Partnerships Manager

The Edinburgh International Festival is looking for a Partnerships Manager to join the Development team. We want you to help us present this unparalleled celebration of the performing arts, which brings some of the most exciting and creative artists working today to audiences from around the world.

This is a dynamic role which cultivates new business and manages a varied portfolio of major partnerships (£20k+ pa) covering international, corporate and major trusts. This role will act as an internal and external ambassador for partnership opportunities – identifying assets within the organisation and generating new business externally. The Partnerships Manager will use creative approaches to attract long-term, high-value strategic partnerships which further the Festival’s vision and underpin long-term sustainability.

The Edinburgh International Festival is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We believe that an inclusive culture is the foundation for a successful workplace, and we strive to grow our diverse representation across our staff, our artists, and our audiences.

We are collecting data to measure the effectiveness of our recruitment methods, to ensure that they are fair. We strive to ensure our opportunities are accessible to people from all backgrounds.

We actively encourage applications from currently under-represented groups. We have identified ethnic minority backgrounds, and disabilities as the key areas we would like to focus our recruitment efforts in.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Tuesday 6 May 2025.

Interviews will be held the week commencing 12 May 2025.

Funded by The City of Edinburgh Council and Creative Scotland.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with fundraising codes of ethics and practice.
• Generating income from key fundraising sources including Trusts and Foundations, individual giving, and corporate sponsorship.
• Identifying strategic opportunities for future fundraising and income generation.
• Fundraising Management: to identify new fundraising opportunities and write funding proposals.
• Relationship Management: to ensure donors, supporters, and partners are kept up-to-date and communicated with in a timely manner, while also ensuring they are credited appropriately across Stills’ marketing and communications.
• Fundraising Admin: to manage ongoing fundraising projects, keep track of timelines and lead on fundraising target management.
• Venue Hire: to respond to enquiries, manage agreements and oversee hires.
• Trusts & Foundations: to ensure new contracts are filed, relationships are managed, reports are completed in a timely manner and re-applications are submitted where appropriate.
• Individual Giving: to maintain and manage Stills’ Friends Scheme, Gift Aid forms and Patrons Scheme.
• Sponsorship: to arrange in-kind sponsorship activity with current sponsors where required.
• Photobooth: to manage partnership requests and respond to customer enquiries.
• Events: to assist with Stills public programme of events and work across the team to keep VIP mailing lists up-to-date.

Please note we are also interested in hearing from freelance fundraisers and grant writers. Please email vivienne.gamble@stills.org for further details.

• Hybrid: Edinburgh office at WHALE Arts / Project locations in Edinburgh and Fife, with some work required across Scotland and possibly internationally.
• Closing: 29th April 2025.

About Starcatchers:

We champion exceptional, innovative arts and creative experiences for our youngest children, those aged from birth to 5 years old and their parents and carers. The voice, needs, and interests of this audience are at the heart of all our activity, providing inspiration and provocation in the development of projects and programmes. Our work is created by highly specialist artists who are attuned to the requirements of making work for and with this unique age group. Supported by nearly 20 years of high-quality work, evidenced through research and evaluation, Starcatchers is recognised around the world as being at the forefront of artistic practice for Early Years.

Primary Purpose:

This is a new role within a refreshed Starcatchers Staff Team for 2025/26 and beyond. The post-holder will be pivotal in the development of our Community Engagement activity leading on the implementation of this work, supporting the specialist Starcatchers Artists who lead on delivery, nurturing existing and seeding new relationships within communities and securing funding to sustain activity moving forward.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Community Engagement:

• To lead on the development and delivery of all Starcatchers' Community Engagement activity including current programmes.
• Seed new activities in line with organisational priorities.
• To ensure the implementation of a continuous improvement framework within the team.
• To ensure the principles of Starcatchers Voice of the Baby research are embedded and reflected in artistic practice.
• To ensure the participation of the babies, young children, parents, and carers who engage in Starcatchers activity is evident in all aspects of service delivery.
• To develop and maintain relationships with partners to support the delivery and potential future development of project activity.
• To oversee the implementation of research and evaluation surveys across all Community Engagement activity and provide feedback and figures for reporting, evaluation, and development purposes.
• To manage the Community Engagement budgets and ensure delegated budgets operate within organisational monitoring and reporting arrangements.
• To regularly attend Community Engagement sessions and provide support to delivery staff.
• To ensure the Health & Safety policy is implemented in accordance with best practice and all activity is planned to include risk-assessment and compliance with Health and Safety and event management regulations.
• To ensure the effective implementation of Starcatchers policies and procedures.
• To provide line management support to the Community Engagement Artists.
• To identify and apply for funding for Community Engagement programmes, both existing and new initiatives.
• To support or lead on reporting to funders as required.

General:

• To play an active role in the strategic development of Starcatchers as a member of the Management Team.
• To fully participate in company meetings and events as required.
• To contribute to the ongoing fundraising of the organisation as required.
• To attend relevant training as and when required.
• To positively represent Starcatchers at events.
• Any other duties appropriate to the post and organisation.

Art27 Scotland is an arts and human rights organisation, looking for a part-time organised, collaborative and flexible General Manager to oversee our day-to-day operations and grow the company.

Art27 Scotland is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and takes its mission from Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that “everyone has the right freely to participate in cultural life and to enjoy the arts”. We explore how contemporary arts, cultural practice and ideas can defend culture as a human right through great art and storytelling. We work through socially engaged practice and curate a multi-artform programme of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes we believe are urgent for our time e.g. migration, climate change and democracy.

Please see full details in Job Pack attached.

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