Visual Arts Support Manager

Arts Council; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Arts Council is the government agency for developing the arts in Ireland. We work with artists, organisations, policymakers and others to build a central place for the arts in Irish life.

Two permanent, full-time Visual Arts Support Manager roles exist at the Higher Executive Officer (HEO) grade, based in Dublin and reporting to the Creative Arts Director. The posts will help manage funding programmes, support the Visual Arts team, and oversee related strategy and development initiatives.

Job description

The Arts Council is the government agency for developing the arts in Ireland. We work in partnership with artists, arts organisations, public policy makers and others to build a central place for the arts in Irish life.

Job role

Visual Arts Support Manager

Job type

Higher Executive Officer

Job location

Dublin

19 October 2026

We have 2 exciting, permanent, full-time (35 hours per week) opportunities at the Higher Executive Officer (HEO) grade for Visual Arts Support Manager, a role that reports to the Creative Arts Director.

Role Overview:

As the largest national funder of visual arts, the Arts Council sustains the entire ecology bysupporting a diverse network of artists, organisations, and correspondingly audiences. This role carries a critical responsibility to support the development of the visual arts ecosystem, ensuring public funding is strategically invested, monitored, and optimised.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the management of the Visual ArtsTeam. The team is responsible for policy formulation, development initiatives, funding and relationship management. The role arises due to changing work arrangements; as the development supports, funding schemes and budgets of Council have expanded additional skilled, expert people are needed to deliver and support the work of the team.

Working closely with the permanent Head of Visual Arts, the Visual Arts Support Manager will manage a specific number of funding programmes, including limited relationship management in this area and oversight and sign-off of award payments; support/lead key development initiatives; and motivate and collaborate with the Arts team.

This post holder will report to the Creative Arts Director and will partner the Head of VisualArts across their responsibilities, incl. the management of the team and other Arts Council staff in the implementation of specific cross-organisational projects to deliver the objectives of the ten-year MGAW strategy – Making Great Art Work and future policy and strategy.

Closing date and time

The closing date for receipt of applications is12.00noon,Monday 19 October 2026.

The Arts Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications from all sections of the community under all ten grounds as set out in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy .