Part-Time Relationship Manager Music

Pay band: 7
Location: London, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh
Department: Music
Contract type: Indefinite with Part-Time Contract - 2.5 Days
Closing Date: 11th June 2023 at 23:59 UK Time

2 vacancies available for this role.

You must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.

British Council’s Music team are looking for 2 x Part-Time Music Relationship Managers with extensive UK sector experience and a background in music programme and partnership management. They will play an active role in shaping and delivering international music programmes within the Music Team.

This Music Team role sits within British Council’s Cultural Engagement (CE) portfolio and contributes to delivering our vision and five-year arts strategy across British Council global priority regions. CE brings together our portfolio of work in arts, education, English, and research. Our UK arts team works with the arts and culture sector in the UK, and our global network of offices, to achieve significant impact and change by finding new ways of connecting and seeing each other through the arts and music.

• Culture Connects supports artistic and cultural exchange between the UK and countries internationally
• Spotlights on Culture engages and represents the UK’s cultural diversity and creativity at high-profile cultural events
• Creative Economy analyses creative ecosystems and highlights emerging trends and areas of convergence and difference between creative economies
• Arts Responds to Global Challenges celebrates the transformative power of arts and culture to change attitudes and the protection and promotion of cultural expression, diversity and heritage at risk.

The team works across the breadth of the UK music sector to reflect a diverse and exciting range of music from classical and contemporary music to jazz, global music and folk right through to indie, electronica, hip hop and grime. The role will be part of a small UK based programme team, actively connecting with colleagues across the global network to shape and ensure high quality delivery of programmes.

We are looking to secure 2 x Part-Time Music Relationship Manager posts covering a broad but distinct range of music sector specialisms. Both roles will play a valuable part in our mission to support connections between the UK and international music and arts sector to connect, exchange and collaborate internationally. Our work also provides opportunities for the contemporary UK music sector to flourish in the international cultural landscape.

You will work to create a more inclusive and sustainable future through professional exchange and sector development programmes.

Having a vast extensive UK sector experience and a wide network of contacts, as well as knowledge of UK music sector practice and partnership management experience, you will lead and manage a portfolio of UK sector relationships and create opportunities for collaborative international programmes.

You will provide specialist music expertise and programme management support within British Council global teams to ensure the development of high-quality, strategic music programmes as well as developing partnerships based on the British Council global programmes.

Music programmes sit within the arts portfolio of activity, ensuring programmes achieve targets, meet global and local requirements as appropriate and support the British Council’s cultural relations objectives.

• Pro-actively builds professional networks and information channels that maintain an excellent understanding of relevant developments, stakeholders and opinion formers across the entire UK contemporary music sector to support the creation and delivery of high-quality projects/programmes.
• Provides support, expertise and advice to colleagues to ensure high quality music programme content in major arts programmes based on a genuine understanding of the key British Council priorities and best practice within the subject/sector specialism.
• Demonstrates the diversity of the UK Music sector with the team, with knowledge of at least 4 of the following areas within…