All Things Urban

Futurecity is a multidisciplinary culture agency, set up to reflect the burgeoning worldwide interest in culture-driven placemaking and regeneration. Futurecity has encouraged the property sector in the UK to use art and culture as part of a toolkit for providing a contemporary narrative for our towns, cities and urban centres.

Futurecity develops cultural visions for the urban realm, bringing creative people and urban space together to create great places. We work internationally, with 30 live projects in London and globally, to connect city makers with artists, curators, galleries and cultural institutions from commissioning ambitious public art works to producing strategies that unlock the cultural potential of entire districts. We’re seeking a researcher working across government, industry and creative and culture sectors. You’ll get the chance to feed across several teams on international projects of significance and really make ground-breaking changes in the urban realm

- Work efficiently and effectively with qualitative and quantitative data to support all project accounts across Cultural Placemaking and Arts Delivery; pipeline (potential new business) and live (current contracts) as required - Research the work of cultural, urban and local authority organisations, nationally and internationally, to support projects - Research and update the team on relevant UK and overseas government policies relevant to cultural placemaking - Research organisations and programs that promote urban issues and placemaking relevant to Futurecity’s business including creative district and neighbourhood seminars, conferences and events - Research cross-cutting themes of relevance to the Company’s ongoing work and areas of focus, and coordinate FC team development around these themes - Develop and evolve successful case studies system of Futurecity and external projects - Research intellectual ownership, copyright and IP issues to support Futurecity in maintaining ownership and recognition of our ideas and strategies - Create new market research studies - Potential for online publishing

- Team player but self directed - Passionate about accuracy, references and connecting abstracts of trends and plans to form new thinking - You love data AND narrative - You pride yourself on finding the hidden opportunities - Previous relevant experience - You may have started in local authority or dramaturgy or political science. The importance is your skill and interest - Have an interest and basic understanding of cultural placemaking and/or the arts sector - Be able to manage time efficiently and prioritise concurrent tasks

£25-28k per annum

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