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We are committed to creating an organisation that inspires making, empowers learning and nurtures craft businesses


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  • Collect 2020 at Somerset House. Image: Iona Wolff

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Chief Executive

Crafts Council believes craft skills and knowledge enrich and uplift us as individuals and can change our world for the better. Through its activities, Crafts Council inspires making, empowers learning and nurtures craft businesses by championing craft and its positive impact on society, increasing levels of craft education and participation, growing the market for craft, and building a sustainable and inclusive craft sector. Diversity of all kinds enriches creative practice and Crafts Council recognises the moral, economic, and social reasons to make diversity, inclusion and equality central to its work.

Having been through an exciting period of transformation and expansion, Crafts Council now seeks candidates for the role of Chief Executive. Against the backdrop of a new wider reach to connect with communities across the regions of the UK, the organisation is poised to take an exciting next step under new leadership. Ideal candidates will be senior leaders with strong strategic and business planning experience and will be an inspiring team leader and a compelling communicator. Exemplary stakeholder management and ambassadorial skills will also be required, as will a commitment to promoting equality and diversity and a sound understanding of the cultural sector, its challenges and opportunities.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Crafts Council on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference PABDGA. Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours).

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Digital Marketing Officer

We’re seeking an enthusiastic and creative individual to become part of our dedicated and friendly communications team at the Crafts Council, the national charity for craft.

We believe craft skills and knowledge enrich and uplift us as individuals and can change our world for the better. We want someone who can join us to help share this message and bring stories of craft from across the UK to life for our digital audiences.

We’re looking for someone with a passion for making a connection with a diverse range of audiences, a natural social content producer who feels at home across all social channels.

Through an insight led and content-rich approach you will lead on our social media strategy to share relevant and Inspiring content to 500,000 followers across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and lead on managing our e-communications mailing lists to 38,000 subscribers.

If you feel that you have the qualities to make a difference and the desire to help build a stronger organisation, then we are very interested in hearing from you.

To find out more please download the job description and person specification.
To apply, please click the button below.

  • Applications close: 9am, Monday 13 June
  • Interviews: w/c 20 June
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Creative Coordinator

We are looking for a motivated and organised Creative Coordinator to work with our creative teams at the Crafts Council, providing administrative support across marketing, editorial and public programmes.

Combining coordinated support for the Creative Director with rigorous administration, you will be liaising with artists, project managers, funders and Crafts Council colleagues to help deliver a varied programme. This includes exhibitions and talks in the newly reopened Craft Council Gallery, the print publication Crafts magazine and digital content creation across our platforms.   

We are looking for someone with strong administrative skills, an enthusiasm for craft and making, and a versatile and flexible approach to coordinating tasks, people and activities.


To find out more please download the job description and person specification.
To apply, please click the button below.

  • Applications close: 9am, Wednesday 15 June
  • Interviews: w/c 27 June
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Staff benefits

We are committed to taking care of our staff and offer a number of benefits including:

Pay
We are committed to paying above the London Living Wage, therefore we offer competitive salaries with annual reviews.

Pension
Our pension scheme includes generous employer contributions. If you contribute 3%, we’ll contribute 7%.

Holiday
We appreciate that regular holiday is essential for you to be at your best. Our staff enjoy 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. This increases by one day a year (after five years of service).

Sick pay
We don’t want you to worry about money while unwell, so we offer a generous sick pay scheme – giving up to 65 days basic pay in any rolling 12-month period.

Flexible working
We understand that our staff don’t leave their home life at the door! As such, we offer flexible working hours, give team members a paid day off if they move home and offer everyone an additional five days of paid leave a year for home care emergencies.

Family Leave We are fully committed to helping our working parents achieve a work life balance, and encourage all staff to take leave during the early weeks following birth or adoption. As a result we have very generous company maternity, adoption and paternity policies paying up to 16 weeks of enhanced pay.

Season ticket loan
After your first six months, you can apply for an interest-free season ticket loan to cover the cost of a travel season ticket.

Cycle to work scheme
We help you save money on purchasing your bike and accessories.

Employee assistance programme
We are committed to our team's wellbeing and provide them with an online source of self-help and wellbeing information on a wide range of topics, focused on helping them lead and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

If you are interested in working with us, our current vacancies are listed below. Please note that, due to the size of our team, we are unable to accept speculative applications.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we seek to recruit, develop and retain a team that is fully representative of the diverse community we work with.

We fully support Access to Work applications. If you have difficulties submitting your application in writing, please contact us on +44 (0)20 7806 2500 and we can discuss alternative ways to do this. If you would like more information about interview accessibility before applying for a role, please see the guide we have here.

We also understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all our roles.

Recruitment privacy statement

We regard the good management of personal data as crucial to the success of our business.  We ensure that Crafts Council respects privacy and treats personal data lawfully and correctly.  To find out more about the personal information we hold about our job applicants and how this information is used during the recruitment process please see the full privacy statement here.


  • Crafts Council participation workshop in the gallery

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

We are committed to recruiting, developing and retaining a staff team fully representative of the diverse community we work with. We particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in the sector, including disabled applicants and applicants from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse backgrounds.

For all our internal staff vacancies we guarantee to interview any disabled applicant, and/or any applicant who identifies as Black, Asian and ethnically diverse, whose application meets the essential criteria for the role. These are detailed in the person specification in the job pack. If you wish to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this on the Guaranteed Interview Scheme section of the application form.

Freelance opportunities (those where an individual is contracted to provide a specific service to the organisation), currently fall out of the remit of the scheme. We are committed to also increasing the diversity of our freelance team and are exploring ways we can do this effectively. 

If you would like more information on the scheme please download the Guaranteed Interview Scheme Guide.

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  • Crafts Council is committed to employing and retaining people who are or become disabled

  • Crafts Council is an approved Living Wage employer

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