Location: St James’s Square, London SW1 or remote
Status: PAYE or Contract
Salary band: £120 / per day worked
Duration: 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026)
Deadline for applications: Sunday 13 July 2025 (at midnight)
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 complete an application form including the Library's equal opportunities monitoring form - available below - and email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Candidate Information Pack (including job description)
Deadline for applications: Sunday 13 July (by midnight)
The Library welcomes applications from all sections of the community and all applicants will be considered on the basis of their merits and abilities for the post. Please note we are only able to consider candidates with a current right to work in the UK.
