The British Council Recruits Arts Manager

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We work in over 100 countries worldwide to build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people.

• Building creative partnerships and collaborations
• Showcasing the UK in Nigeria and vice versa
• Developing skills and leadership in the creative sector
• Harnessing the power of arts in achieving international development goals

• supporting Assistant Director Nigeria, the post holder will maintain and expand knowledge of the Nigerian arts sector and to develop and sustain relationships with key practitioners and organisations, both established and emerging talent;
• represent our work in arts to external partners and stakeholders;
• Provide advice to UK organisations, artists and professional networks on the international development of their work.

• provide content for BC online platforms on high quality new work and new content in Nigeria;
• develop new digital platforms for expansion of access to BC Nigeria arts work
• Provide content for communications materials  for distribution in Nigeria, the region and UK

• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for developing new physical and digital audiences for delivery of British Council arts projects in Nigeria
• Develop and deliver marketing communications activity to support delivery of new audiences
• Assess and report on the effectiveness of audience development / marketing activity against objectives, implementing contingencies where necessary and making recommendations needed improvements

• oversee progress against project plans;
• provide professional advice to colleagues in UK and Nigeria on artists and the sector;
• provide input and support to regional and UK staff with an arts brief, in consultation with Assistant Director Nigeria.

• manage agreed members of programme team to British Council standards
• manage agreed budgets to British Council standards

• Assistant Director Nigeria, Arts Project Team Nigeria
• Nigerian venues, programmers, producers, artists and performers in all art forms and the wider creative industries.
• Arts colleagues in the SSA region and Headquarters
• Key arts journalists in the arts and creative industries

• Regular attendance at evening and weekend events are a normal part of the job.
• Significant knowledge and experience in the Nigerian (and UK) and wider African arts and creative industries sectors is essential.

• Specialist and up-to-date knowledge of - and a broad network of contacts in - the Nigerian/African/UK arts and creative sectors.
•  Evidence of an ability to make and articulate clear and insightful artistic judgements on new work.
• An understanding of the educational, developmental and creative industry opportunities of arts activity.
• An understanding of the opportunities for cultural relations through the arts within an international context.
• Good experience of using various ( including email marketing tools, social media platforms, web analytics software, Microsoft Office) to create and grow audiences in an arts context

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least three years’ recent professional experience of working in a creative, producing, programming or management capacity in the Arts sector in Nigeria, ideally with international links.