General Manager

General Manager

Creative Crawley’s General Manager will play a key role within the organisation ensuring that the September 2024 – August 2025 programme including Creative Playground and The Creative Village is delivered to a high standard.

Salary:                      £33,000 per annum

Contract:                  Full time. PAYE, fixed term September 2024 to August 2025 (with intention to extend to 2026)

Deadline to apply:   9am on Friday 26 July

Further details can be found in the Job Pack: https://creativecrawley.com/get_involved/general-manager/

For an informal conversation about the role please contact sophie@creativeplaygroundcrawley.com

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by Tuesday 30 July and invited for interview on either Wednesday 31 July, Thursday 1 August or Mon 5 August in Crawley or via zoom

The General Manager provides the glue which holds together a gloriously eclectic mixture of people, projects and priorities. The General Manager role is a crucial new post for Creative Crawley to aid the smooth administrative running of the organisation and projects it manages.

The post holder will manage our day-to-day operations, focussing on company administration, HR function, finance, evaluation and reporting. We are seeking someone who is highly organised, able to juggle multiple tasks and who loves  administration, figures, data and supporting others.

This is not an entry-level job, Creative Crawley is about to go through another burst of growth; we want someone who has the capacity to hit the ground running and can anchor us through our next phase.

FAQs

Q: What kind of jobs might the successful candidate have done before?

A: They might have been an Administrator or General Manager in a publicly funded arts or community organisation, they might have been a finance or fundraising specialist in an arts or community organisation. Or they might have worked as an event organiser or administrator in another type of business.

Q: What are the key skills you are looking for? 

A: Someone who is super-organised with an excellent understanding of managing finances and fundraising. Someone who loves systems and understands how to implement them in a small team. Someone who loves people and can communicate well with different sorts of folk.

Q: What’s it like to work with Creative Crawley? 

A: It’s a small team. It’s energetic, fun and encourages people to step out of their comfort zone and learn more. In a staff away day earlier this year, some of the team described the personality of the company with these words: Engaging, Aspirational, Ambitious, Motivated , Sociable, Unexpected, Exciting, Intriguing, Bold, Unafraid and Kind.

Person Specification

The person specification is provided to help you in writing your application and gives the minimum experience, skills, abilities and qualities required by Creative Crawley for this position.

Essential Skills

● Experience of working at a manager level in the creative industries for a minimum of 3 years.

● Experience of HR, contracting and staff recruitment.

● Experience and proof of working on in depth evaluation processes for arts projects.

● Excellent and effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

● Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage and prioritise tasks in situations of conflicting demands.

● Strong budget and financial management skills and experience.

● Demonstrable experience of fundraising.

● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

● Excellent IT skills including using GoogleDrive and Microsoft Office.

● Resilient and flexible when dealing with change.

● A commitment to championing the creative case for diversity at every level of the organisation and the proven ability to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

● A love of the arts and the process of co-creating work with residents.

● A commitment to the mission of Creative Crawley.

Desirable Skills

● Experience of working within a place based organisation.

● Experience of a range of different artforms within the UK arts scene.

Please email a letter of application setting out why you are applying, your interest in the position, and how your skills and experience match the job description and ideal candidate specification (maximum 1,000 words) • Details of 2 referees, one being your current or most recent employer • Your Curriculum Vitae to recruitment@creativecrawley.com 

Good luck with your application and we look forward to hearing from you.