Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Salary Range: £30,000 to £34,000 (depending on experience)
Location: Working at The Sharp Project, Thorp Road, Manchester, M40 5BJ

Although the last two years has presented us with a number of challenges, the charity is in a strong and robust financial position – thanks to multi-year grants from funders, our growing international partnerships and careful financial management.

It’s a very exciting time to join SICK! – We have embarked on a 10-year strategic community engagement programme in the Moston and Harpurhey neighbourhoods of North Manchester, including rolling out a major programme of arts and mental health work.

We recently delivered our 2022 Festival and as part of this we have developed newly commissioned art works with partners in South Africa, Finland, Netherlands, and Switzerland.

We have also recently developed our programmes and business plan to 2026 and submitted our three-year National Portfolio Organisation application to Arts Council England. The new postholder will play a key role in delivering this, alongside staff and Trustees.

We’re looking for a dynamic and inspirational individual to join us, to work closely with me and our fantastic team to help us achieve our potential and grow our impact and reach. Someone who brings experience of socially-engaged practice, managing budgets, and seeing commissions through for inception to evaluation, who is also passionate about, and interested in, the areas in which SICK! operates – arts, health, diversity, community development and international work.

While we are proud of our diversity achievements in our creative programmes, recognised by ACE in our Strong Creative Case rating, we want to further diversify our workforce to be representative of all sections of society.

We actively welcome candidates who are currently underrepresented in the arts including people who face discrimination as a result of racism, those who self-identify as LGBTQIA+, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds and those who self-identify as disabled.

We know that everyone has different commitments in their work/home lives and we are open to requests for varied working hours or work patterns. These will be considered taking into account the impact on the organisation and work colleagues.

We look forward to hearing from you.

All the best – Helen Medland, CEO/Artistic Director