Arts Policy Adviser

Posting date:	08 September 2025
Salary:	£35,434 to £39,044 per year
Additional salary information:	National £35,434 - £39,044 + benefits.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 September 2025
Location:	M2 3AW
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	426303/1

Summary

The Arts Team sits within the DCMS Culture Directorate. Our directorate’s role is to support and promote growth in the cultural sectors right across the country, and to realise and maximise the cultural, social and economic benefits these sectors bring to people in the UK. Our team’s focus is on supporting the performing arts and visual arts parts of the cultural sector.

Our team includes the sponsorship team for Arts Council England, as well as several policy teams focused on delivering priority policies for our Ministerial team, including capital investment for arts organisations, creative education, touring and international and several domestic arts policy areas which include working with other government departments on areas such as tax, workforce and skills for our performing and visual arts sectors.

We work closely with our neighbouring creative industries and artificial intelligence directorate on the many cross-cutting policy issues and opportunities facing the creative and cultural sectors. We also work closely with Arts Council England’s policy teams in their delivery role as the national development agency for the arts sector. The team’s work involves contributing to this Government’s Missions on Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity and on Growth.

This role will contribute to three core areas of the Arts team’s work:

Domestic Arts: This role will support arts policy areas including tax levers for the arts sectors, creative health and wellbeing, and improving disability access to the arts. It will include working closely with other Government Departments.

Creative Education: This role will be responsible for developing and promoting policy to improve creative education and to improve cultural access/reduce cultural inequities in England, including for children and young people.

• Develop expertise and build the evidence-base, stakeholder network, sector views etc. on cultural education, access & inequities.
• Use data and evidence to inform policy development and Influence implementation of DfE policy levers on creative education
• Develop new policies to support improvement of cultural education in England, including for improving creative enrichment outside of schools
• Contribute to policy implementation and programme delivery e.g. through writing business cases, negotiation with delivery partners, monitoring and evaluation.

International and Growth issues for arts sector, including:

• Developing expertise on all aspects of international and touring policy in respect of the arts sector.
• Build relationships with experts in DCMS, Arts Council & British Council as well as in arts organisations and sector-representative groups.
• Provide timely and evidenced response to OGD international policy, ensuring they reflect DCMS ministerial objectives and arts sector needs

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