Venture Partners are at the core of Purposeful Ventures’ work. Our Venture Partners provide the intellectual capital and the skills and experience that allow Purposeful Ventures, and all the ventures and projects we work with, to thrive and deliver social impact.

We are looking for a Venture Partner – Music and Arts to lead and develop a portfolio which aims to transform children and young people’s participation in, and opportunity to excel in, music and the arts, particularly those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

We currently have five institutions in our classical music portfolio, focused on developing elite talent. You will lead on setting our expansion strategy, utilising your strong analytical skills and depth of sector knowledge to identify and address systemic issues. You will grow the portfolio of grants and ventures beyond elite talent, moving earlier into the education phases of the pipeline, and expanding beyond classical music.

You will work with mission-driven organisations and incubated ventures, partnering with them at a strategic level to support, challenge and inspire senior leadership to provide the strategic and operational plans needed to turn great programmes into sustainable and high-impact ventures and systemic change.

To excel in this role you will be an analytical and strategic thinker with exceptional stakeholder engagement skills. You will be excited to work with entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts alike, and use your strategic, operational and sector knowledge to build organisations and start-ups which deliver significant social impact and systemic change across music and the arts.

Please download the full job description on the Purposeful Ventures website

Responsibilities and duties

• Working with the Purposeful Ventures leadership team to build our Music and Arts Strategy, and expand our funder base in this area. 
• Working with the Purposeful Ventures leadership team and portfolio directors to identify and build a thriving community of mission-driven organisations. 
  
• Working with our partners and incubated ventures to develop their strategies to deliver their mission and greatest impact.
  
• Supporting our partners and incubated ventures to build the organisations, teams, governance and capabilities that will give them the best chance of success. 

Key Requirements

Essential

• Passionate about transforming children and young people’s participation in, and opportunity to excel in, music and the arts.
• Strong working knowledge of the current music and arts ecosystems, within the education system and/or the music and arts sectors, including trends, policy and key funders.
• Demonstrable experience in both strategic and analytical roles, such as project management in strategy consultancy, leadership in a government delivery role and/or leadership roles in a charity or an education setting, particularly within music, arts or related sectors.
• Demonstrable track record of leading project and / or organisational success and delivering impact.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability, tools and frameworks to apply logical, critical and methodical process to deconstruct information, identify problems and causes and present solutions and options: an at individual, organisational and sector level.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills with experience of managing and aligning multiple stakeholders and agendas.
• Ability to supportively build capacity within teams and organisations to enhance effectiveness and impact.
• Effective, engaging and nuanced communicator, written and verbal, including the ability to structure and articulate complex information for internal and external audiences.
• Flexible, highly organised, and able to multi-task and prioritise work to meet deadlines.
• Tenacious and able to work in an agile environment with multiple start-ups, and comfortable with the ambiguity that may come with this.
• Right to work in the UK.

Desirable

• Experience in start-up development, including launching and growing new ventures.
• A proven track record in scaling organisations and driving sustainable growth.
• Direct experience of working in senior management or board level within a charity, contributing to strategic direction and governance.