Marketing Executive (Freelance Casual)

Join The London Library Marketing Executive (Freelance Casual)

• Duration: 12-months (July 2025 June 2026)

Hours: Anticipated 2 days/week in 2025/26 and 1 day/week in 2026/27. Working patterns to be mutually agreed upon appointment

• Status: PAYE or Contract
• Salary band: £120/per day worked
• Location: St James s Square, London SW1 or Remote
• Reports to: Head of Marketing and Communications
• Closing date: Sunday 13 July 2025 @ midnight

Interviews: w/c 14 July 2025

About The London Library

The London Library is one of the UK s greatest literary institutions, providing a centre of creativity, inspiration and ideas for over 180 years. Well-known members and frequent borrowers have included Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, Daphne du Maurier, TS Eliot, Muriel Spark, Angela Carter, AS Byatt, and Ian Fleming. 13 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have been members. Current writers in membership include Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Sir Tom Stoppard, Raymond Antrobus, Sir Simon Schama, Jessie Burton and Sarah Waters. Nearly all of its collection of around one million books can be borrowed with around 5,000 new books being added each year. It also offers a vast eLibrary and invaluable postal loans service. The Library is a membership library and charity, and is championed by its President, Helena Bonham Carter CBE.

About the role

We have an exciting, fixed term opportunity for a Marketing Executive (Freelance or Casual) to provide backfill support to the Marketing and Communications team during delivery of another project, which will contribute to membership growth and revenue for the Library. In this pivotal role you will:

support the Library s marketing and communications team

increase awareness of the Library and grow membership

implement the Library s digital communications strategy, creating content and growing and engaging audiences

About you

You are an experienced and self-motivated professional with:

Social media management experience, including growing and engaging audiences, and preferably from an arts/cultural or charity organisation

Knowledge and experience of digital communications and content creation across a variety of channels including copy, visuals, and video, and analysing its performance

Experience of digital marketing techniques and software including email software, CRM, and Google Analytics

Experience of growing membership, visitors, or income

High-level interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a variety of people

Highly organised with a creative flair, and attention to detail

Personal attributes include:

• Being pleasant, approachable, and helpful, even under pressure.
• A flexible attitude and adaptable to change

Self-motivated and dedicated, with a willingness to collaborate as needed.

Why Join Us?

We are a friendly, hardworking team and a welcoming workplace that supports flexible working. We aim to be as inclusive and equitable as possible and can discuss specific adjustments and access needs to help make this role fit for you.

If you are excited by the opportunity to use your communication skills to tell the world about The London Library, we would love to hear from you. To apply please visit our website via the link and complete the online application form.

Please note:

We can only consider candidates with the right to work in the UK.

We reserve the right to shorten or extend the closing date of any position where a high or low volume of suitable applications are received. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, an early application would be encouraged.