Learning and Development Manager (FCS74)

Contract: Fixed term for 12 months form start date working 35 hours per week (Arts Council also recognises the benefit of flexible working as a valued part of the way we work and welcome applications from individuals who require flexibility)

Salary: 52000 per annum plus benefits including a final salary pension scheme generous annual leave and flexible and hybrid working.

Location: Manchester (The role will be based in Manchester; however we are operating a hybrid way of working and support our staff to make use of remote working options when combined with regular on-site contact days with other members of the team normally 1-2 days a week)

Arts Council England employs just over 700 staff across 9 Offices in England. The HR team is based mainly at our main office in Manchesters Northern Quarter.

As an LD Manager you will lead on the development and implementation of our learning and development offer across our business.

This is not a delivery role rather you need to ensure that excellent learning and development interventions are in place across the whole of the Arts Council and are appropriately evaluated to enable Arts Council England to deliver its priorities and ensure our staff benefit from knowing that they have the skills to deliver their role.

Working as part of the HR team but engaging staff and senior stakeholders across our organisation you will be the LD lead for the whole business. You will need to work closely with our Transformation Team as we consider our skills needs going forward.

We already have several major L&D projects in place for 2025-26 and further ones in development as part of our transformation programme. Have you got the skills and experience to drive through its implementation whilst managing emerging business needs and overseeing the day-to-day operations

The Arts Council employs passionate and experienced staff and invests heavily in LD to maintain their skills and engagement and to enable them to deliver our Lets Create strategy. We are particularly interested to hear from those with experience of supporting capability building to achieve digital transformation and culture change.

In addition your excellent line management skills will enable you to engage and develop the two junior colleagues in our LD.

This is an exciting time to join our team providing the opportunity to use your skills to enable our evolution towards a more data driven and digital future. Key to your success will be excellent stakeholder management which will draw on your negotiation skills both internally and externally to develop solutions to a diverse (and growing!) array of high-level business challenges.

You will embody the coaching approach to the benefit of the LD team and in ensuring your success in promoting appropriate LD interventions throughout our business.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Statement: Arts Council are committed to being an inclusive employer building an inclusive workplace and recruiting a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve. However you identify and whatever background you bring with you we welcome you to apply for a role at Arts Council.

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Disabled D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people and those from Black Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are underrepresented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.

About us: Arts Council offers a range of benefits to our employees including hybrid and flexible working a generous annual leave allowance and the Arts Council Retirement Plan - a final salary scheme. To find out more click here.

Our Code of Ethics requires that employees of the Arts Council are not able to receive an Arts Council grant investment or loan funding - either in person as a member of a partnership or for any organisation they own. There are also limitations on board or CEO positions employees can hold in organisations we fund. For more information on this please talk to the recruiting manager or contact

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Job ref: FCS74

Closing date: 09:00 Monday 21 July

1^st Interviews: (virtual) Monday 04 & Thursday 07 August

2^nd Interviews: (in person) Manchester office Tuesday 12 August

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