Strategic Cultural Development Producer

This is a development-phase role focused on planning, readiness, and partnership, not programme delivery. This role exists to develop, position, and prepare a Consortium-owned portfolio of investable propositions, supporting the Consortium in moving from ambition to readiness with purpose and at pace.

Supported by and accountable to a cross-sector consortium, we’re seeking to co-create with a Strategic Producer.

As an experienced, values-led Strategic Producer motivated by civic impact, your focus will be on aligning people, resources, governance, and timing – rather than delivering projects or managing programmes. Your role will be to clarify priorities, build investment readiness, and develop a credible pipeline of phased income.

We are looking for someone who has worked at the intersection of culture, policy, and decision-making, with the ability to shape credible, fundable propositions within complex funding environments. You will enjoy bringing people together across sectors, developing shared agendas, and creating the conditions for sustained civic engagement and shared ownership. You may come from fundraising, partnerships, commissioning, cultural strategy, civic development, or impact investment backgrounds, but you are not defined by any single pathway.

In this context, ‘Producer’ refers to cultural and civic development-shaping the conditions, partnerships, and investment readiness required for the project, rather than producing specific cultural outputs or event delivery

• Contract: Freelance / Self-employed
• Commitment: Approximately 2 days per week (flexible and milestone-based) over 6 months.
• Base: The role is based at the Arnolfini in Bristol, though flexibility can be agreed by arrangement.
• Start Date: April or May 2026 by agreement.
• Fee: £12,000, a fixed fee for the duration of the contract.
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