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Culture,

Leisure

& Heritage

Enrich Lives, Celebrate Communities

Culture, leisure, and heritage roles bring people together, promote wellbeing, and celebrate the identity of our communities. Whether you're running a local library, curating museum exhibitions, leading fitness sessions, or organising public events, your work helps make Greater Manchester a vibrant, inclusive, and inspiring place to live.

These roles are ideal for people who are passionate about creativity, community engagement, and making a positive social impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

Depending on your role, you might be delivering reading programmes in libraries, leading fitness classes, curating exhibitions, managing events, or supporting volunteers. You’ll be helping people access culture, stay active, learn new things, and feel connected to their local area.

Your work will support wellbeing, inclusion, and lifelong learning across Greater Manchester’s diverse communities — from city centres to rural towns.

Skills & Qualities We Look For

In Greater Manchester, we’re building a future where every employee can thrive. That’s why we value professionals who are:

  1. Creative and Enthusiastic

    Bring your energy, imagination and proactive mindset to tasks and interactions. It's a blend of thinking differently to create new ideas and express genuine excitement that inspires others.

  2. Friendly, approachable and community minded

    Create a welcoming environment where people will feel comfortable engaging with you. You'll be easy to talk to & demonstrate a genuine interest in helping others in the community learn.

  3. Organised and adaptable

    Working hours likely will include evening/weekend work so having a flexible approach, to meet your employers needs is important. Managing your time, tasks and resources in a clear, structured way is important to deliver excellent customer service to members of the public.

  4. Passionate about inclusion and accessibility

    Create a space where everyone, regardless of background, ability or circumstance, feels welcomed, respected and able to fully participate.

  5. Committed to delivering great experiences for residents and visitors

    You'll take pride in creating memorable and meaningful moments for everyone. This commitment strengthens community relationships and makes visitors likely to return to these environments.

Roles That Shape Futures

Many roles are open to people from a wide range of backgrounds - what matters most is your energy, ideas, and commitment to public service.

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Catering

Plan, prepare and serve tasty food and beverages at events.

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Hospitality

Create positive guest experiences making people feel welcome, comfortable and cared for.

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Sport & Fitness Instruction

Help people improve their physical health and wellbeing through motivation and expert guidance.

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Museum & Gallery

Care for collections, support exhibitions, engage visitors and ensure a smooth running of public spaces.

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Library

Help people access information, support learning & manage a collection of physical/digital resources.

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Events

Plan, organise & support events. From management, logistics & technical roles, all are important to ensure events run smoothly.

Ready to build your career in Culture, Leisure & Heritage?