Working here

We are committed to creating an organisation that inspires making, empowers learning and nurtures craft businesses. Scroll this page to find out about our current vacancies, staff benefits, and accessibility.

If you have any questions, please email recruitment@craftscouncil.org.uk

Staff benefits

We are committed to taking care of our staff and offer a number of benefits including:

Pay
We are committed to paying above the London Living Wage, therefore we offer competitive salaries with annual reviews.

Pension
Our pension scheme includes generous employer contributions. If you contribute 3%, we’ll contribute 7%.

Holiday
We appreciate that regular holiday is essential for you to be at your best. Our staff enjoy 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. This increases by one day a year (after five years of service).

Sick pay
We don’t want you to worry about money while unwell, so we offer a generous sick pay scheme – giving up to 65 days basic pay in any rolling 12-month period.

Flexible working
We understand that our staff don’t leave their home life at the door! As such, we offer flexible working hours, give team members a paid day off if they move home and offer everyone an additional five days of paid leave a year for home care emergencies.

Family Leave
We are fully committed to helping our working parents achieve a work life balance, and encourage all staff to take leave during the early weeks following birth or adoption. As a result we have very generous company maternity, adoption and paternity policies paying up to 16 weeks of enhanced pay.

Season ticket loan
After your first six months, you can apply for an interest-free season ticket loan to cover the cost of a travel season ticket.

Cycle to work scheme
We help you save money on purchasing your bike and accessories.

Employee assistance programme
We are committed to our team's wellbeing and provide them with an online source of self-help and wellbeing information on a wide range of topics, focused on helping them lead and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Recruitment privacy statement
We regard the good management of personal data as crucial to the success of our business.  We ensure that Crafts Council respects privacy and treats personal data lawfully and correctly.  To find out more about the personal information we hold about our job applicants and how this information is used during the recruitment process please read our recruitment privacy statement.

Equity and Inclusion

We aspire to remove barriers and be open to all and strongly encourage applications from individuals currently underrepresented in the creative and cultural sectors. This includes but is not limited to people of African or Caribbean heritage; Arabic heritage; Latin American heritage; East Asian, South Asian and South East Asian heritage; people from traveller communities; disabled people; LGBTQIA+ people and people from a low-income background.

• ​we fully support Access to Work applications.
• ​to apply for the role, you must be eligible to work in the UK - Crafts Council is not a sponsoring Organisation.
• we welcome applications in written, audio or video formats.
• if you would like more information about accessibility before applying to a role or attending an interview, please refer to our access document.
• to submit applications in an alternative format or to request information in an alternative format, please email recruitment@craftscouncil.org.uk