Freelance Culture Writer/Editor (fixed-term mandate) - Media Jobs

Steps is the biennial dance festival of Migros-Kulturprozent and brings international as well as Swiss contemporary dance productions to the whole of Switzerland for four weeks. For the next edition (2 to 26 March 2028) - which at the same time represents the 40th anniversary of the festival - we are looking for you: a culture writer who prepares artistic content so that it is accessible, clear, and appealing to a broad audience. With your texts, you shape how Steps is read, understood, and experienced. Your tasks You develop texts for different formats and target groups: • Program texts for productions and companies • Short versions in simple language • Website, newsletter, and PR texts • Press releases, editorials, as well as flyer and framework program texts You work closely to the content: • you review productions and materials • you exchange ideas with the program team, festival management, and companies You do not write for a specialist audience, but for people with different approaches to dance. What you bring with you • Experience in cultural journalism, editorial writing • a very good sense for clear, accessible, and precise language and different target groups. • you can translate complex content so that it is understandable even without prior knowledge • Experience with web and newsletter texts • Confidence in working with feedback and iterative processes • German (proficient in writing) • English (for exchange with international companies) • French is an advantage (for exchange with international or national companies) How you work You can: • quickly grasp what a subject is about • find the right tone for different target groups • work clearly and in a structured manner even under time pressure Framework • Fixed-term mandate: September 2026 - end of March 2028 • Project-based collaboration with more intensive working phases. The workload of the mandate mostly moves between 10% and 15% per quarter, with a peak of approx. 20% in autumn/winter 2026 and no workload in Q1/27. • Located within Communications Management in coordination with the program team and festival management Application Please send us • a short cover letter • CV or portfolio • 2-3 text samples from the cultural sector (various formats welcome, e.g., program text, article, newsletter) Process • 13 July 2026 Application deadline • 23 July 2026 Sending of interview invitations • 27.-29 July 2026 Interviews (online or on-site) The process also includes a compact written task, which will be sent together with the interview invitation. Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application via email to services.gesellschaftundkultur@mgb.ch. For questions, Barbara Brandmaier, Communications Management Steps, will be happy to assist you via email until 30 June 2026.