Head of Programming

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Woolwich Works Full time £60,000 - £80,000 per year

About this job

The Head of Programming leads the public programme for Woolwich Works, taking responsibility for the Trust's public performances, artistic rentals, and community engagement activities. Working closely with the Director, they will curate and evolve our year-round programme of performance and live events, embracing music and comedy, food and markets, craft and visual arts, performances for children and families, festivals, cultural events, workshops and more. They will collaborate with the Resident Artistic Companies to develop their presence in our building and engagement with the wider community.

We are open to programming new activities that drive audiences to our spaces and build Woolwich Works as an essential home of live events. Working across our spaces - varying in capacity from 60 to 1800, programming directly and working collaboratively to deliver activity across the site and in the wider area each year, we are taking a step forward in the volume and ambition of our public facing work as we move towards our 5th birthday and onwards.

We want to develop a range of events that excite and draw audiences to Woolwich - the Head of Programming will work closely with the Marketing team on audience development, driving footfall and engagement with the venue, its activities and performances, and with Development on gaining sponsorship and philanthropic support for the programme.

Leading a team of 4, they will work collaboratively with our production and operations teams to ensure that artists, promoters and audiences have an outstanding experience with us, leaving them wanting to return and work with us again.

Is this job for you?

We're looking for someone with a successful track record as a commercial programmer, assembling and managing high quality performance and engagement activities that achieve or exceed target attendances and generate a profit.

You'll be passionate about building a broad and exciting programme of live performance and events, as well as brokering deals. You'll need to be comfortable and practiced with contract negotiations and budgeting, used to doing deals and building hire packages to entice promoters, producers and artists to work with us. Ideally, you'll also have experience of devising programmes that engage a broad audience, and the ability to work collaboratively to deliver high quality creative experiences and opportunities is essential.

You will be a supportive line manager to a high performing and busy team, be able to articulate your thinking clearly and champion knowledge sharing and skills development, as well as ensuring that they have the right systems and structures in place to do their jobs well.

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