Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
Job Type: Permanent – Full Time
Report to: Chair of the Board/Board of Directors and Trustees
Hours: Full Time including some weekend and evening work
Salary: between £40, 000 and £43,000 per annum
After 12 years Julian Caddy is moving on and Brighton Fringe is looking for his successor.
We need a dynamic and hands-on leader who will work with the Board, small staff team and our partners to secure our future and to develop the largest Fringe festival in England. You will enhance our work developing participants with the Fringe Academy throughout the year and work to increase our ability to support and develop excellence with the Fringe Bursary scheme. You will develop our relationships with current sponsors and entice additional sponsors. You will develop and grow our friends and patrons scheme. The CEO must ensure that every opportunity is taken to create a sustainable Fringe by identifying and seizing every commercial opportunity.
The CEO leads Brighton Fringe and Brighton Fringe Operations which is a separate company operating our festival venues comprising Brighton Fringe presents Caravanserai. Additionally, the CEO leads our Jubilee Square activation/event space which administers an all-year-round outside event space and performance area adjacent to Jubilee Library in Brighton.
For full job description and person specification please click here
Please complete our equal opportunities form.
How to Apply
Applications should be made via email addressed to chair@brightonfringe.org with your CV and covering letter demonstrating with examples how you meet the criteria of the job description and person specifications.
Applications must be received by 5pm on June 30th 2023.
Initial interviews will be conducted in mid-July and final interviews by the end of July.
Arrangements for strong applicants who are involved with other festivals in that period can be made.
Contact name: Duncan Lustig-Prean
Contact email: chair@brightonfringe.org
Brighton Fringe Operations Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. We want to ensure that we always recruit, nurture and promote a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the communities we serve. This gives us great opportunities to access the broadest range of ideas and to serve our diverse communities properly and effectively.
