Creative Learning Producer -maternity cover
| Posting date: | 24 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 April 2026 |
| Location: | SR1 3EX |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | ATG Entertainment |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 307598JCP |
Summary
Creative Learning Producer (Maternity Cover)
With circa 2,000 seats, Sunderland Empire is the largest seated theatre between Manchester and Edinburgh. A grade II listed building from the Edwardian era, with an exquisite Rococo interior, it hosts an exciting and high-profile programme, from the latest West End musicals and the most spectacular Disney shows, to community performances, rooted in the city and serving the north of England.
The Creative Learning department engages local adults, children, and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds through our work in schools, our regular weekly programme of classes and our community projects. You will also benefit from the support of Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust who champion our work.
The Creative Learning Producer (Maternity Cover) role:
This is a position for a motivated and dynamic arts professional to produce a Creative Learning programme in the Sunderland Empire Creative Learning department. You will manage and deliver creative learning programmes for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. You’ll join a dedicated and dynamic venue team and work with them and, with national colleagues, to develop relationships with show producers, local organisations, and partners.
You are a passionate, multi-faceted and talented individual, who is highly motivated and committed to inclusive arts practice. Your programmes are locally driven, addressing the needs, challenges, and opportunities of our immediate local area, and the live entertainment industry as a whole. You are committed to continued professional development and excited by the opportunity of sharing expertise by collaborating across the nationwide Creative Learning team.
Please see an insight into the work of Creative Learning at ATG, through the 2024 Creative Learning Annual Review. We also have a number of project films available which give a further flavour of our work, available if requested.
Key responsibilities
Manage and deliver all aspects of a creative learning programme for ATG Entertainment Sunderland Empire, and in response to the national Creative Learning strategy.
Build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders across the wider arts community including local authorities, education, cultural organisations, and funders; as well as colleagues, partners, and key producers bringing shows to the venue.
Effectively manage agreed budgets to ensure income and expenditure targets are met.
Effectively monitor and evaluate activity, and work with colleagues to communicate Creative Learning opportunities and successes to the broadest audiences.
Recruit, engage and support Sunderland Empire Creative Learning staff, freelance practitioners, casual staff, and suppliers.
Fulfil any other task as reasonably required
Your experience, skills, and qualities
We welcome transferable skills from other industries and backgrounds. If you can demonstrate many of the essential skills, qualities and experience we encourage you to apply. We can provide training where necessary.
Essential
Experience of working in an arts or educational role producing and delivering high quality learning and engagement projects for diverse range of groups.
Experience of project management, including excellent finance management, generating earned income, and contributing to fundraising campaigns &/or sponsorship initiatives.
Experience of managing people and working in partnership.
Experience in recruiting and supporting arts workers, freelance artists, and practitioners.
Understanding of marketing and communications and their role in Creative Learning.
Understanding of safeguarding duties and best practises.
Resourceful and adaptable with the ability to manage multiple projects, relationships & partnerships.
Highly organised, able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
Computer literate including Office 365.
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
Desirable
Experience as a skilled arts practitioner.
Knowledge of the local Creative Learning landscape and the broader cultural, and education sectors.
Knowledge of Privacy in the contexts of Creative Learning.
Good knowledge of multi-arts genres, disciplines, and approaches.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.
About Us – Our values
ATG Entertainment’s values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.
THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)
Our culture
You’ll help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.
We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.
With circa 2,000 seats, Sunderland Empire is the largest seated theatre between Manchester and Edinburgh. A grade II listed building from the Edwardian era, with an exquisite Rococo interior, it hosts an exciting and high-profile programme, from the latest West End musicals and the most spectacular Disney shows, to community performances, rooted in the city and serving the north of England.
The Creative Learning department engages local adults, children, and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds through our work in schools, our regular weekly programme of classes and our community projects. You will also benefit from the support of Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust who champion our work.
The Creative Learning Producer (Maternity Cover) role:
This is a position for a motivated and dynamic arts professional to produce a Creative Learning programme in the Sunderland Empire Creative Learning department. You will manage and deliver creative learning programmes for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. You’ll join a dedicated and dynamic venue team and work with them and, with national colleagues, to develop relationships with show producers, local organisations, and partners.
You are a passionate, multi-faceted and talented individual, who is highly motivated and committed to inclusive arts practice. Your programmes are locally driven, addressing the needs, challenges, and opportunities of our immediate local area, and the live entertainment industry as a whole. You are committed to continued professional development and excited by the opportunity of sharing expertise by collaborating across the nationwide Creative Learning team.
Please see an insight into the work of Creative Learning at ATG, through the 2024 Creative Learning Annual Review. We also have a number of project films available which give a further flavour of our work, available if requested.
Key responsibilities
Manage and deliver all aspects of a creative learning programme for ATG Entertainment Sunderland Empire, and in response to the national Creative Learning strategy.
Build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders across the wider arts community including local authorities, education, cultural organisations, and funders; as well as colleagues, partners, and key producers bringing shows to the venue.
Effectively manage agreed budgets to ensure income and expenditure targets are met.
Effectively monitor and evaluate activity, and work with colleagues to communicate Creative Learning opportunities and successes to the broadest audiences.
Recruit, engage and support Sunderland Empire Creative Learning staff, freelance practitioners, casual staff, and suppliers.
Fulfil any other task as reasonably required
Your experience, skills, and qualities
We welcome transferable skills from other industries and backgrounds. If you can demonstrate many of the essential skills, qualities and experience we encourage you to apply. We can provide training where necessary.
Essential
Experience of working in an arts or educational role producing and delivering high quality learning and engagement projects for diverse range of groups.
Experience of project management, including excellent finance management, generating earned income, and contributing to fundraising campaigns &/or sponsorship initiatives.
Experience of managing people and working in partnership.
Experience in recruiting and supporting arts workers, freelance artists, and practitioners.
Understanding of marketing and communications and their role in Creative Learning.
Understanding of safeguarding duties and best practises.
Resourceful and adaptable with the ability to manage multiple projects, relationships & partnerships.
Highly organised, able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
Computer literate including Office 365.
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
Desirable
Experience as a skilled arts practitioner.
Knowledge of the local Creative Learning landscape and the broader cultural, and education sectors.
Knowledge of Privacy in the contexts of Creative Learning.
Good knowledge of multi-arts genres, disciplines, and approaches.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.
About Us – Our values
ATG Entertainment’s values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.
THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)
Our culture
You’ll help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.
We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.