The Senior Producer will work as part of the Nonsuch Studios team, with a leadership role of Nonsuch’s delivery of Ashfield Creates. The role is responsible to the Artistic Director & CEO, working closely alongside the Executive Director. The role will play a critical role in driving forward our delivery of Ashfield Creates, our largest community programme to date, leading on developing innovative and meaningful creative programming in line with funded planning outline, key areas of stakeholder management, project planning and delivery and management of the wider delivery team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To senior produce the Ashfield Creates programme and to continue development of an innovative, bold and authentic creative programme that centres bringing opportunities for creative engagement, experience and spectacle to Ashfield District and meets the key objectives of the Arts Council England funding for Ashfield Creates.
- Work closely at all stages of planning with a broad range of stakeholders, from Commissioning lead Ashfield District Council to community organisations, leaders and artists working across the region.
- Manage, inspire and support the Ashfield Creates team to deliver exceptional projects and programmes, managing the work of the Local Engagement Producers, supported by the Senior Management Team.
- To collaborate with the Senior Management Team in key strategic thinking across all of Nonsuch’s programmes - sharing learning, bringing vision and sector knowledge to support our long-term development and growth.
- Manage key Ashfield Creates programme budgets
- To work with the Executive Director to ensure that the Monitoring and Evaluation strategy for Ashfield Creates is maintained and reporting completed as needed.
KEY INFORMATION
Job Title: Senior Producer
Reports to: Artistic Director & CEO
Salary: £33,000 (£26,400 pro-rata)
Place of Work: Nonsuch Studios’ Offices in Nottingham City Centre & Kirkby in Ashfield and across engagement locations in Ashfield District and Nottinghamshire.
Working Hours: 4 days per week (30hours)
Contract Type: This is an employed role fixed term contract to the end of March 2027 with the view to extend subject to funding.
IMPORTANT APPLICATION DATES & TIME
Application Window: Weds 13th August - Mon 8th September at 12pm (noon)
Application Method: via Online Form & Document Upload
Candidates Notified: Thurs 11th September by 6pm
Scheduled Interview Date: w/c 22nd September in Kirkby in Ashfield.
HOW TO APPLY
To help make our recruitment process as simple as possible for both you and us, here’s all you need to know about applying for this role.
Application Questions
To apply for this role, you’ll need to download the info pack and click the APPLY NOW link on the last page which will take you to an online form for you to fill in your answers. So you don’t have to do everything online, all the questions are noted in the information pack with the character limits. These character counts are limits and not necessarily expectations. You may want to prepare your answers in a word document and then copy answers into the form to avoid losing any of your work, as unfortunately the form does not save as you go.
Application Deadline
The online form will automatically close at the deadline so it is important to hit Submit before the deadline as even applications in progress won’t be able to be submitted once the deadline passes.
We equally will not be able to accept applications that arrive via email after the deadline has passed either.
Equality & Diversity Questions
At the end of the form there is a voluntary option to fill in some Equality and Diversity Questions. It’s important to stress that these answers are kept separately from your application and submitted separately and anonymously via a separate form. We collect this data to monitor the breadth of diversity throughout our recruitment processes to help us ensure our staff represent the communities we work with and so really appreciate the submissions we receive on this.
All panellists view every application ‘blind’ at the shortlisting phase, which means any identifiable information is removed from your application. We will redact any identifiable information from your CV, please help us by not including pictures of yourself in your CV.
Access Support
If, for accessibility reasons, you are not able to apply via our online form, please send your responses to the questions along with a copy of your CV via email to jobs@nonsuchstudios.co.uk with APPLICATION FOR *JOB TITLE* in the subject line. If you would like to apply via any other format please contact us to discuss your needs so we can come to a suitable, accessible arrangement.
Should you require any access support at the interview, please let us know and we will endeavour to support an environment that you feel comfortable with.
