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Job Title: Head of Arts, Germany
Location: Berlin, Germany
Requirements: Candidates must have the legal rights to work in country of location at the time of application.
Contract Type: Indefinite contract
Pay-band: F
Starting salary: € 4,187.00 gross (12 months)
Additional Benefits: - fixed gross allowances totalling 14,33% of annual gross pay
- 30 leave days
- bank holidays
- Working from home allowance in case of structural hybrid work patterns
- monthly net allowance (GIVVE card) and a lumpsum payment in case of death in service.
- EAP (Employee Assistant Program) - employee support service provided by qualified clinicians and professionals who are experts in fields such as well-being, family matters, relationships, debt management, employment issues, consumer rights and counselling.
Role Purpose: At the British Council we find new ways of connecting with and understanding each other through the arts, building creative and collaborative global communities that inspire innovation, knowledge, prosperity and peace. The connections we build through arts and culture transform lives and create positive change.
The Head of Arts leads strategic planning for Germany and implementation, brokering and amplification of a diverse portfolio of Arts and Creative Industries programmes, funded by British Council grant, other partners or client-funders.
They will have oversight of activities in Germany delivered through the Arts four global programmes: Culture Connects, Spotlights on Culture, Creative Economy and Culture Responds to Global Challenges (details below).
They will lead a small specialist Arts team in Germany and manage sector partner and stakeholder relationships in Germany and the UK.
They provide Arts and Creative Industries sector expertise at a country level, liaise closely with our Arts group sector colleagues in the UK and feed relevant insight up to the Regional Arts Director and team.
They are an important part of Germany’s country leadership team as well as the Regional and Global Arts Management Teams, working with colleagues to influence decision making across Arts and our wider Cultural Engagement work.
This role is the most senior representative of Arts in Germany, and represents our work in Arts and creative industries externally, working alongside and also supporting the British Embassy in Germany.
Main Accountabilities: Sector/subject expertise - Uses their own expert knowledge on the arts and creative industries in Germany, intelligence and insight from other sector stakeholders, opinion formers and funders to support the ongoing development of arts programmes that meet the specific needs of Germany while also providing value to a diverse range of UK arts and creative industry organisations.
- Through ongoing relationships with the Global Arts Management Team, builds and maintains good understanding of UK arts and creative industry sector priorities as well as UK Government priorities.
- Represents British Council in Germany as a recognised, credible authority in Arts and the creative industries to external stakeholders and audiences.
- Provides up-to-date and well-informed senior-level briefings on current and emerging themes in arts and creative industries in Germany.
- Identifies and develops opportunities for the UK Arts sector to work in and collaborate with peers in country
- Supports internal capacity building, ensuring that teams can access appropriate and cost-effective L&D opportunities and grow their sector knowledge and skills
Leadership & management - Provides specialist input and design to ensure activities under the Arts global programmes are relevant to the Arts and creative industry sectors in Germany.
- Actively works across the matrix in the Arts network, empowering and enabling colleagues to collaborate on progr