General Manager, Talking Birds

This role would suit a professional administrator/manager who is excited by the transformative power of the arts and its capacity to effect positive change. We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of a team while being independently motivated to play their part in delivering an ambitious and wide-ranging programme of work.

Though not an artistic role, the General Manager is a big part of a small team and we ask everyone to draw on their knowledge, skills, lived experience and creative ideas in working collectively to shape the company's vision and deliver its programme - encompassed by the belief that anyone can have 'the best idea in the room'.

Hours: 0.8FTE (30 hrs based on 37.5 hrs per week)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £32,760 pro rata (£26,208 for 0.8 FTE)

Talking Birds is a theatre company based in Coventry since 1992, known for its thoughtful, playful, resonant, mischievous and transformative meditations on people and place. Our values (Kindness, Brilliance, Transformation, Curiosity, Wellbeing, Collaboration) combined with our 'https://tbcov.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/our-six-big-ideas/ - six big ideas' (about artist process & support; access & participation; climate conscience; agency, equity & diversity; nurture & resilience) weave through our work and guide our choices and interactions.

We put accessibility at the heart of our work and are pioneering affordable, mobile captioning with The Difference Engine. Work at our purpose-built shared creation space, The Nest, models an active commitment to climate justice and equitable, regenerative relationships (with people and planet). Here we explore and share Regenerative Creative Practice with a diverse, climate-conscious community of artists (we call them the Flock) engaged through our Nest Residencies, support network (F13) and Third Fridays programme. It is also home base for Talking Birds' popular Outdoor Arts/touring productions, including the iconic big metal Whale.