Director, Strategic Partnerships & Place (ARTC48)

You will take on this role mid-way through our 10-year strategy, Let’s Create, and at a pivotal time for the cultural sector, which is facing many challenges and opportunities right across the country. The public sector landscape is also changing, making this an exciting, dynamic environment in which to work.

Our national ambitions for creativity and culture cannot be realised without building, maintaining and expanding relationships across local and national government, strategic and combined authorities, Mayoral teams, with other funders and National Lottery distributors, and with those representing communities across England’s villages, towns, cities.

Key external stakeholder relationships will include government departments, the Local Government Association, other membership bodies, government agencies, Arm’s Length Bodies and National Lottery Distributors.

You will work across the country, across the artforms and disciplines we support, and in service of the widest range of the public and the cultural sector, utilising the skills and expertise of our staff to best effect in our national framework for our place based work and our partnership work.

You will be work closely with our Deputy Chief Executive, Places, Engagement and Libraries, to shape and lead our work in this field, and with two Senior Managers who you will line manage, and who will help to deliver our work. You will also work closely with a range of colleagues, some nationally focussed and some area focussed, to inform, develop and deliver our place based and partnership work. This currently includes our work around devolution, Priority Places and the data tools we develop and share to inform our own and others understanding of culture and place.

The post holder will sit within our Policy Team, led by the Director, Strategy, who will be your line manager. You will work alongside colleagues focusing on Policy, Skills & Workforce and Business Development.