Placemaking Manager

The role

UAL is seeking an experienced Placemaking Manager to play a key role identifying opportunities and securing funding to deliver UAL's placemaking activity in South London.

UAL’s placemaking manifesto sets out our commitment to work in partnership to make the places we operate more accessible, equitable, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and prosperous. As Placemaking Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Horizon scanning for relevant opportunities.
• Supporting the development of strategic plans relating to placemaking.
• Working with academic and professional service colleagues to determine areas with greatest potential for development and income generation.
• Collaborating with colleagues to develop and deliver a range of funded partnership projects for the benefit of local stakeholders across South London.
• Identifying external funding opportunities and leading on bid development and submission.
• Leading project teams on project delivery, including project and budget management and evaluation and reporting.

Due to the nature of the role there will be times when the postholder will need to work at onsite or offsite locations for relationship management and project delivery.

About you

You will need knowledge of placemaking with experience of developing successful funding bids in a placemaking, creative industries or communities context.

Project management experience, including the management of externally funded projects and budgets, is also essential.

You will also have experience of contracts management, ideally within a university context.

We are offering an informal pre-application Q&A/information session on MS Teams to interested candidates for this role on 7 March 2025 between 13:00 - 14:00.

Please email Christine Crouch at jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk for the meeting link by no later than 09:00 on the day.

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Christine Crouch / jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

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Closing date: 16^th March 2025, 23:55.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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