We're hiring: Two job vacancies at Curtis Brown Creative
BY Anna Davis
24th Mar 2021
Two exciting opportunities have arisen at Curtis Brown Creative, the UK’s only agent-led creative writing school.
1. Senior Manager - Courses and Operations
(Maternity cover – full-time, or four days per week subject to discussion)
Reporting to and working closely with the Managing Director, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of our rolling programme of courses and the operations of our day-to-day business, at an exciting time of growth for the company. You will head up the Courses management team (five people) and will play a key role in developing new projects and representing the company and its values.
Start date – 1 June 2021
Applications close – 8 April 2021 – 12 noon
Salary – Competitive salary and attractive benefits package
2. Courses Manager
(Part-time – 2.5 days per week subject to discussion) – from May 2021
This role centres on the smooth running of our online and London-based creative writing courses, as well as our new Breakthrough Writers’ Programme of opportunities for under-represented writers. You’ll be working as part of our Courses management team.
Start date – from 4 May 2021. Start flexible
Applications close – 21 April 2021 – 12 noon
Salary – Competitive salary and attractive benefits package
For both roles: you’ll be joining Curtis Brown Creative’s eight-person team to work initially from home, with daily Zoom meetings, plenty of contact through good communications systems, and a busy schedule of online courses to deliver. We’ll be working from home full-time until circumstances allow us to return to working some of the time in our central London offices. You’ll be working with Curtis Brown Creative’s tutors (all published authors), the Curtis Brown and C&W book agents and some of their clients, and with the many aspiring writers from all over the world who enrol on our courses.
Why choose us?
Curtis Brown Creative is part of The Curtis Brown Group, a combined agency, production and management group.
- We are a passionate group of people who love what we do and enjoy working with each other
- We care about employee wellbeing and offer free yoga and personal training classes, and social club outings to relax and unwind together (currently on Zoom)
- We also offer season ticket loans, a bike to work scheme, enhanced pension contribution up to 5% of your base salary, and private healthcare (after 2 years’ service)
You must have the right to work in the UK (you will be asked to provide original documentation as evidence of this).
We aim to build a creative environment that celebrates the differences of our students and colleagues, offering equal opportunities regardless of gender, race, socio-economic background, age, disability, sexual orientation and national origin. In our role as conduits and champions of cultural expressions we are conscious of our responsibility to reflect the world around us. This means making a considered effort to create an inclusive culture in the workplace and promote opportunities for the broadest possible range of talent. We welcome all applications from people with interesting ideas, skills and experience.
Please click on the applicable link below to download the full job description:
Senior Manager full job description (applications closed)
Courses Manager full job description (applications closed)
To apply to either role, please send:
- Your CV
- A covering letter outlining why you feel you would be ideal for the role (please include details of the dates you are available to start, and salary expectations)
We would like these materials as Word or PDF documents attached to an email. Please send to jobs@curtisbrown.co.uk and please ensure that you put Senior Manager – Courses and Operations, Curtis Brown Creative or Courses Manager – Curtis Brown Creative (as applicable) in the subject line of your email.
For both roles we anticipate an interview process with at least two stages, and those selected for interview will be asked to complete and submit a written test.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process.