Creative Learning Producer (Maternity Cover)

With circa 2,000 seats, Sunderland Empire is the largest seated theatre between Manchester and Edinburgh. A grade II listed building from the Edwardian era, with an exquisite Rococo interior, it hosts an exciting and high-profile programme, from the latest West End musicals and the most spectacular Disney shows, to community performances, rooted in the city and serving the north of England.

The Creative Learning department engages local adults, children, and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds through our work in schools, our regular weekly programme of classes and our community projects.  You will also benefit from the support of Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust who champion our work.

The Creative Learning Producer (Maternity Cover) role:

This is a position for a motivated and dynamic arts professional to produce a Creative Learning programme in the Sunderland Empire Creative Learning department. You will manage and deliver creative learning programmes for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. You’ll join a dedicated and dynamic venue team and work with them and, with national colleagues, to develop relationships with show producers, local organisations, and partners.

You are a passionate, multi-faceted and talented individual, who is highly motivated and committed to inclusive arts practice. Your programmes are locally driven, addressing the needs, challenges, and opportunities of our immediate local area, and the live entertainment industry as a whole. You are committed to continued professional development and excited by the opportunity of sharing expertise by collaborating across the nationwide Creative Learning team.

Please see an insight into the work of Creative Learning at ATG, through the 2024 Creative Learning Annual Review. We also have a number of project films available which give a further flavour of our work, available if requested.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and deliver all aspects of a creative learning programme for ATG Entertainment Sunderland Empire, and in response to the national Creative Learning strategy.
• Build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders across the wider arts community including local authorities, education, cultural organisations, and funders; as well as colleagues, partners, and key producers bringing shows to the venue.
• Effectively manage agreed budgets to ensure income and expenditure targets are met.
• Effectively monitor and evaluate activity, and work with colleagues to communicate Creative Learning opportunities and successes to the broadest audiences.
• Recruit, engage and support Sunderland Empire Creative Learning staff, freelance practitioners, casual staff, and suppliers.
• Fulfil any other task as reasonably required

Your experience, skills, and qualities

We welcome transferable skills from other industries and backgrounds. If you can demonstrate many of the essential skills, qualities and experience we encourage you to apply. We can provide training where necessary.

Essential

• Experience of working in an arts or educational role producing and delivering high quality learning and engagement projects for diverse range of groups.
• Experience of project management, including excellent finance management, generating earned income, and contributing to fundraising campaigns &/or sponsorship initiatives.
• Experience of managing people and working in partnership.
• Experience in recruiting and supporting arts workers, freelance artists, and practitioners.
• Understanding of marketing and communications and their role in Creative Learning.
• Understanding of safeguarding duties and best practises.
• Resourceful and adaptable with the ability to manage multiple projects, relationships & partnerships.
• Highly organised, able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Computer literate including Office 365.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

Desirable

• Experience as a skilled arts practitioner.
• Knowledge of the local Creative Learning landscape and the broader cultural, and education sectors.
• Knowledge of Privacy in the contexts of Creative Learning.
• Good knowledge of multi-arts genres, disciplines, and approaches.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

About Us – Our values

ATG Entertainment’s values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.

• THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
• CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
• DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
• PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

Our culture

You’ll help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to play their part in achieving our goals and upholding our Corporate Social Responsibility priorities:

• Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
• Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
• Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement – A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories – stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone.

We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

If you’d like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please email  for a confidential discussion.

Please note that all appointments will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment check including DBS check and references.

Salary: £31,000Closing Date: