Senior Producer (Collections)

At lakeland arts

Location: Windermere and Kendal, Cumbria

Contract: Full Time (start date 17.10.21)

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 per annum, depending on experience

Posted date: 10/08/21

Closing date: 12/09/21

Job Description

Lakeland Arts has a long history of excellent exhibitions and commissions. In this pivotal and progressive new era, you recognise the challenges that cultural and creative organisations face, and you will bring relevance and urgency to your work.

As Senior Producer (Collections) you will be responsible for an ambitious and relevant museum and gallery programme, connecting people directly with the diverse portfolio of venues, nationally important collections, and spellbinding spaces. You will be instrumental in defining a new cultural offer in Kendal as the Abbot Hall and Lakeland Museum plans develop, redefining what museums and galleries can be in rural towns.

You will be an experienced museum professional, have strong project management skills and an understanding of the complexity of managing a wide range of collections across multiple sites.

You will lead and nurture an ambitious team to work collaboratively with colleagues, communities, and collections. Through research, partnerships, and innovative commissions, you will bring a vibrant cultural focus to a very popular and active county and national park.

Job Duties

Key Responsibilities:

To create, then project manage and curate, a new strategy for commissioning bold and relevant work at Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts house, Windermere Jetty Museum and Abbot Hall (onsite).

To co-produce a dynamic, inclusive, accessible, and multi-approach to programme (onsite, offsite and online).

Manage and coordinate the commissioned and collections focused programmes with colleagues. Overseeing logistics ensuring all packing, transportation, insurance, and administration are in place with Exhibitions & Collections Manager and Collections Curator.

Direct and manage the Producing team (working title), to continue to collaborate with communities, collections and to ideas that resonate with contemporary issues.

Develop detailed knowledge of Lakeland Arts’ collections to support access for wider groups of people, develop research partnerships and to enable broader use of collections for a people-focused programme.

How to apply:

You must complete an application form available to download from the Lakeland Arts website www.lakelandarts.org.uk/jobs in Word and PDF formats. You may attach a covering letter but please don’t send pictures or photographs. Sorry, but we don’t accept CVs.

In completing your application, you must tell us how you meet the essential qualification, experience, skills and qualities outlined in the Person Specification. We’ll assess how you meet them through the application form and interview. We’ll let you know if we plan to include a presentation or a skills test if you are invited for interview.