Description
Our mission is to fight for an equitable, inclusive and diverse music industry. We provide tailored career development for individuals through our events, label, mentoring, podcast & magazine and workshops.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Programmes and Events Manager to join our team. The post-holder will oversee all our external-facing projects, including our Record Label, Events, Conferences and Magazine.
We're looking for someone with experience in all aspects of programme delivery including managing budgets, project planning and evaluation, as well as managing people.
You'll be working closely with the CEO, COO, Senior Partnerships and Development Manager and other senior managers to set and achieve the yearly organisational strategy. You'll also be working closely with project teams to design and deliver a series of change programmes for marginalised people in the music industry and other creative fields.
- A strong understanding of the barriers that marginalised communities, and particularly the LGBTQ+ community, may have to access creative industries
- Strong organisational and admin skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple deadlines and projects
- Experience in managing people and developing teams
- Proven track record in measuring impact and evaluating projects and/or programmes
- Experience in maintaining and growing delivery partnerships
- Developing business plans and budgets, as well as supporting the development of an organisational strategy
- Project management experience in tracking income and expenditure and measuring impact
- Great communication skills, both digitally and interpersonally
- A proactive team player, with the ability to work cross-organisationally
- Working alongside the senior management team (SMT) to set the purpose and strategic direction of the organisation's programming and events, whilst ensuring marginalised communities are at the heart of our decision-making
- Work with other senior managers to create strategic goals, KPIs and evaluation methods for our external work including Record Label, Events, Conferences and Magazine
- Manage existing and create and nurture new key partnerships for programme and project delivery
- Tracking feedback and evaluating our work and its impact; using this data to constantly improve and adapt our output with project teams
- Implementing and overseeing budgets and financial reporting across projects, working closely with project leads and the finance team.
- Day to day line management of project teams, including the label, events, conferences and magazine, working on their career development with regular team meetings, 1:1s and appraisals
- Attend regular team and leadership team meetings