Creative & Cultural Advocacy Lead

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You'll join the Creative & Cultural Advocacy team within Corporate Affairs, working as part of a Solutions Matrix team focused on one of Wellcome's strategic priority areas, particularly Climate & Health.

Working across multidisciplinary teams, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues in Communications, Research, Policy & Partnerships, Wellcome Collection and senior leaders across the organisation. You'll also build relationships with leading creative and cultural organisations, artists, producers, commissioners and partners across the UK and internationally to help deliver Wellcome's engagement and influencing ambitions.

What will I be doing?

As Creative & Cultural Advocacy Lead, you'll develop and lead ambitious programmes that use creativity and culture to build public support and inspire decision-makers to take action on Wellcome's strategic priorities.

You'll oversee programmes from strategy through to delivery; ensuring an effective portfolio of activities, embedding effective delivery, governance, evaluation, project and risk management throughout. You'll lead multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver high-impact creative and cultural advocacy initiatives and events, ensuring they are insight-led, strategically aligned and integrated with wider communications, policy and engagement activity.

You'll build and maintain influential partnerships across the creative and cultural sectors, identifying innovative opportunities to engage audiences and amplify Wellcome's work through compelling cultural experiences and engagement programmes.

You'll also play a key leadership role within the Creative & Cultural Advocacy team by developing people, strengthening ways of working, contributing to team strategy and helping shape the future direction of Wellcome's creative engagement activity.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please submit an up-to-date CV and answer two application question demonstrating how you meet the minimum requirements below.

Minimum Criteria:

• Strong sector connections and significant experience in leading impactful, collaborative creative & cultural advocacy sector initiatives to build public support and emotionally engage decision makers and knowledge of innovative practice in this field – particularly for Climate & Health.

• Strong experience of programme and line management – ability to develop ambitious programmes and effectively performance manage, recruit, develop and motivate people to deliver these.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to listen, establish rapport, credibility and collaborative relationships across multiple departments and at all levels – particularly senior leadership - across Wellcome and with external partners

• Strong partnership development skills, able to identify, build and activate strategic partnerships to deliver – and stay on track with - Wellcome’s priorities, both internally and externally

• Diplomatic and politically savvy, able to demonstrate leadership, hold accountability and demonstrate good judgement in managing internal and external reputational risk