working towards one goal: a Stadsschouwburg that’s buzzing, with full houses and an audience that gets more diverse every season.
In practice, that means you:
- Come up with, build and launch campaigns online and offline, and make sure we show up where our new audiences already hang out
- Build and keep up relationships with company marketers, communities, media partners and agencies
- Develop campaigns and brief designers, both in-house and at agencies
- Run briefings, media buying and print from start to finish
- Track and analyse your results, and adjust course when needed
- Help shape ITA’s big moments, like the season launch, festival announcements and the quarterly programme
Your team
You’ll join a professional, driven and fun team of marketers, a digital strategist, a data analyst and designers. Everyone knows their role, which means you get room to do yours. We expect you to set your own course, make decisions and get things done. And when you want someone to think things through with, there’s always someone around.
About you
- You’ve shown you can reach an audience and get people moving. We don’t care if you did that at a theatre, an agency, a festival, in a community or somewhere else entirely.
- You know how to build and grow a community, online and offline.
- You know today’s Amsterdam: its neighbourhoods, its scenes and the people who set the tone. And you know how to reach them.
- You make communication everyone can see themselves in. You spot right away who’s missing from an image, a text or a media plan, and you fix it.
- You’re great to work with. Companies and colleagues love working with you because you turn their questions into a plan, and then you deliver it.
- You work independently, take ownership and keep several projects going at once without breaking a sweat.
- You write and speak excellent Dutch and English.
Your background doesn’t fit the usual mould, but you recognise yourself in this profile? Then we especially want to meet you. Convince us.
What we offer
- A workplace in the heart of Amsterdam, in a building where something happens every night
- Access to more than 500 shows a year
- Salary in line with the CAO Toneel en Dans (scale V, €2,897 to €4,221 gross per month)
- A one-year contract for 32 hours a week
- Plenty of room to grow and take courses or training
- The option to swap official public holidays for the celebrations and days of remembrance that match your background or beliefs
Our competency question
We want to assess everyone fairly and equally. That’s why we select on competencies, so unconscious bias has less room to play a role. Every candidate answers the same question using the STARR method.
Your question:
Tell us about a time you demonstrably reached and brought in a new audience. Who were you trying to reach, and what was your goal? How did you go about it? What did it deliver (in numbers, if you can)? What trade-off did you have to make: what did you leave aside, or what couldn’t you do? And what would you do differently next time?
Apply in 3 steps
- Write a motivation
- Upload your CV
- Answer the competency question
Apply before the 2nd of December using the button below.
First-round interviews are on 7 and 10 December. The second round is on 17 December.
Questions?
Want to know more about the role? Get in touch with Evelien ter Ellen, Head of Marketing & Communications, at evelien.terellen@ita.nl.