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Head of Programme & Practice, Rural Arts

  •  Yorkshire
  •  Â£30k-40k (pro rata)
  •  Part time
  •  Closes August 31, 2025
  •  NA
  • #Charity

Description

Job Description

Rural Arts is seeking an imaginative and successful creative professional to take Rural Arts' creative programme into a new era. Building upon the history of multiple projects, we are now looking for the right person to bring those programmes together, celebrate their uniqueness and begin to explore how their commonality can be shared across North Yorkshire to improve the quality of the sector.

This role is suited for a dynamic leader, who will lead by example, willing to discuss and persuade stakeholders in seeking brilliance amongst the county. With a small creative ecosystem, this role will work with the CEO to address the inequity to culture, and to funding in rural areas to improve life chance in North Yorkshire.

You must be an open, transparent, and fair leader, who makes the most of resources, both in programme and practise. This role is perfect for someone who wants to change and innovate existing ideas of participation.

Hours: 30 per week

Job Requirements

The following criteria are essential for the role.

  • Developing and delivering art* programmes or projects with communities at the heart of them. (*any form, Rural Arts is a cross art form organisation)
  • Managing multiple programmes with a range of delivery partners and organisations.
  • Using effective monitoring and evaluation methodology to inform practice and future programme.
  • Strong sense of equity in the creative sector.

The following criteria are desirable for the role;

  • Demonstrable experience of fundraising for programmes and projects.
  • Experience of managing staff, freelancers and volunteers
  • Understanding the cultural landscape, its challenges and opportunities across North Yorkshire.

Job Responsibilities

  • Equitable programming in North Yorkshire and creating a strategy for the programming of Creative Ageing, On Tour, Skills & Training and Courthouse programme.
  • Developing new localities-based creativity, building on successes, and seeking new opportunities to celebrate creativity, all within Rural Arts creative methodology (to be developed by this role).
  • Research and develop the creation of the new Training programme, developing methodology based on Rural Arts previous successful work and working with the Training and Skills Manager, and partners to roll this out across North Yorkshire.
  • Develop holistic Monitoring & Evaluation framework for Rural Arts, bringing together all funded requirements into one structure, maintaining that data is being used, monitored, and used by Managers in developing their programmes.
  • Represent Rural Arts at strategic creative networks, including, but not limited to Rural Touring, creative steering groups and events.

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How to Apply

Please send your application to [email protected] by 12:00 pn on Sunday 31st August 2025

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