Job Description: SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Fixed term contract: Six months with the potential for extension
Hours of work: 1 day (Seven hours) per week.
Salary: £14.00 per hour.
Responsible to: Marketing & Communications Lead
Locations: In person at Loreburn Hall and online, to be discussed and agreed with the Marketing & Communications Lead.
Background
ARTS D&G presents high quality programmes of performing arts events, participation and development throughout each year across Scotland’s third largest geographic region. Through the theatre, music, dance, film, comedy and spoken word performances and participation we organise and promote, we inspire and connect audiences and participants throughout Dumfries & Galloway with local and national artists’ work, we stimulate meaningful community participation and engagement, and we celebrate the transformative power of the arts. Through our programmes and activities, we also support, nurture and help develop the creative quality, ambition, innovation and skills of performing arts practitioners who live and work in the region.
UP YER AIRTS works with young people and emerging artists across Dumfries and Galloway, providing creative development opportunities, mentoring, and pathways into professional practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Creation of content for ARTS D&G and Up Yer Airts social media, using Canva alongside the Marketing & Communications Lead
- Live content creation at events- taking photos and videos and posting them to update audiences in real time
- Work with the Marketing & Communications Lead to create marketing schedules for Arts Live, Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Up Yer Airts programs and other opportunities our organisation develops
- Copy writing for ARTS D&G and Up Yer Airts social media, in liaison with the Marketing & Communications Lead
- Scheduling of social media (Instagram and Facebook) content, using Meta Business Suite
- Engaging with online audience- replying to comments, messages, liking, sharing partners posts on stories; using Facebook community groups to share information.
- Contact and collate marketing content from performing companies, partner organisations and artists to create promotional material
- Research marketing trends and develop social media channels.
This position is a pilot opportunity for Up Yer Airts and ARTS D&G, to help increase our organisation’s capacity. Other organisations in Dumfries & Galloway may also be interested in buying amounts of the successful applicant’s time to increase their capacity by utilising the social media skills on offer. This would be in addition to this position’s contractual terms and conditions.
While this may be of interest to the successful applicant, this would be a separate contractual arrangement, acceptance of which – or non-acceptance, because of life-work balance – will not affect the selection process in any way. At this stage we only want to highlight this possibility for the position’s further development and expansion.
How to Apply
Please submit:
- A short statement of interest outlining your suitability for the role
- A CV or summary of relevant experience
Deadline: Friday 27th March 2026, 4.00pm.
Equal Opportunities
Arts D&G / Up Yer Airts is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
We welcome applications in alternative formats, such as BSL, braille, sound or video recording, or transcribed by telephone. Please contact us if you are considering making an application in this way, we will work with you to make this process as straightforward for you as possible.
We especially encourage applications from applicants who face marginalisation, including D/deaf people, those with disablements both seen and unseen, LGBTQIA+ people, women, people of colour, working-class, and people from any related background or identity. If you feel you are often excluded from opportunities, we would like to hear from you and support you.
Recruitment
After the applications’ deadline date has passed all applications will be circulated to our selection panel of the Marketing and Communications Lead, Creative Director and CEO.
The selection panel will meet to review applications, draw up a shortlist and invite candidates to attend an interview, ideally face to face at the Loreburn Hall, Dumfries. We will cover all travel costs for shortlisted applicants. However, if for legitimate reasons you cannot come to Dumfries and we would really like to meet you, we will schedule an online interview.
Shortlisted candidates will not be required to make any presentations or provide information additional to that provided in their application and CV. Shortlisted candidates will be asked a series of standardised questions about their skills, expertise and experience.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
