Development Assistant

Permanent, Full Time

to £25,000 pa depending on experience

Join CFT as our Development Assistant and play a key role in growing the theatre's fundraising income by supporting campaigns, nurturing donor relationships, and helping to deliver events that spark excitement and generosity. We're seeking an organised and people-focused individual to provide high quality administrative, data, finance, and stewardship support across the Development department, ensuring the smooth operation of the team while assisting on events and campaigns. If you love the arts, notice the details, enjoy being helpful, and are energised by working with others, we'd love to hear from you.

Full details of the role can be found on our website https://www.cft.org.uk/jobs/development-assistant

A few more things…

The role is based at Chichester Festival Theatre, working 10am-6pm Monday-Friday with flexibility for evening/weekend events (TOIL available).

We're an Equal Opportunities employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skillsets. We passionately believe that the more diverse and inclusive we are, the better we'll be as a company, an employer, a community hub and a theatre. We actively encourage applications from people that have been traditionally under-represented in the arts.

You may already have seen that CFT are Disability Confident and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process, including making reasonable adjustments to support all candidates, and offering an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

CFT have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer practice across our organisation.