Assistant Production Manager
Salary: £30,600 per annum, pro rata (£24,480 per annum actual)
Based: Oxford, OX1 1BP
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 32 hours per week, including regular evenings. This employer envisages a working pattern of 4 to 5 days per week.

Our client is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces with an international reputation for innovation and ambition. Their gallery presents a programme of changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art each year, coupled with an extensive programme of education, events and performance projects involving several thousand people of all ages and backgrounds.

About You and the Role

This post is a vital part of the Programme Team. Reporting to the Production Manager, this role is responsible for a range of practical and production focused activities and objectives relating to realising the exhibitions and live programme to deadline and in budget.

The successful candidate will be a proactive and positive member of the Exhibitions team, attending quarterly programme meetings, weekly production meetings and other meetings as required. In addition to supporting the Exhibitions and Communities, Practice and Participation teams, they will assist the Commercial team with event support, the packaging of limited editions for the shop and the installation of commercial displays. They will also be required to assist the Production Manager and Head of Operations with building maintenance and have key holder responsibilities.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Strong attention to detail.
• Good IT skills.
• Strong Organisation skills
• Good knowledge of AV and sound installation.
• Excellent time management.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to see through projects from concept to delivery.
• Positive approach to collaboration and team working.
• Efficient approach to working with effective use of resources.
• Good knowledge of artwork fabrication and exhibition displays.
• Basic carpentry skills.

Experience installing, packing and handling 2D and 3D artworks.

Desirable

• Budget Management.
• 3D software (Sketch-Up).
• Knowledge of metalwork.
• Basic knowledge of electrics.
• Experience of working with artists.
• Interest in contemporary art.
• Experience of risk management.
• Experience of managing others.

About the Employer

Our client is one of the UK’s most exciting and influential contemporary art organisations, renowned for its bold and ambitious artistic programme that promotes diversity and internationalism and celebrates contemporary art as a progressive agent of social change.

This art space and gallery welcomes approximately 100,000 visitors each year with approximately 15,000 attendances by schools and community groups in creative learning and participation activities. The organisation’s digital content reaches 450,000 through their digital channels annually. Through a wide range of high-quality content creation and programming, they aim to make contemporary art accessible and engaging to the widest audience and to promote creativity in all its visual forms. Over the last 60 years this organisation has brought some of the world’s most important artists to Oxford, and the UK, and has developed an international reputation for pioneering emerging and under-represented artists.

Our client is a registered charity and receives core funding from Arts Council England and Oxford City Council, and the generous support of individuals, trusts and foundations, sponsors and friends.

Benefits

• Pension - An auto-enrolment pension scheme is in place with Legal & General. Under pension auto enrolment legislation, the employee will pay 5% (before tax relief) and the employer will pay 3% of qualifying earnings to the Legal and General plan.
• Holiday 25 days annual leave plus eight public bank holidays (Pro-rata).
• Staff discount in Cafe and shop.

Closing date for Applications is Midnight on Sunday 12th October
Interviews for the role will be week commencing Monday 20th October

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

This employer is committed to creating equality of opportunity for all and they value diversity in their team. As part of their Anti-racism Action Plan, they welcome applications from people from the Global Majority who are under-represented in the workforce in this sector.

No agencies please.