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Closing date: 30th November at 11.59pm

Salary: £25,000 per annum

Want to join Southbank Centre? Working closely with the producers and wider artistic team, you'll be instrumental in providing producing support for festivals and events.

Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site at the heart of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the south bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is home to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and The Hayward as well as The National Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection.

Southbank Centre’s broad performing arts programme covers classical and contemporary music, dance and performance, literature and the spoken word, taking place across its venues, outdoors across our 11 acre site and in virtual space. The Programming team work with the Artistic Director to create an inspiring programme that is relevant to our times and excites diverse audiences.

We are looking for a Producing Assistant (Maternity Cover) to join our Producing and Event Management team.

The Producing team work on festivals, events and seasons across all artforms and Public Programming activity. Recently our team have delivered Meltdown festival curated by Grace Jones, London Literature Festival featuring Greta Thunberg and Rob Delaney, Imagine childrens festival and many more throughout the year. Our team delivers events with artists such as Margaret Atwood, Erykah Badu and Sally Rooney to name but a few. We care about our artists, our audiences and local residents with our location in the heart of Lambeth and we have a considerable programme of events available free at the point of entry bringing people together, and bringing unbeatable cultural experiences to underrepresented audiences.

The majority of Southbank Centre artistic events take place Wednesday to Sunday and the post-holder should expect to work some evenings and weekends as required.

Responsibilities

• To provide logistical and producing support on Festivals and Events at Southbank Centre, working closely with the Producers
• Artifax set-ups, event on sales, event contracting, payment processing, artists visas, travel and accommodation, event delivery support, minute taking, collating festival statistics, and any other duties as required. To be a key point of contact and support within the Event Management and Producing team, liaising with and providing a high standard of support to internal colleagues, artists, partners, producers and promoters as required.
• To work with the Producers to provide administrative support for the team and enable the successful delivery of Festivals and Events.
• To be part of a team which is positive, energetic, creative and supportive.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Has excellent communication skills and the ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Has excellent administration skills, with a methodical approach and attention to detail
• Has good time management skills and proven ability to work to, meet and ensure others meet deadlines
• Is highly effective at multi-tasking
• Has the ability to work effectively under pressure, to prioritise workload and take initiative
• Has demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail in work produced
• Act with discretion and has ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately
• Has a flexible and collaborative approach, working irregular hours as required by event work, including evenings and weekends
• Has excellent IT Skills, including a working knowledge of all MS Office and Google Workspace packages, especially databases and Excel
• Has professional experience of working in an arts organisation, and of working directly with creative people in a supportive role
• Has an interest in the art forms represented in Southbank Centre’s programme
• Is able to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the role that diversity and inclusion play in the activities of the Southbank Centre as a whole and in the work of this particular job.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

We reserve the right to close the advert early if enough applications are received.