Artist Community Producer
Chisenhale Dance Space Closing date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026
- Part time
- £30k-£40k
- Apply now
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Job Summary
Job Description
Role Details
- Contract: 0.8 FTE (4 days / 32 hours per week), 1-year fixed-term
- Salary: £24,000 per annum (£30,000 FTE)
- Start: Early May 2026 (negotiable)
- Location: Chisenhale Dance Space, Bow, London E3 5QZ
Why Work With Us?
- Support marginalised dance and performance artists
- Facilitate and manage artist-led initiatives and events
- Work in a flexible, collaborative, and creative small team
- Contribute to anti-racist, anti-ableist, and inclusive organisational practices
As the Artist Community Producer, you'll be the key link between CDS and its 300-strong Artist Community, supporting artists to lead, shape and strengthen the organisation's programme and ethos.
Working within a small but dedicated team, you'll act as the main point of contact for the Artist Community and Artist Committee - building trusted relationships, leading on the recruitment and onboarding of new artists, and ensuring the community feels informed, connected and empowered at the heart of CDS.
This is a creative and people-centred role, focused on managing & facilitating the Artist Community, enabling artist-led activity and collective leadership to thrive. You'll design and hold purposeful, accessible spaces that create opportunities for artists to connect with each other and contribute to decision making. This includes organising and facilitating regular Activator Gatherings, coordinating our two annual community assemblies, and shaping agendas and convening monthly Artist Committee meetings. Through these multiple routes, you'll work collaboratively with the community to conceive, develop and project manage a range of artist-led programmes and initiatives.
Listening will be central to your approach. As the main facilitator of the CDS Artist Community, you'll balance advocacy and accountability - ensuring artists' voices meaningfully inform decision-making while helping the organisation move forward with clarity and cohesion.
Job Requirements
Essential Experience:
Experience working in an arts, education, or community-focused organisation, or comparable environment.
Experience facilitating and/or managing outreach, community, or participatory arts projects.
Interest in, or experience with, contemporary dance, performance, or other art forms, and a desire to engage with the work of artists in our community.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to relate to and build relationships with a wide range of people.
Strong organisational and administrative skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
Strong teamwork skills and the ability to work effectively within a small team.
A commitment to equity, inclusion, and anti-oppressive practices.
You do not have to have done this exact job before or tick all the criteria. We're looking for someone with enthusiasm, tenacity, and a commitment to creating a space where artists can thrive.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
Act as the primary point of contact for the Artist Community, leading on communications with them and building trusted, reciprocal relationships.
Lead the planning and facilitation of all Artist Community gatherings, including bi-monthly Activator Gatherings and two annual community-wide assemblies.
Sustain and deepen an efficient, inclusive, and equitable artist-led leadership structure, creating practical ways for artists to shape CDS programmes and ways of working.
Lead the planning and facilitation of monthly Artist Committee meetings, in collaboration with its members.
Work with the staff team, Artist Committee and wider Artist Community to conceive, develop and project-manage artist-led support programmes.
Support CDS to embed anti-ableist and anti-racist practice across programmes and organisational culture.
Work collaboratively across the team, contributing to organisational priorities and wider initiatives as required.
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Artist Community Producer
- Salary: £30k-£40k (pro-rata)
- Hours: Part time
- Artform: Performing arts
- Role: Admin, Secretarial & PA
- Contract: Contract
- Closing date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026
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Organisation: Chisenhale Dance Space
Postcode: E3 5QZ
How to Apply
Please send the following to Executive Director [email protected] by the deadline below:
● CV, with two referee contacts (only contacted if offered role)
● No more than 2 A4 page covering letter OR a 5-minute video telling us why you’re the right person for this role
● Complete the equality and diversity monitoring form
Key Dates
Applications Open: 6 March 2026
Deadline: 2 April 2026, midnight
Interviews: 10 April 2026
Start: Early May 2026
We encourage applications from those who are under-represented in our organisation and marginalised in our sector and society, especially those from the global majority, including those of African diaspora heritage, South Asian, East Asian, South-East Asian heritage, mixed heritage. Applicants from one of the above under-represented groups who can demonstrate they meet all the essential criteria will be prioritised for interview.
- Contact name: Reece McMahon
- Contact email: [email protected]
About Chisenhale Dance Space
Chisenhale Dance Space (CDS) has been making space for artists to lead, experiment, and create for over 40 years, serving marginalised dance artists in East London. We support an Artist Community that spans all ages, including performers, choreographers, teachers, curators, producers and advocates for sectoral change. We prioritise the needs of those who have been historically marginalised, including artists of Global Majority heritage and disabled/neurodivergent artists.