• Role: Senior Creative Producer on a fixed term basis – 1 FTE (5 days/week preferred. Part-time can be considered for the successful candidate if they prefer at 3 days (0.6 FTE) or 4 days (0.8 FTE) per week.
• Reporting to: CEO
• Remuneration: $90,000 pro rata + super
• Type: Not-for-Profit & Community Arts Organisation
• Location: Fairfield City HQ, NSW. We enjoy hybrid working arrangements. The team works from the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and from home on other days.

Terms and Conditions:

• The successful candidate will be appointed for one (1) year on a fixed term basis with a renewal option and extension dependent on funding. A three-month probation period applies.
• The successful candidate will be provided with a laptop for the duration of their fixed-term employment. It is expected that they will use their personal mobile for any phone calls when working from home.
• The successful candidate will undertake a working with children check at their own expense and present this to CuriousWorks at the signing of their contract.

About Curious Works

CuriousWorks exists at the intersection of contemporary multi-arts practice and community arts and cultural development. We work across art forms and disciplines, focusing on screen works, digital media, and emerging art forms.

We nurture the ideas and the potential of art makers and future cultural leaders. We believe in ethical and self-determined storytelling, and the integrity of process; engaging deeply and meaningfully with artists, audiences, communities, and collaborators to produce and present new Australian work and cultural experiences that speak to the hyper-local of our home grounds in South West Sydney, and resonate far beyond.

We do this through commissioning new local work, co-creating cultural experiences with communities and artists, providing arts education programs, generating leadership and skills development opportunities, creating employment pathways, partnering in research and cultural development initiatives, and advocating alongside our peers for systemic change.

CuriousWorks is a registered social enterprise and certified member of both Social Traders and SECNA (Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT). Through our social enterprise model, we collaborate with clients and communities to deliver professional multimedia and community engagement services at competitive rates, while creating skills development and paid work opportunities for young people and early-career artists.

Our stomping grounds are the suburbs of South-West Sydney and we’re proud of our longstanding presence and strong relationships in the region – with our peers, with local artists at every stage in their creative journey, and with youth and community service providers, government agencies, schools, and the broader community through years of program and project co-design, delivery, and evaluation.

Artist-led and dedicated to embedded long-term community engagement, our strengths emanate from a core staff and a network of creatives with deep connections to the localities we operate within and the communities we serve.

The Role

The Senior Creative Producer is a key member of the CuriousWorks team. Reporting to the CEO, the role is responsible for working collaboratively with the team to co-design and deliver the CuriousWorks artistic program.

Key Responsibilities

Producing and Creative Direction

• Working with the CEO and Creative Producers to co-design and deliver the annual CuriousWorks artistic program of activities.
• Designing and delivering large-scale projects/programs as the project lead/Senior Creative Producer.
• Supporting and mentoring the Creative Producers to design and deliver the projects they lead on.
• Initiating and stewarding a new artistic/cultural reference group of local creatives to inform and evaluate CuriousWorks’s artistic programs.
• Supporting the CEO and at times taking the lead on the company’s grant-seeking, grant-writing, reporting and evaluation activities, as well as philanthropic and business development activities as they relate to artistic programs and projects.
• Supporting the CEO in reporting on artistic activities to the CuriousWorks Management Committee.

Company Operations and Admin

• Attend fortnightly staff meetings and where possible key activities and events.
• Perform company data, CRM and file management, emails and other operational tasks as required.
• Comply with the Association’s code of conduct, policies and procedures, governance, risk management and administrative systems.

Company Culture, Wellbeing + Professional Development

• Proactively nurture a positive work culture through clear, professional, responsive, and timely communication with teammates, and by working collaboratively across the team.
• Attend and participate in company-wide wellbeing initiatives.
• Proactively engage in self-directed professional learning opportunities.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications and/or significant industry experience (5+ years) in arts/cultural projects/program producing, including projects of scale with budgets of $150k and above.
• Demonstrated track record of developing and delivering successful arts/cultural projects/programs that are socially engaged, responsive to community needs and/or artist-led.
• Awareness of and experience in community arts and cultural development practice, including experience in working with marginalised and minoritised people and communities to co-create positive experiences and outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience effectively managing project budgets, timelines, deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with a variety of stakeholders (including artists, participants, arts worker peers, partner organisations and industry bodies).
• Solid networks and experience working in the Western Sydney arts landscape.
• Experience working within a team and in leading small teams, in particular as a mentor.
• Experience working with film, screen, digital and media production.
• Passion for new technologies, people, story, and diversity in all forms.
• High-level verbal and written communication skills.

Interviews will be conducted in early December 2024.

A contract will be issued to the successful candidate in mid-December. The fixed term contract of employment will commence from January 13, 2025 and will be for a one (1) year period. An earlier or later start date can be negotiated with the successful candidate if needed.

Write to CuriousWorks CEO, Kiriaki Zakinthinos with any questions or to discuss any access requirements or reasonable adjustments at [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Creative Producer enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.