Programme Co-ordinator, Cultural Education Network; COOF

Arts Council England

Employment Type

Temporary Fixed term until 30 September 2026, working 35 hours per week

Location Hybrid
· United Kingdom(multiple locations) Nottingham
· Leeds
· Manchester Some travel between the three offices and you will also need to travel beyond your office base.

Salary £33,643 (GBP) final salary pension scheme, generous annual leave, and hybrid working

Seniority Junior

• Closing:11:59pm, 25th Jan 2026 GMT

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that has developed a new, national support offer for teachers, freelance teaching artists and staff from the Creative and Cultural sector.

The Cultural Education Network shares expertise, best practice, and fosters creative and cultural partnerships, to increase and enhance the confidence, skills and capabilities of teachers and cultural educators, to develop their cultural offers for children and young people.

The programme aims to build capacity in the cultural and education sectors, supporting better understanding of how to work together and build impactful partnerships, offering events and webinars, help desk support and one-to-one advice sessions, via our team of Cultural Education Specialists.

As the Programme Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for supporting the whole Cultural Education Network team, including supporting the Cultural Education Specialists with one-to-one delivery, and the Senior Manager and Programme Manager with strategic planning and programme delivery.

You will be contributing to the day-to-day development and delivery of the programme, which includes three main categories of responsibilities:

• Event management, including setting events up online via Zoom and Eventbrite, managing attendee lists, ensuring events are accessible, and responding to enquiries.
• Supporting event facilitation both online and in-person, booking venues, monitoring attendance, and delivery support (i.e., IT support, access support, booking catering, etc.).
• Responding to enquiries via email from the public and from our audiences, providing information, advice and guidance for programme users.
• Ensuring appropriate templates, resource materials and guidance are branded, accessible, and available to support programme users.
• Attending occasional external online and in-person meetings, seminars and conferences as a representative of the programme, as appropriate, and liaising with a range of contractors to support the delivery of the programme.

• Co-ordinating team schedules, meetings, and supporting the overall functioning of the team.
• Oversight and management of the programme’s CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, shared Inbox and of one-to-one requests coming through web forms.
• Tracking and aggregating programme data in Excel and Power BI.
• Updating budget records, raising purchase orders and managing invoices and payments via the Arts Council’s financial management system.

You may also be required to support Procurement processes, contract development, or grant writing, and partnership development agreements.

Updating the team’s SharePoint Intranet pages to ensure processes are documented, up to date, and clear for all team members.

• Supporting the programme’s communications strategy, including liaising with colleagues in Comms to ensure coverage of the programme, and drafting comms content for social media, the website and e-newsletters.
• Oversight and management of the programme’s web pages in Drupal, including updating information as required.
• Supporting the development of internal communications with area and national teams.
• Communicating with external and internal stakeholders in a professional manner, including partnering cultural organisations, external contractors, and colleagues in the national Children, Young People and Learning and Artsmark teams.
• Providing regular updates and reports to the Programme Manager, Cultural Education Network and may be required to analyse data and reports, providing summaries and information on request. You may also be required to assist with responding to Freedom…