Person Specification
We present work for everyone and we welcome applications from everyone. By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
Essential skills and experience required:
- Recognised for outstanding artistic vision and an ability to articulate this clearly and compellingly.
- Broad experience of creative leadership, preferably across multi-disciplinary art forms.
- Evidence of developing and successfully delivering bold, innovative, high-profile ideas.
- Commercial and financial acumen and demonstrable experience of managing complex budgets and partnership development.
- Ability to deliver high volumes of activity, often within tight timeframes.
- Evidence of strategic planning within a complex organisation.
- Excellent communication skills, media experience and evidence of operating in a public-facing role.
- Demonstrable influencing and negotiating skills.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a passion for, and affinity with, Southbank Centre’s brand, values and ambition.
- Has a clear vision for Southbank Centre’s place on the national and international cultural stage, in a post-pandemic world.
- Has demonstrable experience of managing large venues or creative spaces and of finding the right ideas to attract sizeable audiences for live events.
- Understands the need for balance between artistic and commercial events.
- Has experience in partnership building skills.
- Has experience of managing large-scale creative learning projects and a clear vision for the role creative learning can play alongside an artistic programme.
- Values the public’s role in informing programmes that reflect the demographics of our communities, locally and nationally.
- Has experience of working with a Board of Trustees as well as a wide range of stakeholders.
- Can inspire, attract, manage and retain creative talent.
- Has demonstrable experience of large-scale collaboration.
- Has a good working knowledge of digital media and can work comfortably in a hybrid digital and live event world.