Marketing Assistant


Join the Book Festival’s 2025 Marketing Team for an exciting chance to make a significant impact as Marketing Assistant.
This role is an excellent opportunity for someone to gain a broad range of marketing experience, driving sales within the supportive structure of an highly experienced team, as we innovate and develop our marketing and branding to respond to the needs of our organisational ambitions.

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Opportunities

  • Sponsorship Officer
    Apply before 10:00am on Thursday, 20th February 2025

    Join the Book Festival’s high-performing Development (fundraising) team for an exciting chance to make a significant impact as Sponsorship & Partnerships Officer. You will be responsible for managing an agreed portfolio of cash and in-kind sponsors and partners, working with internal teams to ensure agreed benefits are successfully delivered, persuading previous partners to come on board each year, and prospecting for new organisations for the Book Festival to approach. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone to gain a broad range of sponsorship and partnership experience, driving growth within the supportive structure of an highly experienced team, as we innovate and develop our sponsorship offer to respond to the needs of our organisational ambitions.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland's capital city. Biennial at first, the Book Festival became a yearly celebration in 1997. Throughout its history, the Book Festival has grown in size and scope becoming one of the largest public celebrations of words and ideas in the world. Today, the Festival programmes around 600 events for adults, children and schools each August and produces a wide-ranging Communities Programme across the year. 

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