About Woolwich Works
Woolwich Works is a multi-million pound cultural hub in the old military buildings of the Royal Arsenal that opened in September 2021. Our spaces include a stunning 1500m2 former factory performance and events venue, rehearsal and performance studios, event spaces, outdoor courtyard and a beautiful, buzzing café bar. We’re home to a number of world class resident artistic companies, including Carlos Acosta Dance Foundation, Chineke! Orchestra, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein and internationally renowned theatre company, Punchdrunk.
This job is being advertised by Woolwich Creative District Trust (the ‘Trust’), an independent not for-profit organisation founded to run Woolwich Works. We’re here to build an exceptional, professional, inclusive creative community that delivers our mission to offer hope and opportunity by enabling people to realise their creative potential.
About this job
The Head of Creative Programmes is the creative lead for Woolwich Works, taking responsibility for the Trust’s owned public performance programme and artistic rentals and collaborating with the Resident Artistic Companies to shape the Trust’s education and community programmes. With the Programme Manager, they will curate a year-round programme of live performance and events including but not limited to music, comedy, workshops, markets, dance and theatre for young audiences across multiple spaces varying from 60 to 1800 capacity and programme directly some defined ‘festival bursts’ of high animation and activity across the site each year.
The Head of Creative Programmes will be expected to lead on audience development and awareness, driving footfall and engagement beyond the performance programme.
As this is a maternity cover position, we would seek to have the successful candidate take up position during June 2024.
Is this job for you?
We’re looking for someone with a successful track record as a commercial programmer, assembling and managing high quality performance and participatory programmes that achieve or exceed target attendances and generate a profit.
You’ll need to be comfortable and practiced with contract negotiations and budgeting, and used to doing show deals and building hire packages. Ideally, you’ll also have experience of devising and delivering learning and participation programmes, and the ability to work collaboratively to deliver high quality creative experiences and opportunities is essential.
You’ll be passionate about building a broad and exciting programme of live performance. as well as brokering a deal. You will be a supportive and caring line manager who champions knowledge sharing and you’ll be able to articulate your thinking clearly to the team.
