Artistic Director, Disability Arts Online

As DAO celebrates over two decades of championing disability arts, we're looking for a disabled creative leader who's excited to play a pivotal part in shaping the next chapter of our story.

This is a rare opportunity to guide the artistic direction of a nationally respected, disabled-led organisation - one that continually pushes for better access, richer representation and a bold, caring future for disabled creatives. If you thrive on big ideas, collaborative working and nurturing creative communities, we'd be delighted to hear from you.

This pivotal role involves working closely with the Chief Executive to create and implement a bold artistic and creative strategy. You will use your lived experience as a disabled person to ensure our work is authentic, ambitious, and aligned with our mission.

This role is only open to disabled applicants due to the experience necessary to carry out the work authentically, representing the DAO community from a position of personal lived experience. The successful candidate will have proven experience in artistic direction, strategy development, and talent development within the arts sector.

We acknowledge that institutional racism, discrimination and inequality exist in our sector and understand that disability is an intersectional experience. As such, we are strongly committed to ensuring that people from global majority backgrounds and all protected characteristics are part of our organisation, across our staff and board, as well as the freelancers we work with.

The role is designed to be part-time (21 hours per week) to offer better access and flexibility for candidates. If you wish to maintain a creative practice alongside this job, we will do everything we can to accommodate this through Time Off in Lieu, flexible working and in our organisational planning.