Freedom Festival is looking for an Executive Director to join our Senior Leadership team, working with the Festival Director and staff team. Have you got the skills and experience we’re after?
Taking on a role that will focus on the growth of the organisation as an internationally recognised festival, the individual will have skills in leadership and strategic, logistical, and operational practices. It’s important that the right candidate will cultivate an inclusive and positive organisational culture within the team, with a drive for the trust to realise its objectives and ambitions.
We’re looking for a candidate who has:
• Experience working in a senior leadership role.
• Experience and knowledge of charity sector or publicly funded organisations.
• Demonstrable experience of sound financial management and reporting.
• Demonstrable experience of contract management including but not limited to employee and freelance HR, project and service contracts with venues, co-commissioning and co-presenting contracts, external producers and funder contracts.
• Commitment to diversity and equal opportunities.
• Ability to manage a broad and complex workload with multiple deadlines.
• A versatile and adaptable approach to work with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• An interest and passion for FFAT’s aims and programmes and understanding of the festival’s place in the local, national and international cultural ecology.
• The focus and tenacity to push through complex procedures.
• Due to the tight turnaround of this appointment, all candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Experience working with Arts Council England NPO, preparing management and annual accounts and any experience or qualification in finances or accounting is desirable but not essential.
Download and read the full job pack below, and if you have any queries, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us: recruitment@freedomfestival.co.uk
This will be a paid, 0.8 FTE (4 days per week) role on a 6-month fixed-term contract with potential to extend.
Deadline for applications is 11:59pm, Sunday 30th March 2025.
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