Relationship Manager, Communities and Engagement (NM19), Arts Council England

As a Relationship Manager, you will play a key role in delivering our strategy, Let's Create, supporting our ambition for a country transformed by creativity and culture.

Relationship Managers play a key role in supporting a thriving cultural sector by working closely with funded organisations, creative practitioners and local partners. You will help guide investment, monitor performance, offer developmental support and champion the value of creativity and culture. The role involves building strong, trust-based relationships, understanding local cultural ecology, and ensuring our strategic ambitions are delivered across communities.

A significant part of this role will involve supporting our Creative People and Places (CPP) programme. CPP focuses on increasing participation in creativity and culture in areas where engagement is below the national average. It empowers communities to shape the cultural activity they want to experience, placing local people at the heart of decision-making. The programme supports long-term collaboration between communities, artists and organisations, and is made possible through National Lottery funding.

If you were currently doing this job, here are some of the areas you would have been working on in a standard week:
Giving funding advice, assessing grant applications, understanding project information, and monitoring the performance of funded organisations and projects including National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) and Creative People and Places (CPP) programmes
Analysing financial information, identifying investment risks, and providing feedback to applicants
Sharing your expertise and advocating internally and externally related to Communities and Engagement as well as working outside your specialism on a range of Arts Council initiatives
Supporting the Arts Council's place-based approach by undertaking development activities in designated Priority Places