Role: Fundraising | Contract: Freelance | Part-time
Location: Remote or hybrid to suit postholder (with easy travel to London and Colchester)
£30,000 project fee for first year
Deadline for applications: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 (09:30)
Wild Arts are seeking a development lead to help this young company to delight and educate ever larger and more diverse audiences across the UK.
Who we are
Wild Arts is an environmental music and arts charity based in South East England, producing two festivals in Essex, a summer UK tour (with our first European performances in 2024), and a year-round programme including recording and concert projects. The organisation grew out of the charity which has been running the Roman River Festival for 24 years.
Our vision is that great music and opera should be accessible to everyone. We re-invent opera in fresh and vibrant productions with quality at their core; work with schools and young artists to foster future talent; and aim to demonstrate how the performing arts can be environmentally sustainable. In 2023 the company performed to over 6,000 people across 37 venues and 42 performances.
About the role
Wild Arts relies on a range of support to produce the performances and educational activities. The Development Manager will be responsible for an initial target of £185k towards the 2025 programme of work in the context of an overall turnover of £535k. The charity forecasts organic growth over the next few years, with a fundraising target of £250k within 3 years.
We are seeking an experienced fundraiser to join a small and hard-working core team to shape the future of this exciting young arts organisation. The Development Manager will need to build on our initial work in this area (including an Arts Council England Project Grant in 2024) to gain support from a range of sources including trusts and foundations, individual and corporate sponsors (including legacy giving), and statutory funding. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the entire grants, sponsorship, and philanthropy cycle, from identifying prospects and developing relationships, to writing compelling applications and reports. This is a new role and a key moment in the development of this relatively new organisation.
In particular, we are looking for someone who:
Overview:
Job Title: Development Manager
Salary: £30,000 starting
Hours: Flexitime working equivalent to three days per week. This project fee would roughly equate to an annual salary of £50,000
Contract: Freelance
Closing date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 (09:30)
Location: Remote, office or hybrid to suit postholder (with easy travel to London and Colchester)
For further information about the role, please see the full outline below.
To apply, please send a CV and short cover letter to Max Parfitt:
info@wildarts.org.uk | 07530 934198
Deadline for applications: 1 Aug 2024 (09:30)
Wild Arts is a growing opera and music charity. Its goal: to bring sustainable, world-class music to everyone, Wild Arts reinvents opera in fresh and vibrant productions with quality at their core. It stages an opera tour and opera evenings in the summer, the Roman River Festival in the autumn, the Messiah at Christmas and a range of other concerts during the year. It also works with schools and young artists. In 2023 it performed to more than 6,000 people across 37 venues and 42 performances.
We are looking for a volunteer Treasurer, someone with accounting experience, who could help oversee the charity’s finances, working with the Trustees, Lead Producer and Bookkeeper. The charity is keen to maintain and improve our financial controls as we grow.
The role is to:
Applicants please get in touch with Clare Dobie, Trustee, via info@wildarts.org.uk. Deadline end July.
Role: Intern | Contract: Fixed | Part-time / Flexible
Location: Remote or hybrid to suit postholder
£2,200 project fee for 18 weeks (10 hours per week)
Deadline for applications: Monday 29 Apr 2024 (09:30)
Wild Arts are seeking an intern to act as the company's primary contact with our audience prior to and following each performance across our summer and autumn seasons (Monday 27 May to Friday 1 October), and to shadow our production team.
Who we are
Wild Arts is an environmental music and arts charity based in South East England, producing two festivals in Essex, a summer UK tour (with our first European performances in 2024), and a year-round programme including recording and concert projects.
Our vision is that great music and opera should be accessible to everyone. We re-invent opera in fresh and vibrant productions with quality at their core; work with schools and young artists, and offer apprenticeships to foster future talent; and aim to demonstrate how the performing arts can be environmentally sustainable. In 2023 the company performed to over 6,000 people across 37 venues and 42 performances.
About the role
Wild Arts is built around a small 3-person core team - Orlando (Artistic Director), Aki (Lead Producer), and Max (Producer). The intern's primary role would be digital audience management (responding to ticketing and audience email enquiries). Any remaining time would then be used to shadow Aki and to work with our new Development Manager, with Max as pastoral point of contact.
The role would be flexible, with 10 hours per week over 5 working days. These hours can be anytime of day, but must include a check-in on every performance day (with on average two shows per week). Where 12-hour/7-day weeks would be required around our headline summer and autumn festivals (17-23 June and 24-29 September), equivalent time will be given off in the following week.
While they may work from anywhere, the successful applicant would be welcome to join the team in Elephant and Castle, London, across the rehearsals of The Magic Flute (27 May to 7 June), and at Layer Marney Tower in Essex for the Essex Summer Opera Festival (17-23 June; accommodation, food, and travel expense provided, with free access to all performances).
Wild Arts would also love to discuss any further (unpaid) work-experience opportunities across these production weeks that may interest the candidate.
In particular, we are looking for someone who:
Overview:
Job Title: Office Intern / Audience Liaison
Salary: £2,200
Hours: Flexitime amounting to 10 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term
Closing date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 (09:30)
Location: Remote / hybrid to suit postholder
For further information about the role, please see the full outline below.
To apply, please send a short, written statement of interest to Max Parfitt:
info@wildarts.org.uk | 07530 934198
Wild Arts, charity no. 1158366
South Green Farmhouse, Fingringhoe, Colchester, CO5 7DP, United Kingdom
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