FREELANCE OPPORTUNITY
Brighton Festival 2016

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Freelance Production Manager to manage our external venue programme for the landmark 50th festival.

This role is vital to the planning and execution of the Brighton Festival. We are looking for someone who can manage logistic planning for a variety of cross art events, Classical and Contemporary Music, Theatre, Dance and Spoken Word in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues across Brighton and Hove.

You will be responsible for the costing, monitoring and managing all budgets, scheduling all aspects of events, acquisition of all technical requirements, overseeing get-ins and outs, all Health and Safety requirements, hiring temporary staff, liaising with artists/venue staff and ensuring a meticulous level of detail in all your work.

We require excellent communication skills as you will be working with a wide range of artists and external contacts as well as liaising with internal departments at Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival.

You must have financial acumen, excellent technical ability and Health and Safety knowledge, as well as wide ranging experience of a variety of genres.

First hand knowledge of Brighton’s resources and venues, both traditional and less typical, is desirable.

Ideally the contract will begin in October 2015.

Closing date for applications: 21 September 2015
Interviews will be held: week commencing 28 September 2015

Our preferred format for receiving applications is in Microsoft Word. For Equal Opportunities reasons, CV’s will not be accepted. Only completed application forms will be considered for this vacancy. Please go to the brighton dome website to download an application form.

Brighton Dome and Festival Ltd is a registered charity and pursues a policy of equal opportunities. Brighton Dome & Festival values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds and all parts of the community, particularly people from ethnic minorities who are currently under-represented. All applications are judged on merit.