Culture Manager

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hounslow's Culture and Events Team for a maternity cover as a Culture Manager.

As a senior member of the team, you will help shape and deliver the Council's cultural ambitions, leading programmes, partnerships and initiatives that contribute to community wellbeing, place-making, social cohesion and economic growth. You will play a key role in delivering the borough's Culture Strategy and associated action plans, ensuring culture contributes to wider Corporate Plan priorities.

You will lead major cultural programmes, including Summer of Culture, manage strategic relationships with colleagues, cultural organisations, funders, businesses and community stakeholders, and oversee project delivery, governance, budgets and performance.

Alongside programme leadership, you will use evaluation, insight and impact assessment to demonstrate the value of cultural investment, inform decision-making and support future funding and sponsorship opportunities.

This is an opportunity to influence cultural development at a strategic level while leading people, projects and partnerships that make a lasting difference to residents and communities across Hounslow.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Culture and Events Team plays a strategic role in delivering Hounslow's cultural ambitions, working to create a borough-wide, cohesive, ambitious and inclusive offer for arts, heritage and culture. The team works across placemaking, participation, community wellbeing and economic development to ensure culture contributes to the wider priorities of the Council.

Working closely with colleagues, artists, cultural organisations, businesses, community groups and funding bodies, the team delivers a range of cultural programmes and partnerships including Summer of Culture, audience development initiatives and the implementation of the borough's Culture Strategy.

As Culture Manager, you will report to the Head of Culture and Events and provide leadership to Culture Officers, project staff, apprentices and graduates, helping to shape the future direction of culture across the borough.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• You bring significant experience of leading cultural, heritage or creative programmes and understand the opportunities and challenges facing the sector.
• You are a strategic thinker who can turn cultural ambitions into deliverable programmes, partnerships and outcomes.
• You are skilled at building productive relationships and influencing a wide range of stakeholders, including cultural organisations, businesses, funders, community groups, elected members and senior leaders.
• You have experience managing people, budgets, programmes and resources, balancing strategic leadership with effective operational delivery, creating a collaborative and inclusive working environment.
• You value evidence and insight, using evaluation, impact assessment and data to improve services, demonstrate value and inform decision-making.
• You are committed to increasing participation in culture and ensuring opportunities are inclusive, accessible and reflective of Hounslow's diverse communities.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: [email removed]

Interviews for this job will be held September 2026.

(Please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)