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Head of Operations, Finance and Development
The Head of Operations, Finance and Development is an exciting new role at CRIPtic Arts, and will work with the Artistic and Executive Director, alongside the Head of Programmes and Producing. You will work in a flexible and supportive disabled-centred team, with the ability to influence and develop organisational strategy and shape a dynamic and growing organisation at the forefront of the UK’s disability arts scene.
You will oversee operational systems, financial processes, legal compliance and risk management, including managing day-to-day financial operations, producing management accounts, and ensuring legal and statutory obligations are met, working alongside our accountants where required. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will also play a vital part in shaping and delivering CRIPtic’s strategy, including supporting business planning and development, fundraising, partnerships, and organisational growth. You will report to the Artistic and Executive Director, and work closely with the Head of Programmes and Producing.
To read more about the job, and to apply, please read the job pack below.
How to Apply
To apply, please send a CV (max 2 sides of A4) and cover letter (max 1-2 sides of A4 or a 5-minute video in spoken English or BSL). These should show us why you want this job, and should use your past experience and skills to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job description, and how this would enable you to deliver against the core responsibilities of the role successfully to team@cripticarts.org.
The application deadline is midday on Sunday 18 May. Interviews will begin w/c 26 May.
Please note that this process may involve two stages of interview and/or a task. Any task that we request will require 30 minutes of work, or less
If you’re invited to interview, we’ll ask you what reasonable adjustments you need us to make to make the interview process accessible. If you’d like to discuss reasonable adjustments you’d need to have in place in order to accept the role if offered it, we’d be more than happy to discuss this before or after your interview and/or before or after a job offer was made according to your preference.
Personal Assistant / Carer for Jamie Hale
Pay: £287 per shift
Hours: 24.5 hours (plus on-call) per week
Contract length: Permanent
Location: Lewisham
Application deadline: Ongoing
Usual working pattern: Working Sunday 07:00am to Monday 07:30am, on-call until Tuesday 07:30am
To apply: Email Jamie on applytobemycarer@gmail.com
About the role:
Are you:
- A driver
- A dog-lover
- Queer-friendly
- Fully vaccinated against COVID
- Interested in compressed hours and 24.5 hour shifts
- An adaptable and enthusiastic problem-solver
- Available to work from 07:00 on Sunday morning to 07:30 on Monday morning, then be on-call until 07:30 on Tuesday morning
If so, I have a great job for you. Perfect for people working in the freelance arts and cultural sector, and with no care experience required – come and work with me and provide the 1:1 care and support that keeps me alive and building my life and career.
I’m a profoundly disabled queer arts practitioner, leading organisations and developing solo work. I live with my wife and dog, and travel nationally and internationally. My life is great. I can do all this because I have fabulous support around me. For more than 11 years, I’ve been recruiting, training, and managing the team that enable me to live the life I want.
You’ll work alongside me as a creative leader, being my arms and legs, and enabling my successful, independent life. You’ll provide the personal and medical care I need, from ventilation to bowel management, secure in the knowledge that I’ll give you all the training you need to provide the care I require to the level I need.
Work one 24.5-hour shift per week, with one on-call day, earning £335/week plus up to £287 extra for working on-call shifts, with additional overtime available.
Embrace this opportunity to impact an exciting life, support me in high-profile projects, and travel across the UK and Europe. Be part of a fabulous team. Be one of the reasons I can succeed.
Care, Access and Support Worker*
Fee: £150 per day
Locations: London, Manchester, Bristol (though we are open to hearing from anyone in the UK)
*Please note we do not have any active opportunities – we are creating a database of individuals we can call on for opportunities as they arise.
CRIPtic Arts is looking to build a database of UK-based Care, Access and Support Workers to work with our Artistic Director Jamie Hale, and any other disabled creatives on our creative projects. Your role would be to enable the team member to perform to their maximum potential by reducing and eliminating the barriers they face and helping them manage their support needs in a flexible manner – whether they’re in a writers room, performing on stage, or directing a show.
As CRIPtic puts on work nationally, we often need additional care, access and support work both in London and while based at other theatres. This role may encompass a range of tasks to include creative access support but also manual handling and the provision of personal and medical care.
This is a great opportunity for you to be in exciting artistic spaces, supporting people whether they’re performing, directing, or scriptwriting, including at major artistic venues and with high-level contacts.
We are currently prioritising searching for London, Manchester and Bristol-based individuals but will expand this as work comes up in other locations.
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