Communications & campaigns manager (part-time)

Closing date for applications: Monday 23rd February 2026

Salary: £37,150 - £38,500 pro-rata

Location: Predominantly remote working. Can be based anywhere in England and Wales, that is accessible for travel to Cardiff and Bradford, which is likely to be approximately once per month

Reporting to: Executive Director

Start Date: Ideally from mid-April 2026

An opportunity to drive advocacy-led communications, amplifying messages from working-class communities and campaign partners.

Common/Wealth is a political theatre company based in Bradford and Cardiff, UK. Our aim is to promote wellbeing and social inclusion through the performing arts, with a focus on people from working-class backgrounds: as collaborators, performers, participants and audiences.

Common/Wealth are seeking an experienced, dynamic Communications & Campaigns Manager (0.6) who will help us tell our story, shape our public-facing communications, and lead on advocacy. The role involves delivering relevant communications campaigns that have a local, national and international impact to gain demonstrable public or targeted awareness of specific social injustices that our creative work shines a light on. You will (co-)manage our two part-time Communications Associates. We’re looking for someone with experience of and passion for calling-out injustices, inequality and oppression and maximising the existing work of our campaign partners.

By ‘campaigns’, we mean: elevating and amplifying our message and those of our collaborators (sometimes who are campaigners or activists); spreading the message of our work far and wide, in person and online, to make real change; and contributing to the continuation of Common/Wealth as a ‘movement’.

What you'll be doing

• Advocacy
• Communications & media
• Research & liaison with collaborators
• Audience development
• Organisational management & development

This is an exciting opportunity for a communications specialist who shares our passion for countering injustice, especially for working-class people.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Demonstrable understanding of social injustices facing particularly working-class/intersectional communities in the UK and awareness of comparable international injustices
• 3 or more years’ proven experience developing and delivering successful advocacy/communications campaigns
• An understanding of ‘campaigning’
• Proven leadership of communications/advocacy campaigns with measurable outcomes, contributing to organisational success
• Experience of representing organisations
• Experience of leading on successful press/PR campaigns for projects
• Excellent English language and copy-editing skills with the ability to ensure the delivery of powerful content for a wide range of audiences
• Strong visual aesthetic
• Good collaborative skills, with an ability to lead cross-organisational initiatives, working with people across a wide range of functions and perspectives
• Experience of managing projects and managing/ monitoring budgets
• Experience of line management, with the ability to motivate and inspire others
• Experience of using digital platforms to contribute to advocacy/communications campaigns •
• Experience of collating and analysing data
• Belief in the power of activism, public campaigning, and in the importance of political and public engagement to achieve change
• An organised self-starter, with attention to detail and comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, and self-administrating
• Adaptability
• An enthusiastic leader and team player who enjoys sharing learning and developing others
• A willingness to travel in the UK for collaborative working in person, and to support project campaigns

Desirable

• Experience of, or interest in contemporary theatre or the arts
• Experience of working bilingually
• Welsh speaker, learner or someone with an appetite to learn
• Experience of rebranding
• Experience of commissioning websites

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.