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

As a Learning and Development 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 L+D lead for the whole business. You will need to work closely with our Transformation Team as we consider our skills needs going forward.

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.

If there are any adjustments that would support you in your application, please do let us know when you apply. If you are disabled, Evenbreak are able to provide support with your application. For further information please visit their website here

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.

The Arts Council employs passionate and experienced staff and invests heavily in L+D to maintain their skills and engagement and to enable them to deliver our Let’s 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 L+D.

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 L+D team and in ensuring your success in promoting appropriate L+D interventions throughout our business.