Arts Council England is seeking applicants for a Relationship Manager, Creative Media for twelve months. Based in the Brighton office, you will manage relationships with a range of organisations predominantly visual arts focus, though your Creative Media work will spread across artforms.

We use the term ‘creative media’ to refer to artistic and cultural works and content created with new technology, and/or for digital platforms and/or for digital distribution. As such, you will need to keep up to date with new developments in technology - and the opportunities and challenges these may bring to the arts and every-day life – inputting this knowledge into the Arts Council’s funding programmes and national agendas

Required skills, knowledge and behaviour:
– You will need to have experience of working in one or more of our artforms or cross-cutting policy areas and with arts and cultural organisations at senior level.
– You will also need to have a good understanding of organisational dynamics – including business planning, financial reporting, performance management and governance.
– You will need to be effective in developing relationships with organisations at all levels and have the personal credibility, communication and analytical skill to provide advice and support on the artistic and operational challenges they face.
– You will have a good knowledge of grant management and the ability to negotiate with arts and cultural organisations on funding agreements. You will maintain an overview of projects funded to ensure they are meeting our strategic aims.
– You will have willingness to and experience of working beyond your area of expertise across all our policy areas and priorities.
– You must have a good appreciation of the arts and culture sector in England and of the current challenges and opportunities facing it, including the context for public and private sector partnership support.
– You will have an understanding of the Arts Council’s duty as a public body under current equality legislation, the diversity agenda and its relationship to arts and culture.

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