Job Details
Senior Relationship Manager, North (NN4)
Contract: Permanent, working 35 hours per week (Arts Council also recognises the benefit of flexible working as a valued part of the way we work, and welcome applications from individuals who require flexibility)
Salary: £46,709 per annum plus benefits including a final salary pension scheme, generous annual leave, and flexible and hybrid working.
Location: Newcastle (The role will be based at the office base listed; however, we are operating a hybrid way of working and support our staff to make use of remote working options when combined with regular on-site contact days with other members of the team, normally 1-2 days a week)
Introduction:
Are you driven to develop creativity and access to culture? If you share our passion and ambition, we'd love you to join us as a Senior Relationship Manager, based in the North East!
Arts Council is the national development agency in England for Creativity and Culture. We invest public money from government and the National Lottery to make sure everyone's creativity is given the chance to flourish and we all have access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We support individual artists and organisations working across museums, libraries, dance, theatre, music, literature, visual arts and combined arts; and people and communities who are working with them. We work alongside Councils, Universities, community groups, other lottery distributors and funders and have 10 offices across England, as local working is important to us.
Role details:
In this role as a Senior Relationship Manager in the North Area, you can expect to:
You will have relevant experience in line management, enjoy partnership working and be passionate about the difference arts, culture, and creativity can make to people's lives. You will also have relationship or stakeholder management experience, as well as an understanding of place-based working. At Arts Council England, we are looking for people who reflect the country's diversity today to help us shape and change the arts and cultural sector to make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities, and places we serve.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Statement: Arts Council are committed to building an inclusive employer and workplace and recruiting a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve. However, you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply for a role at Arts Council.
If there are any adjustments that would help support you in your application, please do let us know when you apply. If you are disabled Evenbreak are able to provide support with your application, for further information please visit their website at here
Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people and those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are underrepresented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.
About us: Arts Council offers a range of benefits to our employees including hybrid and flexible working, a generous annual leave allowance and the Arts Council Retirement Plan - a final salary scheme. To find out more, click here.
Our Code of Ethics requires that employees of the Arts Council are not able to receive an Arts Council grant, investment or loan funding - either in person, as a member of a partnership, or for any organisation they own. There are also limitations on board or CEO positions employees can hold in organisations we fund. For more information on this, please talk to the recruiting manager or contact recruitment@artscouncil.org.uk
We believe our recruitment process should be inclusive and transparent. Find out what to expect with our application guidance and more about our commitment to diversity on our website here.
To view the job description please click here
To view the recruitment pack which outlines more details about working for Arts Council please click here
Job ref: NN4
Closing date: 09:00 am Friday 20 September
1 st Interviews: (virtual) Thursday 03 October
2 nd Interviews: (in person at the Newcastle office) Friday 11 October
Please note: We do NOT accept CVs or cover letters as part of our recruitment process. If you require any documentation in an alternative format, please contact recruitment@artscouncil.org.uk
Contract: Permanent, working 35 hours per week (Arts Council also recognises the benefit of flexible working as a valued part of the way we work, and welcome applications from individuals who require flexibility)
Salary: £46,709 per annum plus benefits including a final salary pension scheme, generous annual leave, and flexible and hybrid working.
Location: Newcastle (The role will be based at the office base listed; however, we are operating a hybrid way of working and support our staff to make use of remote working options when combined with regular on-site contact days with other members of the team, normally 1-2 days a week)
Introduction:
Are you driven to develop creativity and access to culture? If you share our passion and ambition, we'd love you to join us as a Senior Relationship Manager, based in the North East!
Arts Council is the national development agency in England for Creativity and Culture. We invest public money from government and the National Lottery to make sure everyone's creativity is given the chance to flourish and we all have access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We support individual artists and organisations working across museums, libraries, dance, theatre, music, literature, visual arts and combined arts; and people and communities who are working with them. We work alongside Councils, Universities, community groups, other lottery distributors and funders and have 10 offices across England, as local working is important to us.
Role details:
In this role as a Senior Relationship Manager in the North Area, you can expect to:
- Work collaboratively as part of the North Area Management Team to help shape, monitor and manage our grant investments across the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humberside.
- Lead, line manage and support a team of Relationship Managers working across a range of specialisms with artists, communities, arts organisations, museums, libraries
- Work frequently with external stakeholders like Local Authorities, Universities and other funders to support investment, cultural strategy and development in our places of interest
- Contribute broadly across the North and feed into national Arts Council development activities and major projects in your specialist areas of knowledge.
- Work closely with local colleagues from Arts Council and the cultural sector across the North East to support each other and the delivery of Arts Council's 10 year strategy, Let's Create. There is a team of around 26 Arts Council staff across different teams currently based in Newcastle and we are co-located with National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
You will have relevant experience in line management, enjoy partnership working and be passionate about the difference arts, culture, and creativity can make to people's lives. You will also have relationship or stakeholder management experience, as well as an understanding of place-based working. At Arts Council England, we are looking for people who reflect the country's diversity today to help us shape and change the arts and cultural sector to make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities, and places we serve.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Statement: Arts Council are committed to building an inclusive employer and workplace and recruiting a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve. However, you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply for a role at Arts Council.
If there are any adjustments that would help support you in your application, please do let us know when you apply. If you are disabled Evenbreak are able to provide support with your application, for further information please visit their website at here
Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people and those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are underrepresented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.
About us: Arts Council offers a range of benefits to our employees including hybrid and flexible working, a generous annual leave allowance and the Arts Council Retirement Plan - a final salary scheme. To find out more, click here.
Our Code of Ethics requires that employees of the Arts Council are not able to receive an Arts Council grant, investment or loan funding - either in person, as a member of a partnership, or for any organisation they own. There are also limitations on board or CEO positions employees can hold in organisations we fund. For more information on this, please talk to the recruiting manager or contact recruitment@artscouncil.org.uk
We believe our recruitment process should be inclusive and transparent. Find out what to expect with our application guidance and more about our commitment to diversity on our website here.
To view the job description please click here
To view the recruitment pack which outlines more details about working for Arts Council please click here
Job ref: NN4
Closing date: 09:00 am Friday 20 September
1 st Interviews: (virtual) Thursday 03 October
2 nd Interviews: (in person at the Newcastle office) Friday 11 October
Please note: We do NOT accept CVs or cover letters as part of our recruitment process. If you require any documentation in an alternative format, please contact recruitment@artscouncil.org.uk
