Assistant, capital relationships & monitoring

Closing date for applications: 4th August 2025 at 9.00am

Salary: £27,401 per annum

Contract: Fixed term contract until 30 June 2026

Are you organised, proactive and ready to make a difference in the cultural sector? Join a team working behind the scenes supporting investment in the UK's creative infrastructure.

Arts Council England delivers a range of capital investment programmes that contribute to the outcomes of Let’s Create, our 10-year strategy. Capital Investment Programmes are programmes that invest in assets or infrastructure to support the long-term sustainability of creative and cultural organisations across England.

Led by the director, capital, the capital team is made up of 3 sub-teams:
Investment – focused on the design of investment programmes and associated assessment and advice giving.
Relationships and monitoring – focused on stakeholder engagement and monitoring of risk, compliance and overall delivery of our capital investment.
Cultural development fund – focused on the delivery of this specific fund in conjunction with area-based colleagues.

You will be part of the capital relationships and monitoring team, providing administrative support to the delivery of our capital programmes.


Responsibilities

You will provide administrative assistance to senior officers, senior managers, and directors, servicing and event-managing internal and external business meetings, and coordinating administrative processes. This includes collating and distributing agendas and papers, taking notes, following up on actions, and providing support for cross-team working groups and other committees as required.

• Provide personal assistance to the director of capital, promoting optimal use of time by coordinating meetings, making travel arrangements, and ensuring that the director is well-briefed in advance
• Undertake small research tasks, preparing briefings, gathering and disseminating information, and running administrative support systems for the team
• Provide support to the team’s administrative procedures, including raising purchase orders and contracts, producing budget reports, reviewing information, and processing payments as requested
• Monitor the capital inbox and serve as the primary point of contact for the team, following up on requests for information, responding to queries, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience of providing administrative and programme support, preferably in a similar role
• A highly organised approach with the ability to work autonomously and juggle multiple priorities and exercise effective judgement when organising, planning, and managing complex tasks
• Excellent IT skills and experience in using databases
• Good interpersonal and communication skills – both speaking and in writing – and the ability to communicate in a confident and engaging manner and influence individuals over whom there is no formal line-management relationship
• A good understanding of the current diversity agenda and its relationship to the work of the role.
• Experience in monitoring budgets (desirable)

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.