River Culture Animateur for the lower Tweed
p/t 0.6 (21 hrs per week)

£30,900 pa (£18,540 pa pro rata)

Deadline to apply: 9am Monday 9th March 2026

For more information on the role and how to apply, click here to download the River Culture Animateur Job Pack

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Connecting Threads project team. We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic individual, with a background in cultural placemaking and/or participatory arts, to develop and deliver a programme of cultural activities in the lower Tweed area (Kelso to Berwick-upon-Tweed). The role is part of a creative team, working alongside two other River Culture Animateurs, a River Messenger, and a River Culture Curator.

Connecting Threads is the cultural strand of Destination Tweed, a multi-part, landscape-scale project that includes the development of a new River Tweed Trail from source to sea. Connecting Threads is a creative project that responds to the River Tweed, its habitats, ecologies, communities and culture. We connect creative practitioners with river specialists and communities of place and purpose, to celebrate the River Tweed through our programme of cultural activity along the length of the Tweed within the Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway and north Northumberland.

Connecting Threads is delivered in partnership with Tweed Forum and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and others. The programme is delivered by a team of five and is in the fourth year of a five-year delivery phase. The project is managed by the Southern Uplands Partnership (SUP), a charity with 25 years’ experience of developing and delivering sustainable development projects across the south of Scotland.

For more information visit sup.org.uk/vacancy-river-culture-animateur-southern-uplands-partnership-2/