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.

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2 vacancies are available to hire for this role.

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

About Team:

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.

Our work is delivered through four global programmes:

• 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.

Opportunity:

We are looking to secure 2 x Part-Time Music Relationship Manager posts covering a broad range of music sector specialisms. These roles will support connections between the UK and international music and arts sector, enabling collaboration and professional exchange to promote a more inclusive and sustainable future.

As a Music Relationship Manager you will lead and manage a portfolio of UK sector relationships, creating opportunities for collaborative international programmes and providing specialist music expertise and programme management support within British Council global teams.

• Pro-actively build 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.
• Provide 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.
• Demonstrate the diversity of the UK Music sector with knowledge of at least four of the following areas: music education, the classical and orchestral sector, contemporary opera, experimental and contemporary music, electronic, jazz, folk, music of black origin such as hip‑hop, afrobeats, RnB, Amapiano, and grime.
• Proactively identify and enhance a diverse range of potential/actual partners for music project and programme development and delivery, securing the successful achievement of British Council objectives.
• Build and maintain valuable relationships with internal partners and key stakeholders to ensure impactful and collaborative delivery of portfolio goals in a complex matrix environment.
• Contribute to the development and presentation of specific music project or programme proposals, both face‑to‑face and digital, to ensure…