Theatre & Community Hires Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Business Development team at the Albany, a performing arts centre that exists to inspire, develop and support creativity in South East London. With year-round activities and events including award-winning programmes for young creatives and adults over 60, music, theatre, spoken word and family performance, the Albany is led by the talent and imagination of its local community.

Working within a small but dynamic team, the Theatre & Community Hires Manager is responsible for managing the Hires team, which offers a variety of hireable services and spaces across three sites.

We work with a wide variety of hirers and spaces across three sites, and all the money we earn from venue hire is reinvested back in our programme and buildings. For many people, the Hires team is their first point of contact with the Albany.

In the role, you will lead on coordinating the booking of the majority of larger theatre hire events, whilst working closely with the wider team to facilitate uptake of room bookings and associated earned income services. Types of hire events could include:

Youth recitals and theatre performances
Festival-style building take-overs
Conferences or lectures
Music concerts or gigs
and many more!

Key skills:

Essential criteria

Please demonstrate your experience with the essential criteria in your personal
statement. We welcome applicants who can demonstrate experience of the following in a wide variety of ways, including with non-traditional work experience.

-Experience managing budgets, with a track record of achieving or exceeding pre agreed targets (financial or otherwise).

-Ability to manage a workload with competing demands in a fast-paced
environment, including high-volume turnover as well as longer term projects and
relationships.

-Enthusiasm for working with a wide variety of people and organisations,
communicating effectively and professionally in writing and in person, with the
ability to adjust how you communicate to best suit each individual’s needs
Excellent administrative skills and attention to detail, with the ability to organise
and prioritise a large amount of event-based information in a clear and concise
way.

-Familiarity with using management software or templates to collect and collate
information. This could include event or project management software, or bespoke templates created with excel or similar programme.

-Strong interpersonal and management skills, with an understanding of how to
work proactively and motivate a team.

-An interest in working in a cultural and community setting, and enthusiasm for the artistic and charitable mission of the Albany.

Desirable

-Lived experience of the communities we serve, with a specific understanding of
the challenges facing Black, Asian and ethnically diverse communities