Senior Officer, Enterprise & Innovation

Arts Council England has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and skilled candidate to join our inclusive and welcoming teams as Senior Officer, Enterprise & Innovation. This Senior Officer role can be based at any Arts Council office listed above however we are currently supporting a hybrid approach to home/office work. This position offers a salary of £32,615.

Working to both the Director, Business Innovation & Environmental Responsibility and the Director, New Technologies & Innovation and their teams, you will provide project management support for programmes and projects linked to Arts Council’s innovation work. 

You will be working on projects that will support delivery of Arts Council’s Let’s Create strategy, particularly our ambitions to increase the enterprise culture, data culture and digital maturity of arts organisations, museums and libraries.

In your first few weeks as a Senior Officer, Enterprise & Innovation, you can expect to:

Work on Art Council’s Investment Principles and funding programmes linked to Arts Council’s delivery plan. Be involved in work on alternative investment mechanisms such as social impact loans and equity investment and new technologies projects relating to data and digital literacy, digital content production and distribution. Take on project management support and data collection and analysis.

You will have excellent communication skills, have a desire to learn and be confident working on complex, fast moving projects.

Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people, those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are underrepresented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.

Please read our application guidance for further information on the application process

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Job ref: EIN8

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 20 March

1st Interviews: Friday 25 and Monday 28 March.

2nd Interviews: Thursday 31 March.

Senior Officer, Enterprise & Innovation 

Contract: Permanent, working 35 hours per week 

Salary: £32,615 per annum, plus excellent benefits

Location: Any Arts Council offices in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol, Cambridge or Brighton