Job Details

In this role, you will work closely with the Head of Public Programming to curate and deliver a diverse mix of paid and free events, from South Asian Sounds, Meltdown and London Literature Festival, amongst others. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative artists and organisations, ensuring that all events reflect the vibrant diversity of London’s communities, including those who are often excluded from the arts.

The Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions, occupying an 11-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames.

Its impact and reach are significant and it is respected internationally as a convener of great artists and diverse audiences and for being entrepreneurial and innovative in response to a volatile and changing financial landscape. The Southbank Centre is a charity that is determined to demonstrate its ambition to remain innovative, disruptive and experimental in what it does and to be highly relevant to the artists it wants to work with and to the audiences it wants to attract.

The Southbank Centre believes that a commitment to diversity and inclusion helps it be a more relevant and effective organisation.

Key skills that will help you in this role include:

• Has experience of creating ideas for, producing and working on public events and projects that respond to artistic themes and ideas in an arts organisation, with demonstrable experience of delivering music events and projects.
• Has demonstrable organisational and administrative skills, with a proven track record of creating and producing complex projects in budget and to a deadline.
• Has experience and knowledge of working with colleagues to implement audience development initiatives in order to diversify audiences and remove barriers to cultural participation.
• Is a collaborative team worker and has the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with a wide range of partners, using tact and diplomacy, with experience of adapting communication style to suit different partners, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Has a good understanding and awareness of the key policy and legislative requirements related to live events including health and safety, access and safeguarding.