Job Description

The RSL works as a voice to celebrate and champion the value of literature, to engage the public in literature, and to honour and encourage great writers. We celebrate the transformative power of literature and champion the great diversity of writing and writers in the UK, from the last 200 years and today.

In November 2020, the RSL launched its five-year 200th birthday festival, RSL 200. Over the coming years, the RSL 200 will explore, interrogate and reimagine the UK’s literary landscape as we celebrate the best in British writing, past, present, and future. Through the festival, the RSL will continue to share literature with the greatest number of people across the UK and beyond, showing the power of literature to shape society and to change and individual life through new and continuing programmes. An important part of the role of the Administration Manager is to support the team in making this project come alive to current and new audiences, readers, and writers.

This is an opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly organised Administration Manager to join the Royal Society of Literature’s small, collaborative team.

In this busy role you will be responsible for providing administrative support to the team alongside the Head of Operations, with specific responsibilities for coordinating the Membership, Fellowship, and Awards and Prizes functions, as well as assisting with events and outreach.

The ability to be self-motivated, maintain high standards and manage a varied workload is essential. You will have excellent communication, numeracy and time management skills, as well as advanced MS Office and IT competency. You will maintain and improve contact databases, keeping up to date with new technologies and working to improve processes and ensure maximum efficiency in a small organisation. Knowledge of the literature/arts sector or charity operations would be an advantage.

You will analyse trends in Membership, working with the Head of Operations, Communications Manager, and external consultants to increase engagement with current audiences, as well as attracting new supporters. Fundraising is a connected to the work of the whole team, so you will collaborate to help drive donations, and increase income generation in line with the organisation’s aims and charitable objectives.

This is an exciting time to join our team as the RSL’s activities continue to grow. While we have a line management structure in place to ensure all are supported, the team do not work in a hierarchical manner and the input and needs of all staff are valued equally. You will ideally have a curious mind, confident to interrogate and question practices, combined with a ‘can do’ attitude, and desire to work somewhere you can have a real impact on the direction of the organisation. We are a highly committed team of people, passionate about our work and are looking for a skilled and capable candidate to help achieve our aims through dedicated and robust administrative support.

MAIN DUTIES

OFFICE, SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES

• We want you to ensure the smooth running of the office, systems and human resources

FINANCE, FUNDRAISING AND GOVERNANCE

• We want you to maintain and improve vital charitable organisational functions

PROGRAMMES: MEMBERSHIP, FELLOWSHIP, EVENTS, AWARDS AND PRIZES

• We want you to be confident with data and use it to inform future decisions

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of three years’ experience of managing the administrative function of an organisation, preferably in the charity or cultural sector.
• Experience of communicating – in person and in writing – with a wide range of stakeholders including writers and other creators, Trustees, and sponsors, ensuring excellent attention to detail at all times.
• Experience of meeting complex challenges to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget.
• Experience of coordinating a wide range of activities and prioritising workload.
• Demonstration of good practice in membership or similar customer loyalty schemes.
• Strong track record of introducing efficiencies and new working practices, and leading improvement.
• Formal support of a team, as well as supervision of some colleagues.

Salary: £29,500-£31,500, dependent on experience

Terms: Full-time, permanent

Place of work: Mix of office (based in central London) and homeworking

Benefits: Pension, employee discount scheme, employee assistance programme, season ticket loan, 25 days holiday – plus bank holidays and two additional days off over Christmas

Deadline: Tuesday 4 October

Please see the job description and person specification on our website for full details on the role. Applications are only accepted through our website, using the online form.

Literature for everyone

The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe literature is for everyone, people of all ethnicities, gender identities, disabilities, cultures, religions/beliefs, sexual orientations or ages. We are a queer/female-led team that is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We prize integrity, creativity and thoughtfulness. As such, we encourage applications from people under-represented in the creative industries, particularly candidates from the global majority, and disabled candidates.

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Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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