Jobs & Call-outs

Bedford Creative Arts is seeking to recruit a dynamic and creative marketing professional who is passionate about working with communities and thrives on a challenge.    

Supported by our senior management team, you will use a range of marketing tools to communicate the exciting work of the charity. You’ll take responsibility for handling digital content creation for our website, social media channels and newsletters and reporting on their effectiveness, as well as organising print, photography and videography to promote our work.     

You’ll be creative at ensuring our communication channels reach the right audiences for a diverse range of projects across different artforms. 

We’re looking for someone with drive to develop their career in the arts, not just as a marketing professional but as someone passionate about working for a Bedford charity. We’re looking to meet someone with energy; keen to learn, keen to experiment and keen to help us learn from what you can bring to the team.   

We’re looking for someone with experience of marketing in a relevant sector, confident developing and executing marketing campaigns across different channels.    

You’ll be efficient at organising your own workload and managing competing priorities.   You’ll be a highly effective communicator and a real team player – excited at the prospect of joining a small organisation with a close-knit team of collaborators equally passionate about the people we reach with our work.      

We actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds with different experiences, skills and stories to join us and influence our working practice. We are particularly keen to hear from people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented on our staff team including people from UK minority ethnic backgrounds and candidates who self-identify as disabled, neurodivergent, male, non-binary or trans and/or LGBTQ+.   

Bedford Creative Arts is an arts charity that has been producing socially-engaged arts projects for 40 years that explore issues of social justice, challenge the status quo and raise questions that have the potential to influence practice and policy-making. We are a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England delivering an ambitious programme of commissions for, by, and with communities across Bedfordshire.   

Terms and Conditions : 

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week (full time).  We are open to discussion about flexible working.      

Contract: This is a permanent employment contract with a 3 month probationary period.    

Salary: £28,500 per annum.        

Location: Hybrid.  You will be required to work from home or at on-site locations in Bedford.   

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment.     

Flexibility is required to attend occasional events outside office hours.    

Benefits:  

• BCA offers 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays.   
• We offer a NEST pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.   
• Access to IT & equipment to enable efficient home-working can be provided.      

We’d love to hear from people currently under-represented in our staff team including people from UK minority ethnic backgrounds and candidates who self-identify as disabled, neurodivergent, male, non-binary or trans and/or LGBTQ+. 

Application deadline: 9am, Mon 15th September 2025 

Interviews: Thursday 25th September 2025 

For details of how to apply, download our full Recruitment Pack below.

Bedford Creative Arts are seeking an Administrator to join our small, creative team in this new permanent position.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to become a crucial part of an exciting, charitable arts organisation – acting as the lynchpin for our projects and processes – without needing to be a creative practitioner yourself. 

We’re looking for someone who likes the friendly nature of a small, close-knit team who are working hard to deliver creative work that benefits communities. 

We need you to be highly organised and able to work independently – quickly able to understand what needs doing and able to seek the most efficient way of doing it.  A confident user of Microsoft IT systems and cloud-based software, you’ll have a high-level of attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

When the rest of the team is at the coalface of community-delivery, you’ll be back at the ranch making sure the systems are organised ready for everyone’s return.  Then you’ll be at the heart of planning for the next adventure.    

This position is not well suited to someone who likes to be out and about at live events or someone would like to develop creative producing skills.  This role is perfect for someone who wants a job they can do at a desk, through a combination of physical and virtual meetings from the comfort of their home and Bedford workspaces. 

Terms and Conditions

Hours of Work: This position is offered for 37.5 hours per week (full-time).  We are open to discussion about reduced hours and flexible working. 

Contract: This is a permanent employment contract with a 3-month probationary period. 

Salary: The post is offered at £26,000 per annum. 

Location: We offer hybrid working.  You will be required to work from home or at on-site locations in Bedford Borough with a minimum of 1 day per work worked in our co-working space.  No travel expenses will be provided for travel between your home location & Bedford Borough (commuting).

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment.   

Benefits:

• BCA offers 25 days (5 weeks) holiday per annum plus bank holidays.
• We offer a NEST pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
• Access to IT & equipment to enable efficient homeworking can be provided.   
• Access to a desk in an open-plan co-working space can be provided full-time if homeworking is not reasonably practicable. 

We’d love to hear from people currently under-represented in our staff team including people from UK minority ethnic backgrounds and candidates who self-identify as disabled, neurodivergent, male, non-binary or trans and/or LGBTQ+. 

Application Deadline: 9am, 29^th Sept 2025

Interview Date: 9^th October 2025

For details of how to apply, download our full Recruitment Pack below.