The Role

Arts and Events Manager (Alton)

PO1

Fixed Term (until 30 June 2026)
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth
Hybrid Working: at least 3 days Wandsworth/Roehampton based, remainder of the days can be home working. One of the office days will be Wednesdays due to team meetings.

We are seeking an Arts and Events Manager to join us on a fixed-term contract to work within the Arts and Culture Service on embedding cultural engagement opportunities within the renewal programme for the Alton estate in Roehampton.

The next two years will be an exciting time for the service, as we become London Borough of Culture 2025. Wandsworth is changing and culture will be at the heart of developing a people-led approach to health, happiness and equality of opportunity. Our programme for the year promises to be a trailblazer for London becoming a Creative Health Capital City – a place where better health outcomes are achieved through the healing, inspirational power of culture and the arts. This role will be critical in ensuring that one of our most under-served communities, residents on the Alton estate, is able to access the full benefits from Wandsworth being London Borough of Culture.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of instigating or producing innovative and high-quality arts and cultural activities that engage local communities. You will lead on projects that revolve around engagement, collaboration and participatory decision-making with local residents. You will be experienced in arts administration including contracting, budget monitoring and supporting marketing activity, and you will be confident in developing and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

We are concentrating our efforts to build capacity locally so that the cultural offer will be sustainable over the long-term, and supporting the wider objectives of the Council’s ten year Arts and Culture Strategy 2021-31 in relation to community engagement, placemaking, economic opportunities, identifying and developing people’s creative talents, improving health and wellbeing, ensuring access for all and tackling the climate emergency. To achieve these goals, you will be skilled in collaboration and partnership working, excel at verbal and written communications and demonstrate a passion for culture that will engage local residents.

The successful candidate will join a proactive and award-winning Arts and Culture Service, within a borough that prides itself on delivering a wide range of creative opportunities for everyone living, working and visiting the borough. For more details on the work already happening in the borough, visit Wandsworth Council’s Arts section, Wandsworth Arts Fringe and Wandsworth Art. Part of the work will be delivering Wandsworth’s London Borough of Culture year which starts in April 2025 in order to ensure strong engagement by Alton estate residents. The successful candidate will sit within the Arts and Culture Service and work closely with the Council’s regeneration and place shaping teams.

We are open to hybrid working and particularly welcome applications from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our teams, including back and ethnic minority communities. We understand the value of what a diverse workforce brings to our local authority and therefore strongly encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply for this position.

In return, we can offer you working arrangements that will enhance your work-life balance.  These include flexible working (dependent on service need) and a generous holiday allowance of 31 days plus bank holidays. In addition, we offer a range of staff benefits such as membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, childcare vouchers, new technology scheme, interest-free loans on annual travel cards, discounts at many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments. A wide range of developmental opportunities is also offered.
Help us to deliver a year to remember, using the power of culture to transform lives, spark joy, connect people and improve wellbeing – let’s do this together!

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Katherine Hill, Cultural Programme Manager for Schools and Young People at Katherine.Hill@RichmondandWandsworth.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 20th October

Shortlisting Date: week of 21st October

Interview Date: week 4th November

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. This campaign is anonymised.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. 

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils