Senior Producer (Maternity Cover)
Factory International Closing date: Sun, 17 May 2026
- Full time
- £40k-£50k
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Job Description
The Producing Department delivers work across all our programmes at Factory International - both the year-round programme at Aviva Studios and Manchester International Festival that takes place every two years at various venues in Greater Manchester.
Our team of Producers play a central role in the team and the organization as the driving force behind delivering our curated and commissioned work. As a Senior Producer, you would line produce a number of significant and complex commissions from their initial development through to their realisation and presentation to the public. You could be delivering a flagship project in and around the building, in the digital realm, across the city or internationally, and working across a range of artforms.
On larger-scale, complex projects, you will line produce, working in partnership with an Executive Producer. On medium and small-scale projects, you will lead produce working more independently, or provide oversight to emerging or freelance producers.
This role will also line manage administrative members of the Producing team and support the department's Senior Leadership to develop the processes and systems needed to deliver new commissions and touring projects to their highest standard. The Senior Producer may also take responsibility for driving forwards areas of strategic work on behalf of the department.
Job Requirements
ESSENTIAL
- Proven experience of leading the delivery of complex productions or projects, managing large teams to deadlines and within defined budgets
- Excitement and enthusiasm in supporting artists to develop their work from the early stages of an idea through to delivery of the production
- A knowledge of delivering projects across a wide range of art forms
- Excellent people and team management skills and experience of working with artists and creatives teams
- Ability to and experience of managing multiple projects and priorities in a busy environment
- Excellent budget management experience and financial literacy and demonstrable experience of improving and streamlining systems and processes in this area
- Strong negotiation skills and experience of negotiating and drafting contracts from scratch
- Ability to engage with and use IT systems appropriate to the organisation
- The ability to both work on own initiative and to lead a project team
Job Responsibilities
PRODUCING RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead producing a number of assigned projects of complexity and scale, on which you will be:
- Working with the Artistic and Creative Director to develop and nurture creative relationships with key artists, partners and other organisations to build solid working practices
- Working closely with artists/creative teams from diverse backgrounds to develop projects from end to end. Recruiting artistic collaborators, undertaking R&D of ideas and drawing up schedules, managing logistics in order to deliver projects to the highest possible standards
- Leading on establishing working models for partner relationships and contracting, including the development of terms for co-production, co-commissioning and 'in association' partnerships
Job Overview
- Job Title: Senior Producer (Maternity Cover)
- Salary: £40k-£50k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Combined arts
- Role: Creative
- Contract: Contract
- Closing date: Sun, 17 May 2026
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Location:
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Job: Senior Producer (Maternity Cover)
Job: Senior Producer (Maternity Cover)
Organisation: Factory International
Postcode: M3 4JQ
How to Apply
The deadline for this advert is 10 May at 23:59.
About Factory International
Factory International is the organisation behind Manchester International Festival (MIF) and the landmark new cultural space, Aviva Studios, which opens its doors in 2023. Putting Manchester on the map as a global destination for arts, music and culture, Factory International invites the world’s most exciting artists to invent tomorrow together.