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We’re currently recruiting for:

  • Senior Trust & Foundations Manager

Senior Trust & Foundations Manager

We are seeking a Senior Trusts & Foundations Manager to work in direct dialogue with the Artistic Director and Executive Director as our Joint CEO’s, including feeding into and then delivering our fundraising strategy. This is an exciting moment to join Artsadmin following the appointment of Raidene Carter as our new Artistic Director.

The ideal candidate will hold expertise in developing relationships with funders, with a particular focus on trusts & foundations and some corporate, public, and partnership fundraising. You will have a track record of securing successful mid and large-scale fundraising applications, as well as feeding into or shaping a multi-year fundraising strategy. You may be looking for a step up or a shift in your career to have more input at a strategic level without the demands of running a large development team, with the ability and freedom to work across an entire organisation.

  • Permanent contract
  • Full time, 5 days a week (4 days a week on a 0.8 FTE part time contract would be accepted)
  • Salary: £43,000 – £46,000 gross per annum, depending on experience
  • Hours of work: 10am-6pm, Monday-Friday. No overtime will be paid, but time off in lieu can be taken for additional hours assigned in advance by a Director.
  • Location: The Artsadmin office at Toynbee Studios. . Hybrid remote working for 20% of the week is automatically possible for all staff in alignment with Artsadmin’s Remote Working Policy. Requests for additional flexible working arrangements and/or ad-hoc requests are welcomed and regularly reviewed for all staff, with a guideline of maintaining most of our time in person as a team.
  • Holidays: 20 days, plus eight public holidays and a two-week, discretionary company closure over Christmas and New Year.

Benefits include:

  • 4% employer pension contributions, 1% above statutory minimum  
  • Health scheme, reimbursing medical costs including eye tests and glasses 
  • Contractual sick pay 
  • Travel card / Season ticket loan  
  • Cycle to Work Scheme / Tech Scheme 
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave Policy  
  • Additional holiday and childcare benefits for length of service  

Deadline for applications: Monday 15 April 2024, 10am

Apply now

You can also download the job pack in Word format here

Our anti-racist work on recruitment and retention

We are a friendly team comprising around 23 people where everyone’s contribution is valued.

As a currently 50% white organisation, we want to continue developing our anti-racism strategy as part of a commitment and ongoing process to create a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Artsadmin is a London Living Wage employer.

Our Recruitment Approach

We are particularly interested in hearing from people who are underrepresented in the sector, such as those who identify as D/deaf and/or disabled, those from low socio-economic backgrounds, people of African or Caribbean heritage, South Asian heritage, East Asian heritage, West Asian heritage, Central Asian heritage, South East Asian heritage, people of Middle East and North African heritage* and those who have experienced racism. By the term ‘those who have experienced racism’, we are referring to individuals who have experienced discrimination based on the colour of their skin, race and/or their culture. 
*#BAMEOver – A Statement for the UK, Sept 2020

For the recruitment of this role, we are committed to ensuring that there is:

  • A person of colour on the interview panel
  • Interviews guaranteed for those who identify from the Global Majority* and meet our minimum essential criteria in the person specification.
  • A chance to meet some of the team at interview stage to give insight into the organisational culture, as well as a chance to ask questions outside the interview

And that, once in role, any successful candidate who identifies as part of the Global Majority will have access to an external coach or mentor to provide support for working in a majority-white team during their first year at Artsadmin.

In using the term ‘Global Majority’ we refer to people who identify as Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. (Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, 2020)

If you have any questions please email admin@artsadmin.co.uk. This email account is regularly checked.


Access support

Access support is available for all applications, including alternative formats and tailored support. If, for access reasons, you’d prefer to meet one of our team to talk through these guidelines or would like to submit your application in another format like video, please contact access@artsadmin.co.uk or call 020 7247 5102.

Access support for the application process

If you need an access worker to help you to apply, we understand it is good practice that this is someone nominated by the applicant requiring assistance, as many people will regularly use the same note taker or interpreter. You can request this support by emailing access@artsadmin.co.uk. We can pay for support such as: 

  • Note taking support to help a disabled applicant in meetings or to complete the application form.
  • British sign language (BSL) interpretation support for Deaf applicants in one-to-one meetings and translation of applications made in BSL into English.
  • Personal assistants for people with experience of the mental health system and for people with learning disabilities.

We will be working on the basis of up to £200 per day of support towards access. A quote for the access support services will need to be obtained and sent to access@artsadmin.co.uk then a fee agreed with us for its delivery. The access support worker should submit their invoice to Artsadmin. Once we have confirmed with you that work has been carried out satisfactorily, we can authorise payment.

The provision of access support does not require an application to be submitted. Applicants can access information on our commission and then decide not to apply. 

For open call and opportunities, awards or commissions for artists, we cannot pay for project development, such as the cost of an arts worker, development consultant, producer or bid writer to help people apply or translate from verbal languages (other than British Sign Language).

Access support for employees
If you are successful in getting a job at Artsadmin, we would do an access requirement audit as part of the induction process to identify and make a plan to meet your access needs. We have experience in supporting employees with Access to Work applications.


Equal opportunities

Artsadmin is an equal opportunities employer, and positively encourages applications from groups currently underrepresented irrespective of gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or age.

This applies whether in relation to terms of employment, conditions of service or opportunities for training. Individuals are selected and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities and no one is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable.


London Living Wage

Artsadmin pays a minimum of London Living Wage. 

Our Approach

Artsadmin is an equal opportunities employer, and positively encourages applications from groups currently underrepresented irrespective of gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or age.

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The Peoples Palace of Possibility, What Shall We Build Here Festival 2023. Photo by Sophie Le Roux