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Join the dynamic Advocacy and Communications team at Arts Council England and help shape the narrative of arts and culture.
Overview
Salary
£32974
Location
London, UK - Hybrid
Expires
Expires at anytime
Arts Council England is a leading organization dedicated to promoting the arts and culture across the nation. As an advocate for the enrichment of life through artistic experiences, the council provides support for a diverse array of activities in the arts, museums, and libraries. This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a team that values creativity and cultural development, working towards ensuring that everyone has access to transformative artistic experiences.
- Develop and implement communication strategies alongside a dedicated team.
- Manage internal and external communication channels, highlighting local arts and culture activities.
- Create compelling digital content and manage social media platforms to engage with audiences.
- Act as a media liaison, maintaining the organization's positive reputation.
- Evaluate the impact of communication efforts and adapt strategies accordingly.
- Provide communications support to leadership and coordinate events and briefings.
- Proven experience in communications or related field.
- Strong writing, digital content creation, and media relations skills.
- Ability to strategize and evaluate communication efforts.
- Experience in stakeholder management and event planning.
- Commitment to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Arts Council England is an inclusive employer offering competitive benefits, including hybrid and flexible working arrangements, a generous leave allowance, and a final salary pension scheme. If you require any adjustments during the application process, they welcome your requests. Discover more about the benefits here.
Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people’s lives. We support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to digital art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections.
We are looking for a talented and experienced communications professional to work within the London and South East Advocacy and Communications team. Reporting to the Head of Advocacy and Communications, London & South East your main responsibilities will include: supporting the development, implementation and monitoring of the Area’s communications strategy and will help to deliver the wider organisation’s communications strategy, ensuring that the reputation of the organisation is protected at all times.
You will be maintaining and updating Arts Council England’s internal and external communications channels with information relating to local activities, and delivering Area announcements, including writing and distributing press releases, creating digital content and stakeholder messages, to advocate for the value of arts and culture to key stakeholders.
You will also assist with the management, evaluation and assessment of the impact and delivery of online content; media and PR; stakeholder management; and events and briefings, helping to instigate appropriate change in response to that evaluation. You will provide day-to-day communications support to the leadership team and other colleagues.
You will act as the first point of contact for media enquiries and as a source of knowledge and expertise on Arts Council England’s funding portfolio and activity. You will assist in planning and event management of briefings and events held locally and contribute to social media platforms, creating digital content, and using tools to interact, communicate, inform and empower audiences.
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.
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.
