Work at Adelaide Fringe

Advertising Sales Coordinator

Applications close: 2 Aug 2026

The Advertising Sales Coordinator supports advertising sales across Adelaide Fringe’s print and digital marketing assets, helping artists, venues, partners and clients boost their visibility, reach audiences and drive ticket sales throughout the festival season.
This role coordinates advertising enquiries, bookings, artwork, campaign delivery and reporting across channels including print, website, eDM, social media and digital screens. It also supports the administration of AVR, Adelaide Fringe’s internal advertising sales platform, ensuring products, specifications, deadlines and campaign requirements are accurate and easy for artists and venues to access.

Working closely with the Marketing & Commercial Manager, Marketing team, Design Studio and Finance team, this role helps deliver advertising revenue targets, strong client service and smooth campaign operations across a fast-paced Fringe season. During the peak delivery season (mid-January – mid-March) this role requires structured out-of-hours work to service artist and venue enquiries and drive advertising sales. The schedule includes adjusted hours (e.g., 11am – 8pm on selected days) and weekend work in place of a regular office day on a rostered basis.

Artist & Venue Coordinator

Applications close: 17 Jul 2026

The Artist and Venue Coordinator is in the Artist & Venue team liaising with and providing support to Adelaide Fringe registered Artists and Venues in the lead up and during festival. This role includes facilitating artist and venue registrations, supporting participation, leading administration and programming of the Professional Development series, delivering the Artist and Venue events program and coordinating the FringeWORKS office move and schedule. The events include networking opportunities for participants in Meet the Community and Meet the Media and creating a schedule of events to be held during festival in collaboration with Marketplace team. This role will be responsible for the FringeWORKS daily program that hosts Professional Development Workshops and Community building events throughout festival, delivering the FringeWORKS set up overseeing office logistics alongside venue management for staff and artists to reside in throughout the festival. Nurturing development and understanding of participation, navigating digital our platforms (AVR & red61), Along with a host of other programs and opportunities to strengthen the Adelaide Fringe experience for artists and venues participating in Adelaide Fringe 2027.

Copywriter

Applications close: 13 Jul 2026

The Copywriter is Adelaide Fringe’s dedicated wordsmith. A versatile, audience-obsessed writer who can shift between long-form editorial, conversion-driven EDM copy, punchy social captions and powerful fundraising impact stories, without breaking stride. This is a specialist craft position for someone who understands that every word is a decision and that great copy changes what people do, not just what they think.

The Copywriter works across the full Adelaide Fringe marketing program, writing for the main festival brand and the Adelaide Fringe Foundation’s philanthropic program and all external key communications. They bring a UX mindset to all content; understanding where audiences are in their journey and writing to move them forward. They write for humans first, but they also know how to structure content that performs in AI-powered search environments.

Adelaide Fringe is Australia’s largest open-access arts festival, a genuine cultural and economic force for South Australia. Our copy needs to match that: bold, inclusive and always honest, written in service of the people who make and experience the Fringe.

Digital Content Coordinator

Applications close: 13 Jul 2026

The Digital Content Coordinator is a production-focused role that brings Adelaide Fringe’s digital content to life. This is a multi-skilled position for someone who loves making things; designing scroll-stopping graphics, editing tight short-form videos, and publishing content with precision timing across multiple platforms. Working closely with the Digital Content Lead, you will execute against the content strategy, maintain the scheduling calendar, support EDM delivery and keep Adelaide Fringe’s digital presence dynamic, consistent and on-brand.

This role suits a creative all-rounder with production and design capability who thrives on variety and takes pride in their craft. You don’t need to be a specialist in everything, but you should be genuinely skilled across design and video editing, comfortable with social media platforms and scheduling tools, and motivated to grow in a fast-moving arts environment.

Digital Content Lead

Applications close: 13 Jul 2026

The Digital Content Lead owns Adelaide Fringe’s social media platform strategy and digital content program. This is a role that demands equal parts creative vision and structural discipline. You will develop platform-specific strategies, lead the content briefing and planning processes, direct content production, and measure what works. You will guide and develop the Digital Content Coordinator and work closely with the wider Marketing team to ensure content is always on-brief, on-brand, and tied to campaign objectives.

This role suits someone who gets genuinely excited about great storytelling and the power of a well-executed platform strategy and who has the organisational nous to build the systems that make it happen consistently. A passion for the arts and creativity is essential; so is the ability to operate strategically and bring structure to a fast-moving, high-volume environment