Senior Producer
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,000 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | DD6 8PN |
| Remote working: | Fully remote |
| Company: | Fleur Darkin Presence Projects Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
3.5 days a week (.7) @ £35kpa, 6 weeks holiday pro rata, home based working. Hours can flex to increase at busy periods. Travel across Fife, Scotland and nationally as required.
Main Role
To support the strategic and practical planning and effective delivery of Presence Projects, including company management and compliance; to supervise the freelance Marketing and Social Media Manager, all contracted dancers, artists and designers; to liaise with venues, partners and collaborators; to project manage all touring and engagement projects.
Role Description
Working closely with the Artistic Director:
To recruit and manage freelance project teams
To prepare and manage artist, technical and collaborator contracts
To research and book appropriate accommodation and travel for touring and research trips
To be a key point of communication for artist enquiries and managing artist information, eg access riders
To manage UK Immigration and Home Office communications including organising artists’ visas as needed
To liaise with venues, residency partners and collaborating venues on all aspects of touring and engagement work
To develop links with relevant partners, including community and social care/activist organisations
To act as Safeguarding Lead for the company
To oversee the environmental policy and action plan
To set up and manage robust data management for audience, EDI and environmental statistics
To carry out general administrative tasks related to Presence Projects company work: including co-ordinating timely funder and compliance reporting, eg Creative Scotland, Companies House
To act as key point of communication between Presence Projects and external partners for all engagement projects
To manage day-to-day project budgets with the support of the Finance Manager
To manage the brief of the Marketing Manager, supporting the development of Presence Projects social media platforms and marketing/promotional material in liaison with freelance marketing support
Skills, experience and attributes we are looking for:
• Experience of producing ambitious performing arts projects at different scales, including off site, digital programming, large and small theatre stages and unusual spaces
• High level of communication skills and demonstrable experience of working successfully with artists, non-professional performers, partners, public, stakeholders and industry colleagues
• Proven skills in delivering a wide-ranging scale of projects on budget
• Knowledge and understanding of, and commitment to, live performance arts
• Attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure
• A proactive approach to solving problems in a prompt and independent manner
• Demonstrable experience of collaborative working and line management of small teams
• Self-motivated and effective in planning own time
• Commitment to the values of diversity and inclusivity
• Strong IT skills in office-based software, hardware and presentation
• Ability and willingness to work, as required, including evenings and weekend in touring/performance periods
About Presence Projects
Presence Projects , based in Fife, makes original productions in dance, theatre and film and applies the innovative social and choreographic thinking of Fleur Darkin. We create performances, community projects, solidarity shelters and educational initiatives for sectoral professional development in Scotland and internationally.
Presence Projects creates work for different contexts: hyper-local, regional, national and international touring with equal care and attention to detail and quality. Our making processes are sensitive to the body and place; we will create significant new works that respond positively to the climate emergency and social inequality.
Company Vision
To Produce culturally significant dance works - choreographic authority and an expertise in the artistic sector and art form; it adapts to very different forms and settings, engaging audience and participants in choreographic practice and sheltering new ideas and voices that is
• experienced by and reaches wide and diverse audiences; crosses sectoral lines through increased specialism in marketing and innovative partner working; responds to this era through digital and live presence, intergenerational and intersocial education programmes
• innovates the form to broaden choreographic thinking through citizen projects that work with specialists from other sectors and partners organisations who recruit and support participants beyond the arts sector.
• builds our network of making conditions & local dance readership in Fife (including Glenrothes, Falkland, Leven, Kirkcaldy and Newport) and with strategic long-term partnerships in Scotland (including Glasgow, Orkney, Inverclyde and rural touring networks.)
We will work to position Fife as a consistent base for innovation in professional and non-professional dance development, and to grow significant international practice and partnerships to support our mission of growing the conditions where our creative practice can thrive (attracting professionals to train and work; developing artists’ resources and opportunities; making interesting cross sector partnerships and harnessing multi-platform distribution.)
• has positive and significant effects on participants and audiences through collaborative exchange and growth through discovery/learning
• builds public recognition of the work and raises the profile of the company through marketing and repeated touring, to become part of the cultural national shared reference; positions dance as a voice in cultural leadership and ally to progressive social justice causes.
Main Role
To support the strategic and practical planning and effective delivery of Presence Projects, including company management and compliance; to supervise the freelance Marketing and Social Media Manager, all contracted dancers, artists and designers; to liaise with venues, partners and collaborators; to project manage all touring and engagement projects.
Role Description
Working closely with the Artistic Director:
To recruit and manage freelance project teams
To prepare and manage artist, technical and collaborator contracts
To research and book appropriate accommodation and travel for touring and research trips
To be a key point of communication for artist enquiries and managing artist information, eg access riders
To manage UK Immigration and Home Office communications including organising artists’ visas as needed
To liaise with venues, residency partners and collaborating venues on all aspects of touring and engagement work
To develop links with relevant partners, including community and social care/activist organisations
To act as Safeguarding Lead for the company
To oversee the environmental policy and action plan
To set up and manage robust data management for audience, EDI and environmental statistics
To carry out general administrative tasks related to Presence Projects company work: including co-ordinating timely funder and compliance reporting, eg Creative Scotland, Companies House
To act as key point of communication between Presence Projects and external partners for all engagement projects
To manage day-to-day project budgets with the support of the Finance Manager
To manage the brief of the Marketing Manager, supporting the development of Presence Projects social media platforms and marketing/promotional material in liaison with freelance marketing support
Skills, experience and attributes we are looking for:
• Experience of producing ambitious performing arts projects at different scales, including off site, digital programming, large and small theatre stages and unusual spaces
• High level of communication skills and demonstrable experience of working successfully with artists, non-professional performers, partners, public, stakeholders and industry colleagues
• Proven skills in delivering a wide-ranging scale of projects on budget
• Knowledge and understanding of, and commitment to, live performance arts
• Attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure
• A proactive approach to solving problems in a prompt and independent manner
• Demonstrable experience of collaborative working and line management of small teams
• Self-motivated and effective in planning own time
• Commitment to the values of diversity and inclusivity
• Strong IT skills in office-based software, hardware and presentation
• Ability and willingness to work, as required, including evenings and weekend in touring/performance periods
About Presence Projects
Presence Projects , based in Fife, makes original productions in dance, theatre and film and applies the innovative social and choreographic thinking of Fleur Darkin. We create performances, community projects, solidarity shelters and educational initiatives for sectoral professional development in Scotland and internationally.
Presence Projects creates work for different contexts: hyper-local, regional, national and international touring with equal care and attention to detail and quality. Our making processes are sensitive to the body and place; we will create significant new works that respond positively to the climate emergency and social inequality.
Company Vision
To Produce culturally significant dance works - choreographic authority and an expertise in the artistic sector and art form; it adapts to very different forms and settings, engaging audience and participants in choreographic practice and sheltering new ideas and voices that is
• experienced by and reaches wide and diverse audiences; crosses sectoral lines through increased specialism in marketing and innovative partner working; responds to this era through digital and live presence, intergenerational and intersocial education programmes
• innovates the form to broaden choreographic thinking through citizen projects that work with specialists from other sectors and partners organisations who recruit and support participants beyond the arts sector.
• builds our network of making conditions & local dance readership in Fife (including Glenrothes, Falkland, Leven, Kirkcaldy and Newport) and with strategic long-term partnerships in Scotland (including Glasgow, Orkney, Inverclyde and rural touring networks.)
We will work to position Fife as a consistent base for innovation in professional and non-professional dance development, and to grow significant international practice and partnerships to support our mission of growing the conditions where our creative practice can thrive (attracting professionals to train and work; developing artists’ resources and opportunities; making interesting cross sector partnerships and harnessing multi-platform distribution.)
• has positive and significant effects on participants and audiences through collaborative exchange and growth through discovery/learning
• builds public recognition of the work and raises the profile of the company through marketing and repeated touring, to become part of the cultural national shared reference; positions dance as a voice in cultural leadership and ally to progressive social justice causes.