Sponsorship & Brand Activation Manager

Southbank Centre passionately believes the arts have the power to transform lives. This vision attracts over 25 million visits a year. Our employees are at the centre of delivering our mission,which is ‘To draw everyone possible to this loved site and captivate them through our unique arts programme and warmth of our welcome’.

The development of the festival approach to our artistic programming and entrepreneurial activity has dramatically increased the number of people who come to Southbank Centre and the time that they spend here. A growing proportion of our work is free to access and is created in participation with a very diverse range of communities and groups. Our festival site attracts hundreds of thousands of people who have never attended a cultural event before.

Role

We are seeking an exceptional individual to work closely with the Head of Corporate Development and Director of Business Development and corporate team colleagues to develop, implement and evaluate sponsorship and brand activation.

The Development team is responsible for securing significant revenue income from a variety of funding sources to support the ambitions of Southbank Centre in close collaboration with all internal departments and external partners.

The successful candidate must be able to approach companies to initiate sponsorship and/or partnership discussions and identify opportunities that would lead to successful partnerships. In addition to the establishing partner opportunities the sponsorship manager will also be responsible for on-boarding and managing ongoing activity.

Person

The role requires an individual who can work across departments, teams and companies to lead partnership activity.

We celebrate diversity in our programming, our audiences and our team. By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to deliver the kind of exciting events and activities you would expect from the Southbank Centre.

Finally - the pace and scale at Southbank Centre can be breathtaking. In addition to our millions of visitors, we work with hundreds of schools and are home to four resident orchestrators. We put on over 2500 new artistic productions, installations and performances a year. This is a remarkable place to work and our people require the ability to think, act and learn with speed and agility.

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We reserve the right to close the advert early if enough applications are received

Closing date for applications : 3rd August 2015, midnight