Cricket Ireland is looking to appoint a new Marketing Manager to take the sport through some exciting years that lie ahead and towards the vision of becoming a mainstream sport in Ireland.
The role will carry responsible for the day to day marketing of the sport including tournaments, major events in Ireland and the national teams in the men’s and women’s game that both played in the World T20 finals in India last month.
Find out more about Sports & Tech 16, a major new global gathering of sports and technology leaders coming to Dublin in October 2016.The job advertisement which is posted this morning on the Cricket Ireland website describes the position, which will report directly to commercial director Dennis Cousins as “an exciting role for an individual with a “can do” attitude who is looking for an opportunity to challenge him/herself working in one of Ireland’s fastest growing sports.”
The successful candidate will also have day-to-day responsibility for the running of Irish sport’s second most popular social media platform, with over 500,000 followers across Facebook and twitter.
Sport for Business works closely with Cricket Ireland on a number of initiatives and this is a great opportunity for somebody looking to enter or expand their role within sport in Ireland at a great level.
The key responsibilities as listed on the site include:
- Marketing of cricket towards our vision of being a mainstream sport in Ireland
- Managing and implementing the promotional and marketing strategy for all international and domestic matches and other events staged under the auspices of Cricket Ireland
- Marketing of match tickets, match day inventory and hospitality
- Marketing of Cricket Ireland Membership/Patronage programme including providing regular communication with members
- Working with key Cricket Ireland stakeholders, including commercial and Government partners, to raise awareness of their association with cricket and to deliver value to our partners
- Grow online revenues through the relationship with new and existing partners including online advertising, merchandising and travel partners.
- Coordinate the production of all Cricket Ireland publications including the Annual Report, Annual Magazine, match brochures, fixture cards and membership cards
- Overall responsibility for managing ticketing arrangements for all major home matches and coordinating allocations for overseas events in which Ireland participates
- Work closely with the Cricket Ireland Events Manager when required on event planning and match management with specified events when necessary
- Work closely with sponsors on activation programmes in conjunction with Commercial Director
- Other commercial or marketing activity as appropriate or as directed by line manager and CEO
- Write press releases as necessary in consultation with Media Manager
- Manage Marketing Budget
- Responsible for managing Cricket Ireland website and social media platform. This includes responsibility for management of content on website and social media output with responsibility for website contributor resources and relationships with website partners.
- Manage part –time Web Editor and Social Media Contributors
- Manage Website Budget
Interested applicants should send a CV and a covering letter at the least detailing compliance with the aforementioned skills and experience to Dennis Cousins at info@cricketireland.ie
The closing date for applications is Friday 20th April.
