Arts Rentals Manager

We are currently looking for an Arts Rentals Manager to join on a full time 12 month fixed term contract.

The Arts Rentals, Partnerships and Administration team look after a broad range of responsibilities within the Arts Planning & Producing department, focusing on income-generation through the Arts Rentals programme, partnership management with Resident Orchestras and other key artistic partners, and management of a wide range of administrative systems and processes.

Main responsibilities include:

• Be the primary Southbank Centre point of contact for Artistic Rental enquiries, providing a timely and consistent response to promoters.
• Agree, draft and oversee contracts for artistic rentals from confirmation to countersigned copy on file, with administrative support from the Arts Administration and Rentals Assistant (AARA).
• To assess rental enquiries from the artistic rentals inbox, booking form and telephone number, working with the HARPA and Head of Classical Music to gauge their suitability in line with commercial and artistic considerations, and liaising with other relevant Artistic leads where necessary.
• Update shared documents and systems as necessary with new rentals, ensuring all rental events are accurate in Artifax (SC’s event database).
• Alongside the Head of Artistic Rentals, Partnerships and Administration, work to ensure the annual income target for Rentals is met by taking a proactive and entrepreneurial approach to booking events, and support the HARPA by keeping the Artistic Rentals budget up to date, monitoring performance against target and reconciling management accounts on a monthly basis.

Key skills that will help you in this role:

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in a live-events booking role, preferably in an arts organisation with a consideration of making artistic assessments against a range of strategic priorities.
• Demonstrable communication skills relevant to managing the hire of an events space with external parties, and the associated administrative skills.
• Significant experience of working with hire contracts and an understanding of standard terms and conditions, and organisational risk.
• Demonstrable financial management skills and the ability to monitor and track financial information against budget targets.

Please download the attached Job Description for a full overview of the roles responsibilities.

We welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse background or those who are D/deaf or disabled. If you wish to discuss reasonable adjustments such as a BSL interpreter for your interview please indicate this on your application form. Interviews will take place at The Southbank Centre. If you would like to speak to someone about any adjustments or concerns you can also email hrteam@southbankcentre.co.uk and we will be in touch with you to make the necessary arrangements.

By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. The Southbank Centre is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our staff.

If you feel you have just some of the required skills and experience but meet the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply; we are very open to continuing the training and development of individuals who are self motivated to acquire new skills and knowledge relevant to the role.