Festival Connect & Create Administrator

Festival Connect & Create Administrator

Norfolk & Norwich Festival Closing date: Mon, 30 Nov 2026

Artform: Combined arts
Role: Admin, Secretarial & PA
Contract: Permanent
East

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 "> published -

Job Summary

We are looking for an Administrator to support Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s Connect & Create team in the development and delivery of the Festival's creative engagement initiatives.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to support a number of programmes and activities across the region. The role will gain insight into working with artists, schools and young people, delivering workshops, training and place based activity. We're looking for someone who has a good attention to detail and can manage a varied workload.

Festival Connect & Create (FC&C) is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival initiative to improve the creative and cultural lives of children and young people and their communities in East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Peterborough and Cambridgeshire). FC&C activates creative people and cultural communities by connecting leaders, delivering interventions and sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences. FC&C contributes to NNF's mission to lead and support celebration, creativity and curiosity in our community to make our part of the world a great place to live, learn, work and play.

We believe in the value of creative and cultural participation to develop creative potential and support social, cultural and economic wellbeing.

FC&C is instrumental in Norfolk & Norwich Festival's partnership working to support creativity in communities in places of need.

This is a part time (0.6fte), permanent role.

Job Requirements

It is essential that the Festival Connect & Create Administrator has:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organisational, administrative and numerical skills.
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise.
- Experience of data management.
- An understanding of Safeguarding.
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in artistic and learning programmes.

It is desirable the Festival Connect & Create Administrator has:
- Knowledge of the cultural and/or educational ecologies across East Anglia.
- Experience of working in the cultural and/or education sector.
- An understanding of working with children and young people
- An understanding of working with artists.

Job Responsibilities

1. Provide administration support to the Festival Connect & Create team including, but not limited to - managing general correspondences, servicing meetings by booking rooms and taking minutes, gathering evaluation data across activities and organising travel as needed.
2. Work closely with other NNF teams to ensure a cross-organisation approach to internal processes.
3. Support the FC&C team with the administration and delivery of artistic programmes which includes but not limited to: preparing artist contracts, tracking and filing bursary and grant applications, answering project enquiries.
4. Undertake the team's evaluation training in order to coordinate and Most Significant Change stories through in-person interviews with programme beneficiaries.
5. Be an advocate for Norfolk & Norwich festival and represent the organisation at events and networking opportunities, and provide extra event support as directed by programme leads.

See the job pack for a full list of duties.

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Job Overview

  • Job Title: Festival Connect & Create Administrator
  • Salary: £25k-£30k (pro-rata)
  • Hours: Part time
  • Artform: Combined arts
  • Role: Admin, Secretarial & PA
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Closing date: Mon, 30 Nov 2026
  • Location:
    East
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Job: Festival Connect & Create Administrator

Job: Festival Connect & Create Administrator

Organisation: Norfolk & Norwich Festival

Postcode: NR21JS

How to Apply

Applicants need to complete Norfolk & Norwich Festival's Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

The Application Form should be submitted, via email, to [email protected] while the Equal Opportunities Form can be completed online.

Applications will be anonymised for shortlisting, therefore additional documents or links submitted will not be included. CVs will not be accepted in lieu of an Application Form.

In shortlisting and interviewing, the panel will use the person specification to decide the suitability of candidates.

For the supporting statement in section 3 of the application form, we encourage you to use examples to demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the criteria in the person specification.

If you require the forms in large print or would like a paper copy posting to you please contact [email protected].

Deadline: 10am, Monday 30 November
Interviews: Monday 7 December