EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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:

• Report to and advise the Trustees and Lead Producer on financial management, reporting controls and risk management
• Review financial and risk management processes
• Monitor financial controls, for example, reconciliations
• Support the Bookkeeper on, for example, gift aid or charity accounting questions
• Attend 4 Trustee meetings (usually online)
• Lead Finance Group meetings (usually online)
• Liaise with Independent Examiner

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: 

• Is keen to gain experience working in a small arts organisation.
• Enjoys communicating with people. (Even when they are sometimes grumpy and confused!)
• Is a proficient writer and digitally literate / quick to learn.

Overview:

Job Title: Office Intern / Audience Liaison

Hours: Flexitime amounting to 10 hours per week

Contract: Fixed-term

Location: Remote / hybrid to suit postholder