Work With Us / Festival Press Office Staff
Press Office - Job Description
The Press Office is managed by a small, dedicated team of people who provide an essential link between the Pleasance, our visiting companies and the world’s media.
You are responsible for answering press phone calls, dealing with face to face enquiries and troubleshooting when necessary. The team process ticket requests for journalists from national, international and local publications, websites, television and radio for Pleasance shows and manage the broadcasting/ filming/ photography diary for all Pleasance sites.
As the central point of contact for all media it is essential for the press team to become very familiar, very quickly with the year’s programme, our performers and companies, and the visiting members of the press. You will need to digest the latest news coming from across the Pleasance site and be proactive in pushing this out to the media.
In this busy environment you should have the ability to stay calm, professional and friendly whatever is going on around you. An ability to multitask and prioritise your workload is a must. Prior experience of working in a press office or within a media environment is desirable, but not essential.
