Figurative
- Contact name: Nick Wilsdon
- Contact email: [email protected]
Job Description
Figurative is an independent charity dedicated to impact, investment and innovation in the cultural and creative sector. We bring together deep expertise through Arts & Culture Finance (formerly part of Nesta) and New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture to unlock new and innovative ways of funding and supporting the UK’s arts ecosystem.
Figurative manages three investment portfolios that have supported over 60 organisations and raised more than £30 million in investment capital over the last decade.
We believe arts and culture have the power to transform lives and communities. Our mission is to ensure cultural and creative organisations can thrive, test bold ideas, and build sustainable futures.
The Role
The Impact Assistant is a new role at Figurative that will primarily support work on the Arts & Culture Impact Fund (“ACIF”), an £18m social investment fund which seeks to enable enterprising arts, culture and heritage organisations to fulfil their missions through the use of flexible and risk-tolerant finance. The Impact Assistant will also contribute to Figurative’s emerging advisory work, providing impact development support to the creative and cultural sector.
What We Offer
- Salary: £30,000 FTE depending on experience
- Location: Hybrid working arrangement based at Somerset House in central London, with flexibility and some travel within the UK
- Hours: 4 days/week (0.8 FTE)
- Reports to: Impact Lead
- Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + ability to buy additional holiday(pro rata for part time employees)
- Pension (Employer Contribution 8% + a further 4% where the employee contributes 4%)
- Life Assurance
- Post probation – Private health and dental insurance
Job Requirements
The role requires a self-starting and curious individual, with enthusiasm and commitment to growing social impact through arts, culture, heritage and social enterprise more broadly. Including the following:
Experience
- Practical experience supporting the delivery of projects or programmes, including the co-ordination of timelines, meetings and actions
- Experience in maintaining trackers or workplans across multiple workstreams
- Exposure to data collection, cleansing and analysis through different methods, such as evaluation scales, surveys or interviews
- Desirable: Experience facilitating workshops and group discussions, particularly relating to social impact to develop and embed monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches
- Desirable: professional or lived experience of the transformative social impact of arts & culture
- Desirable: experience of working with arts & cultural sector organisations
- Desirable: experience of social impact investing, in any capacity
Job Responsibilities
The demands of this role will be both fund (ACIF) specific and general to Figurative. You will play an important role in assessing and understanding the social impact enabled through ACIF. In particular, this includes:
- Providing administrative support in the monitoring of impact delivery and reporting requirements across a portfolio of investments to ensure requirements are met in a timely manner
- Working closely with Figurative’s Impact Lead and wider Investment team to develop new investment proposals to the ACIF investment committee
- Contributing to assessments of the expected impact of each investment proposal as part of the social impact due diligence process
- Supporting Figurative’s Impact Lead in the capacity development work of ACIF applicants and investees through a combination of desk research, face-to-face conversations and workshop facilitation to produce social impact related out outputs.
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