The British Council was founded to create ‘a friendly knowledge and understanding’ between the people of the UK and wider world by making a positive contribution to the countries we work with, and in doing so making a lasting difference to the UK’s international standing, prosperity and security. The programmes we use to do this are wide-ranging and cover the arts, education, English, science and society.
The Team
British Council works with Scotland and our global network to promote and project the best of education in Scotland and arts across the world and to ensure that Scotland informs – and benefits from – British Council’s global programmes.
The Opportunity
We have an excellent opportunity for an Arts Officer Edinburgh to provide logistical and administrative support to Head of Arts, in the delivery of activities, projects and programmes in the arts sector and associated communications and finances. The main focus of the role is to take the lead in supporting Head of Arts to build and develop relationships with the arts sector that are consistent with Scotland’s ambitions and cultural distinctiveness on the international stage and with the Council’s cultural relations mission.
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following essential knowledge & experience:
- Positively influences all customers about British Council.
- Supports the development of products, services, projects & activities for target groups
- Establishes systems to collect and analyse customer and market info.
- Clear and effective communicator
- Good business and report writing skills
- Develops, implements and evaluates an effective communication strategy and plan.
- Good understanding of project identification processes and communication with stakeholders.
- Undertakes assigned role in project delivery to stakeholder’s satisfaction, contributing to development and implementation of project plan.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting experience.
Some of the main opportunities/challenges include: (Please see Role Profile for full details of the duties)
- Working in organisational/support role with financial responsibilities
- Working independently with limited or remote supervision and taking or escalating decisions appropriately
- Using practical knowledge of the arts sector in Scotland
Equality Comment & Equality of Opportunity (UK)
Valuing diversity is essential to the British Council’s work. We aim to abide by and promote equality legislation by following both the letter and the spirit of it to try and avoid unjustified discrimination, recognising discrimination as a barrier to equality of opportunity, inclusion and human rights. All staff worldwide are required to ensure their behaviour is consistent with our policies.
The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and is keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within the organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. In line with the British Council’s Child Protection policy, any appointment is contingent on thorough checks. In the UK, and in other countries where appropriate systems exist, these include criminal records checks.
For further information please see the documents below:
Benefits
- Generous pension
- 32 days annual leave
- Flexible working policy
- Childcare vouchers
- Season ticket loan
Region UK
Country Scotland
Location Edinburgh
Department UK Region
Job Category Arts
Pay Band Pay Band 6
Vacancy Description Region: UK Country: Scotland Department: UK Region Job Category: Full Time Location: Edinburgh Pay Band: 6
The closing date is Sunday 7th May 2017 at 23:59pm UK time and we are looking to schedule the interviews for 22nd May.