Arts Programme Manager

The British Council in Indonesia is seeking an experienced arts professional to join our team. We are expanding our arts programme and this is a key position within a small team working across theatre, music, visual arts, film, design and literature to present leading work, provide professional development and broker relationships between the Indonesian and British arts sectors.  

Based in Jakarta but working across Indonesia you will work with colleagues, artists and arts organisations in Indonesia and the UK to create, develop, facilitate and deliver programmes, events and projects to British Council’s standards and stakeholders’ satisfaction. 

The role involves all aspects from initiating, planning and developing programmes to creative concepts, negotiating partnerships to commissioning design, logistics and project management.

This position is offered for a fixed period of 1 year initial contract (renewable).

Key duties of this post include:

• Arts project planning and delivery
• Digital and media communications and relationship management
• Project monitoring and evaluation
• Identification of opportunities, including negotiation and discussions with potential partners and funders
• Project management and administration including financial, planning, risk and event management.    
• Maintaining relationships with UK arts colleagues and arts sector 

The successful applicant will need to be able to demonstrate evidence of:

• Strong industry experience of project, relationship and events management within the arts and creative industries.  
• Strong experience of project design, proposal development, monitoring and evaluation activities
• Effective team working experience
• Excellent spoken and written Bahasa Indonesia and English
• Willingness and ability to travel within Indonesia
• Excellent project implementation, financial monitoring and reporting skills

Applicants who do not meet these requirements will not be short-listed for interview.

Candidates must be available for interview on Monday, 3 and Tuesday 4 March 2014.

A copy of the full job descriptions and an application form can be downloaded from our website at

www.britishcouncil.or.id. You should return a completed application form through e-mail:

job.vacancy@britishcouncil.or.id by stating the job title as the e-mail subject.

Closing date for receipt of applications is by 16:00 on Thursday 27 February 2014. It is essential that candidates use the application form. The British Council does not accept CVs in place of the completed application form and it is unable to respond to telephone enquiries.

The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.

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