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They should have a combination of business acumen, artistic experience and imagination, commercial insight, and an entrepreneurial approach to new opportunities.

The CEO/Artistic Director will rebuild our momentum, re-energise our vision, and continue to support, develop, and deliver work that is exciting, creative, and thought provoking. We need to work out new methods of delivery that are supported by, and meet the needs of, both our artists and audiences. We need to consider what support our artists will need to develop their skills and expertise in a world where digital and the virtual are likely to play an increasingly important role. We need a CEO and artistic leader to manage our organisation and business plan, create productions, events, festivals that deliver this vision. How this is realised will be dependent on their approach and interests.

About Us

DaDa is an award winning and pioneering disability arts organisation based in Liverpool with international reach and impact. Founded in 1984, we were one of the first disability-led arts organisations in the UK and an integral part of the campaign for greater equality and access for disabled artists across the arts sector. Operations and Finance Manager Application Pack 2 As an organisation we are known widely for DaDaFest, our biennial cross-arts festival which has nurtured and supported many renowned disabled artists from the UK and beyond since its first iteration in 2001. Now, the organisation wants to continue our pioneering work by reimagining trusted formats, refocusing on our social justice mission, continuing to break down barriers and campaign for change and explore new ways to enable disabled artists to create challenging, entertaining and powerful work.

• Personal or direct experience of Disability, ideally a Disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent person.
• Overseeing or creating high-quality artistic programmes ideally within disability arts.
• Senior management or leadership in a relevant creative sector, preferably within an arts programming or Disability arts context.
• Financial planning, budget setting and management.
• Charitable governance, ideally working for a trustee board.
• Forming creative and effective partnerships, ideally with funders, artists, and other arts organisations.
  Management of positive, high-performing teams.
• Track record of compelling, successful funding bids.
• Current knowledge of Disability culture, access and Disability arts
• Understanding of structural oppression and intersectionality, including in relation to global majority identities
• Demonstrable commitment to EDI, widening access to the arts and to developing audiences, participants and artists
• Ability to persuasively articulate a vision to a wide range of audiences such as staff, artists, audiences, donors, the media.
• Strong communication, listening, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Understanding of safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection.
• Use of Office 365 and remote/hybrid working solutions