British Council recruits 01 Programme Officer, Arts_Ethiopia
About Us:
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries.
We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.
We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body.
Arts Through our work in Arts we find new ways of connecting with and understanding each other to develop stronger creative sectors around the world.
Our expert team in the UK and around the world works to five broad aims: to share UK arts with the world; to foster collaborations and networks; to build capacity in creative sectors; to foster social change; and to support the shaping of policy and research.
This cultural exchange helps create modern and vibrant creative sectors, building connections, trust and opportunity. It can also help to bring together divided communities and people affected by conflict.
Our global Arts programmes include cultural seasons and festivals in countries around the world, supporting skills building and entrepreneurship, touring exhibitions of the UK’s leading artists and designers, film festivals, book fairs, and dance, music and theatre performances and exchanges.
Role purpose
Programme Officer Arts, Ethiopia To support the delivery of British Council Arts projects to agreed targets, impact, customer service standards and financial management standards with and through project partners to meet the project objectives within the defined timeline and targets and partner expectations.
Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
The post holder will be accountable to the Arts Programme Manager and will be responsible for providing the required support for the successful delivery of Creative Futures events.
All duties will be in line with our Equal Opportunities & Diversity, Child Protection, Environmental and other overarching corporate policies. Specific duties will include:
· Provide administrative, financial and logistical support to ensure the successful delivery of all related activities ·
Work with the respective teams, to ensure that all project related procurement, contracting and payments are completed according to British Council procedures and client requirements.
· Assist in the identification, assessment, reporting and management of risks- Help to manage programmes budgets to corporate standards · Help to ensure that outcomes and impact are measured and reported according to corporate standards and client requirements.
· Identify risks and escalate as appropriate to Arts Programme Manager.
Special requirements of the job · Some unsocial hours, weekend work and travel may be required.
Role Requirements:
Diploma in a Social Science Discipline (Preferably Bachelors Degree) and A minimum of 2 years’ experience in one or more of the following areas: · Delivering projects (preferably with youth and/or arts) ·
Delivering work in partnership or team · Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English and Amharic ·
Demonstrable understanding of and a network in the Arts Sector here in Ethiopia · Using Outlook, Word, Excel and Social Media mainly Facebook, Telegram etc If you would like to see full details and understand more about this post then please refer to the role profile for more information on the role responsibilities/accountabilities and person specification, by clicking on the links for relevant document to support your application:: Note that you should only fill out the application after thoroughly reading through the ROLE PROFILE & GUIDANCE NOTES.
Closing date for applications is 13 July 2019 (23:59 UK time) Our Equality Commitment: Valuing diversity is essential to the British Council’s work.
We aim to abide by and promote equality legislation by following both the letter and the spirit of it to avoid unjustified discrimination, recognising discrimination as a barrier to equality of opportunity, inclusion and human rights.
All staff worldwide are required to ensure their behaviour is consistent with our policies.
The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and is keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within the organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. In line with the British Council’s Child Protection policy, any appointment is contingent on thorough checks.