Senior Creative Operations Manager

Company: Guardian Jobs
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

Who are we? Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for art. With over 142,000 members, we lead the way in pioneering support for an inclusive and welcoming museum and gallery sector across the UK.

Hours: Full Time Contract: Permanent Salary: £44,096 per annum Location: King’s Cross, London

Art Fund works closely with a network of over 1000 museums and responds to their needs and aspirations. We help them expand and diversify collections and workforce, develop curatorial skills, acquire ambitious artworks, and create welcoming, inclusive spaces for communities. With support from members who purchase a National Art Pass, patrons, and donors, we provide grants, encourage visiting and advocate for museums’ essential role and value.

We have diversity, inclusion, and sustainability central to our thinking. The opportunity to be a force for good, galvanise support, and help change things positively inspires our team.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Creative Operations Manager to join our team. Across the organisation, you will interrogate creative briefs, manage production schedules, and keep projects on time and budget. You will plan what needs to happen when, identify ways to improve processes, and ensure creative projects run smoothly. Whether it’s an ad campaign for the National Art Pass, collateral for Museum of the Year, or materials for a fundraising appeal, you will be key to bringing these projects to life.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the digital experience team at one of the UK’s leading arts organisations. If you enjoy bringing order to complexity, keeping things moving, and want a role where your expertise enables great creative work, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Key Employee Benefits

  • Generous Annual leave – 25 days annual leave and bank holidays, with additional non‑contractual office closure dates at Christmas.
  • Free National Art Pass (NAP) – for yourself and another person of your choice.
  • Free entry to exhibitions.
  • Life assurance – cover for up to three times your basic salary.
  • Season ticket loan.
  • Pensions – Eligible employees are enrolled in the scheme with the exception of those who have contracts of three months or less. Art Fund contributes 8% of the basic annual salary during the first six months of employment or until probation is successfully completed, whichever is later. At that point the contribution is increased to 10%.

Closing deadline: 23.59pm on 30 March 2026.

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

We are committed to building our team and trustees from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across the UK, valuing difference and diversity, and building a workplace based on shared values of equality and mutual respect. We encourage applications from all races, ages, religions and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with any kind of disabilities and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our organisation.

Non‑UK nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK. Please note that any suspected use of AI in relation to answering sift questions will be marked down. No agencies please.

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Posted: March 23rd, 2026