To provide efficient, an accurate administrative duties to the Operations directorate, focusing primarily on processing, documenting and analysing visitor donations.
To embed efficiencies and improve communications across the directorate to improve the overall visitor experience.
If you think you match the job description and their organisation ethos then click on the link to apply with your CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the person specification.
Closing date: 8 October
The Art Fund Vivmar Foundation Traineeships are generously supported by The Vivmar Foundation and present an initiative to encourage diversity in the recruitment of curatorial staff.
NML is pleased to partner with Derby Museums in hosting the Art Fund and Vivmar Foundation Traineeship and in welcoming people with varied lived experiences to apply. During the programme, the Trainee will spend 14 months at the World Museum, Liverpool, and 8 months based at the Derby Museum, Derby.
For the first 12 months of the traineeship, the successful candidate will be based at NML working closely with the two Assistant Curators within the Global Cultures section to learn essential museum skills in the development and care of NML’s Global Cultures collections, as well as their documentation, research, presentation and interpretation. The Trainee will be managed and supported by the Lead Curator (Global Cultures), and will focus on the documentation, research and interpretation of collections from Oceania. A significant part of the role will be engaged in collections care and research which could lead to a small online exhibition or similar offering.
After 12 months in Liverpool, the Trainee will spend the next 8 months in Derby at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, assisting the curatorial team with researching pieces originating from Oceania. They will also participate in discussion and planning sessions as Derby Museum continues to develop its thinking regarding the displays of its World Collections. Like NML, a key aspect of Derby’s methodology is co-production, and the Trainee will have the opportunity to learn more about the way Derby undertakes this work and integrates the outcomes into its displays and interpretation.
At the end of the 8 months in Derby, the Trainee will spend their last 2 months back in Liverpool using the skills they have gained working in both institutions to complete the Oceania-focused project they began prior to their placement in Derby.
To apply, visit here
Closing date: 1 October
Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic, and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. Liverpool City Council have got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for their communities.
Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to communities by transforming the way they work and placing residents at the heart of everything they do.
Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Their values shape how they work to deliver public services, and how they communicate with the residents they serve. They care about the best outcomes for local people, through their public services.
They are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, as well as affordable housing, good schools, beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!
The role:
They are seeking a dynamic and creative Communications Manager to lead our campaigns, culture, and leisure communications. You will manage a campaigns team consisting of marketing officers, graphic designers, videographers and a digital officer.
This is a fantastic opportunity to amplify the city’s distinctive, globally attractive culture and support its vibrant events, parks, libraries, sports facilities, and leisure centres. You will be at the heart of Liverpool’s cultural life, helping to shape the city’s reputation and drive positive change.
As Communications Manager, you work closely with Culture Liverpool, the Liverpool City Region Destination Partnership, and other key teams to promote the city’s cultural assets and activities. You will also collaborate with the Halls and Film Office to ensure events and activities reach the widest possible audience.
Please note: this vacancy is a fixed term contract for the purposes of covering maternity leave and will end on 30 November 2026.
Their offer to you:
Next steps:
Closing date: midnight on Sunday 28 September 2025 (this could be subject to change)
Shortlisting date: W/C 29 September 2025
Interview date: 8 and/or 10 October 2025
Interview format: face-to-face, possibly with a presentation
They reserve the right to close vacancies earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If interested, please complete an application as early as possible.
If you would like any further information or an informal discussion, please contact Sarah Latcham, Campaigns Manager, at sarah.latcham@liverpool.gov.uk.
To apply, visit here
Following the recent announcement that co-founder and Artistic Director Keith Saha will be stepping down at the end of 2025, 20 Stories High is excited to begin the recruitment process for a new Artist Lead to help guide the company into its next chapter.
Over the past 20 years, 20 Stories High has built a national reputation for bold, contemporary, and co-created theatre that platforms the voices of young people and underrepresented communities. The company has championed, wellbeing, inclusion, anti-racism, and artistic excellence, touring award-winning productions across the UK while remaining deeply rooted in its Liverpool community.
As the company prepares for its 20th anniversary in 2026, it is looking for a visionary new Artistic Lead who will collaborate with the existing Co-CEO/Executive Director and the wider team to shape an exciting future programme.
Catrina Hewitson, chair of 20 Stories High’s board said:
“20 Stories High has always been about bringing unheard voices centre stage, and we are looking for someone who shares those values. This is a unique opportunity to build on Keith’s extraordinary legacy and lead the company into its next era with imagination, courage, and heart.”
Keith Saha said:
“After nearly two decades, the time feels right for new artistic leadership. 20 Stories High has always thrived on fresh voices and bold ideas, and I’m excited to see how the next Artistic Lead will take the company forward, pushing boundaries while keeping young people and communities at its heart.”
The new Artistic Lead will play a central role in:
Applications for the Artistic Lead role are now open, with a closing date of Monday 3rd November 2025, 9am. The recruitment pack and further details can be found at https://www.20storieshigh.org.uk/recruitment/
Future Yard are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, creative and organised individual to this exciting new role of Marketing + Comms Assistant.
As a grassroots community music venue, Future Yard proudly hosts a varied live music programme across two spaces (280-capacity indoor Live Room and 600-capacity external space), alongside a range of skills and training opportunities. Their live programme is their heart, calling card and reason for being. Ensuring that all of these shows are promoted with warmth and passion, and that audiences can efficiently discover them, is essential to achieving their mission – that music can change the world.
In this exciting new entry role, you will be closely linked to the live events programme, supporting the delivery of marketing campaigns that aim to increase awareness and grow audiences. You will assist with the sales, announcement and ticketing requirements for all Future Yard events, underpinning the promotional work done by the Marketing + Comms team – which you will be vital to. This includes overseeing all of show announcements, managing ticketing platforms, creating and scheduling content for online and offline promo, and generally ensuring that Future Yard’s event communications are timely, accurate and engaging.
This is a fantastic opportunity to put your passion for live events to use, and to develop your skills and experience as part of a supportive and creative team. You will work closely with the Live Marketing Officer and Marketing Manager to plan and deliver engaging campaigns, helping to drive audience attendance and engagement across all of Future Yard’s live events, and occasionally on other aspects of Future Yard’s programming.
They don’t expect you to know everything already — they’re looking for someone with great communication skills, a keen eye for detail, a love of promoting music and a willingness to learn. Some experience with social media, design tools (like Canva or Adobe) or ticketing platforms would be great, but not essential.
To apply, visit here
Closing date: 6 October
You will support key strategy and policy development and stakeholder engagement in relation to the creative lives of children and young people. This role will support the vision, outcomes and investment principles in Let’s Create, the Arts Council’s 10-year strategy. You will focus on how the Arts Council supports the creative lives of children & young people, with a focus on policy development and strategic relationships.
You will work closely with the Director of Music Education and Director of Children, Young People and Learning on policy development in relation to children & young people.
You will draft policy papers, position papers, briefing notes, speeches and presentations, drawing on data, evidence, the views of children & young people, and the needs of the cultural sector. You will work with teams across Arts Council to ensure diversity and inclusion are centred in all policy work.
You will act as the first point of contact for the national team on specific activity as agreed by the Directors, Music Education and Children and Young People & Learning.
You will mentor and coach Relationship Managers: helping them to develop their skills and experience in their specialism and support them in applying this specialist knowledge with their Area teams and when managing strategic funding programmes.
You will ensure appropriate messaging, advocacy and internal and external communications for work with children and young people. Supported by expert communications support, you will draft relevant newsletters and press releases.
You will act as an advocate for the Arts Council and represent ACE in dealings with the media and at public events and launches.
You will contribute to the organisation’s commitment to diversity and its implications for the arts and culture, promoting a diversity perspective in all aspects of the post’s objectives and activities.
To apply and for more details, visit here
Closing date: 28 September
Future Yard are recruiting a Marketing Manager to lead creative campaigns, shape strategy, and champion one of the UK’s most exciting grassroots music venues.
This is a unique opportunity to join the team at one of the UK’s most exciting new music organisations. Since fully opening in the summer of 2021, we have played host to artists such as Nadine Shah, Anna Calvi, Gruff Rhys, OMD, Doves, Black Country, New Road, Pussy Riot: Riot Days, Everything Everything, English Teacher, The Zutons, Nubiyan Twist, Shame, Melt Yourself Down, Dry Cleaning, The Coral, Bodega and many more, with a programme encompassing the best in contemporary alternative, jazz, electronic and experimental music.
Future Yard is committed to providing a range of pathways for local young people to develop the skills needed to embark on careers within the live music industry.
As a member of the Future Yard family you will benefit from a range of bonuses, including: free entry to all Future Yard shows, training and social events, our cycle to work scheme, paid training, ongoing development opportunities and a brilliant range of staff discounts.
Future Yard takes its safeguarding responsibilities to children and vulnerable adults very seriously and is committed to providing a safe environment for all who walk through our doors. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are looking to appoint an experienced and creative marketing professional to a new position of Marketing Manager.
As a community music venue, skills and training hub and pillar of the community, Future Yard delivers a wide-ranging programme of live events, artist development, training initiatives and community activities.
Ensuring that all of this work is communicated warmly, professionally and with flair is essential to achieving our mission – that music can change the world.
You will oversee and manage the marketing of Future Yard’s varied live events, programmes and activities, with line management responsibility for two live events marketers. You will lead campaigns promoting Future Yard’s training programmes, artist development initiatives, schools programmes, F+B offer and weddings/hires, ensuring sales and recruitment targets are met. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape and deliver the marketing and communications strategy for one of the UK’s most exciting new music organisations.
Working closely with our Director of Audiences, you will plan and deliver creative campaigns across social media, email, web, print and partnerships. You’ll work alongside colleagues from across the organisation – from Skills + Learning to Community and Sustainability – to make sure our story is told brilliantly and consistently. You will also maintain a robust comms calendar and oversee the efficient use of our audience CRM.
The next 12 months represent an exciting period for Future Yard. We are about to embark on a large capital building project, creating new performance and workshop spaces which will allow us to engage with even more people in Birkenhead, Wirral and across the Liverpool City Region. As an organisation who proudly painted THE FUTURE IS BIRKENHEAD on the front of our building when we first moved in, we are excited to build on our promising first chapter and establish ourselves as one of the UK’s foremost, innovative and bold grassroots music venues.
Working within our Leadership Group, this role will report to the Director Of Audiences. Future Yard CIC is a relatively young organisation and has grown into its current position of prominence in just five years. We are an award-winning, grassroots cultural institution, an anchor organisation in Birkenhead’s regeneration and an Arts Council England NPO.
We are looking for a creative and organised marketing and communications professional with several years of experience to undertake this role at an important time in our organisation’s development. Ideally you will have relevant experience within the music/creative industries, although candidates with transferable and appropriate experience from other sectors are also encouraged to apply.
We are particularly looking for an individual who shares Future Yard’s values and is/has:
– Demonstrable experience of planning and delivering successful marketing campaigns across multiple channels
– Strong understanding of social media, email marketing and web CMS
– Experience of managing budgets, schedules and targets
– Excellent copywriting and communication skills, with an ability to brilliantly articulate and present Future Yard’s vision
– Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects at once
– Experience of leading a small team
– A passion for the power of culture and a deep interest in music
– Great team working skills, flexibility and an appetite to continually develop
– You will be a well organised, disciplined self-starter
Find the full job spec and recruitment pack on the Future Yard website, along with the link to apply: futureyard.org/jobs-opportunities-marketing-manager.
Artist-Led St Helens are looking for a Marketing Leader to help promote events by Artist Led St Helens, with mentorship from Short Supply. The Marketing Leader will co-design their strategy for keeping artists up to date and informed of events across their programme from September 2025 to March 2026.
Fee: £2000 fixed rate contract. Estimated 10 days work at £200 per day. This is a freelance role and you will be responsible for your own taxes.
Location: Hybrid. Remote working possible with some requirement to attend events and meetings at Haydock Street, St. Helens, WA10 1DD
Contract Type: Project-based
Duration: 10 days work from October 2025 – March 2026
Successful applicants will:
● Have a strong understanding or connection to St Helens as an area, including understanding of local demographics and issues that affect people here
● Demonstrable experience creating a marketing strategy (a plan to deliver information)
● Be comfortable working digitally/remotely
● Be comfortable working flexibly and communicating their schedule with a freelance team
● Have some kind of creative practice, or a strong knowledge of the arts
● Have an interest in collaborating with artists to produce information
● Be committed to accessibility of information, including providing for artists and audiences
with access requirements
Full information and the link to the application form here:
Without Walls is seeking to appoint an Access Advisor to expand Embedded Access provisions within their Creation & Touring Programme 2026.
The purpose of this role is to work closely with the programme artists and festivals to expand awareness and implementation of Embedded Access, for touring outdoor arts productions and small-mid scale outdoor arts festivals. The postholder should have demonstrable knowledge of best practice for Embedded Access in the arts sector.
They will be working with all programme artists to develop a shared Embedded Access provision for the 2026 touring programme. They will also work with selected artists to develop bespoke Embedded Access for a specific touring project; and with select festivals to implement tailored provisions to develop Embedded Accessibility at their events.
The postholder will have experience of working with artists to design Embedded Access from the start of a project, and will also have knowledge of the practical considerations for implementing Embedded Access. For example, they can provide accurate guidance on designing appropriate budgets and timelines for accessible productions etc.
Closing Date: 12am (Midnight) Sunday 12th October 2025
Contract Type: Temporary Freelance
Fee: £3,250 (+VAT if applicable) for the delivery of the outlined advisory work.
This corresponds to a total of 13 days of work at a daily fee of £250. Days per week to be worked flexibly, according to the needs of the postholder, artists and festivals.
Timeline and key dates: The work is to be carried out between Thursday 30 October 2025 and Wednesday 30 September 2026. Please refer to the Outline of Work section below for details.
Please note that, as part of the contract, the selected candidate must be available to work approximately 4 days between the dates of Thursday 30 October and Monday 24 November 2025.
Location: Remote, with some necessary and some optional in-person commitments. All travel and accommodation costs required for attending in-person events will be covered by Without Walls in accordance with our Expense Policy.
Managed by: Without Walls EDI Manager
Access requirements: They ask candidates to share their access requirements with us so they can make any reasonable adjustments if needed.
The postholder should have demonstrable knowledge of best practice for Embedded Access in the arts sector. They will be working with all programme artists to develop a shared Embedded Access provision for the 2026 touring programme. They will also work with selected artists to develop bespoke Embedded Access for a specific touring project; and with select festivals to implement tailored provisions to develop Embedded Accessibility at their events.
The postholder will have experience of working with artists to design Embedded Access from the start of a project, and will also have knowledge of the practical considerations for implementing Embedded Access. For example, they can provide accurate guidance on designing appropriate budgets and timelines for accessible productions etc.
Please read the full job pack for full details on the role https://withoutwalls.uk.com/we-are-recruiting-for-an-access-advisor/
Operational support is critical to the day-to-day management of the Atkinson’s building and facilities, including delivery of all programmes and services.
Candidates will have experience of working in a public building with some responsibility for general maintenance, the management of contract services or other general duties. They will have experience in either a technical or practical field, such as engineering or electrical work. The post-holder will be an effective team worker, with good inter-personal and communication skills.
Employer: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Salary: Grade D SCP 5 – 6, £25,583 – £25,989
Location: The Atkinson, Southport
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Hours: 36 hours per week.
DBS Check: No
Closing Date: Monday 22 September 2025 at 23:59
Reference: COMM/25/321266
Provisional Interview Date: W/C 6th October 2025
Visit theatkinson.co.uk/opportunities to download the Job Description and Apply.