Senior Art, Culture and Design Manager

Senior Arts, Culture and Design Manager

We are recruiting for Senior Arts, Culture and Design Manager for a 6 month contract. This is a hybrid role where you will be required to attend the Birmingham or London office 2 days per week.

As a Senior Arts, Culture and Design Manager, you will need to have/be:

• Relevant art degree or masters qualification or equivalent experience in curating public art gained though working on major projects
• Knowledge of current cultural policy, place making, and socially engaged creative community engagement best practice
• Knowledge current cultural strategy policy
• Understanding of key cultural growth and regeneration delivery, and funding mechanisms in England, and of comparable international models
• Understanding of public art management and maintenance models.
• Knowledge and understanding of arts and culture fundraising, co commissioning models and funding partnership building.
• Curating contemporary art and creative design thinking - ability to assess and provide advice on arts, culture and design approaches and solutions that address corporate design aspirations and vision, standards and guidance
• Expertise curating contemporary art, creative production and best practice in public art commissioning
• Stakeholder Management Skills - ability to develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and communities in challenging circumstances.
• Analytical skills - ability to interpret and respond to changing landscapes, using this knowledge to communicate complex issues
• Presentation skills - ability to communicate and present the Arts and Cultural approach and programme to non-technical stakeholders to build consensus.
• Risks management skills - including the ability to assess, analyse and escalate risk
• Analysis skills - including the ability to input into, compare, assure and provide analysis of information coming from a variety of overlapping design fields of expertise - landscape design, urban integration , architecture, heritage, ecology and sustainability in additional to arts and culture
• Influencing and negotiating skills -senior level internal and external stakeholders on complex stakeholder and technical arts, culture and design decisions
• Project management skills - ability to coordinate and manage multiple work-streams.

Details:

• Salary: £600 - £650 per day (Inside IR35)
• Working Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday
• Location: Hybrid/Birmingham or London
• Duration: 6 month contract

Role of Senior Arts, Culture and Design Manager:

• Curate and commission a series of very high profile permanent and temporary arts and culture commissions and programmes across key sites that deliver the Design Vision, positive stakeholder engagement and Corporate Objectives
• Procure, contract and manage multiple teams of external expert cultural consultants and artists to deliver key art commissions across company assets, working collaboratively with both internal stakeholders and external partners to meet deadlines and budgets
• Manage budgets, tracking and monitoring key progress and outputs.
• Effectively manage complex portfolios of sensitive projects and programmes to meet corporate objectives and the Design Vision.
• Manage and deliver cross discipline partnerships and collaborations across the business (Planning, Commercial Development, Rail Systems, Infrastructure Management and Operations, Engineering and Environment teams, as well as Construction and Delivery Partners, Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) and with key external strategic partners ( Local Authorities, Planning Departments, regional landowners and stakeholder groups) to deliver both legacy projects and positive temporary mitigation.
• Provide specialist knowledge and technical leadership for Arts and Culture and design related disciplines as one of the businesses Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for Arts and Culture
• Deliver presentations to senior management strategic partners, planning authorities, development partnerships and LA's
• Lead procurement, development, and delivery of a bespoke framework of arts and culture contracts for ID.
• Manage the authorisation, delivery and scope of arts and culture commissions and related design work procured under the Arts and Culture team's budget.
• Assist Head of Arts and Culture in scoping, programming, and monitoring implementation of the annual programme of work and in managing the team's budget.