Vacancies
Bursaries for Artist and Bursaries for Young Creatives
We are awarding 16 bursaries of £2,500 each to Young Creatives, aged 18-25, and Artist from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire or Peterborough who are working in, or want to develop their skills in socially engaged practice.
More info on Bursaries for Young Creatives
More info on Bursaries for Artists
Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 31 October 2025
Volunteers Coordinator
The Volunteers Coordinator will work with our Programme Producer on the recruitment and training of volunteers for the Festival. The Coordinator oversees the volunteers’ support of the Festival by matching their availability, skills and interests to the organisation’s needs. The post holder needs to enjoy working with a range of people, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be confident at data processing and using spreadsheets, as well as having good attention to detail and strong planning skills.
Our volunteer requirements vary depending on the detail of the programming. Most recently in 2025, 138 volunteers completed a total of 2227 hours of volunteering across the Festival.
We anticipate that the role will run from late-January to mid-June.
Deadline: 10am, Tuesday 18 November 2025
Production & Programme Assistants x2
The Production and Programme Assistant roles provide an opportunity to gain valuable first-hand experience of major event delivery and support the team’s Volunteers Coordinator. Assistants will typically attend site visits with Festival artists, support with travel and accommodations bookings or technical requirements, and gain experience in various aspects of delivering multi-artform events, supporting the Production & Programme team in a variety of ways.
We are looking to recruit x2 Production and Programme Assistants. Both people will support with runner schedules, festival logistics and event management. One person will focus more on artist liaison (booking artist travel & accommodation) while the second will focus more on technical support (event set up and sound/lighting requirements).
We anticipate that both roles will run from end of January to mid June.
Deadline: 10am, Tuesday 18 November 2025
Event Managers & Festival Crew
Our requirements for event staff and crew fluctuates each year dependent on our programme of work. If you’re interested in working with us either as an Event Manager or member of our Crew please email a CV to info@nnfestival.org.uk stating which is your preferred role.
We will then add you onto our list of prospects and may contact you if we need some additional support.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival welcomes applicants from a wide mix of people. We are really interested in hearing from people who possess transferable skills but might not have worked in the professional arts sector before. We also welcome applicants from a wide mix of people because we want our workforce to be inclusive of people from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are therefore particularly interested in receiving applications from people who identify as disabled, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people from socio-economic backgrounds that are currently under-represented in the arts.
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