We’re Hiring: Artist Community Producer

We are looking for a Artist Community Producer! Could it be you…? 

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. You’ll create open, empathetic channels for dialogue, actively gather insight from across the community, and translate that learning into clear actions in collaboration with staff members and trustees. 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.

You’ll contribute to the ongoing, strategic evolution of our Artist Community and Artist Committee models, as an innovative, collective leadership structure — strengthening governance, transparency and shared responsibility. Central to this will be supporting CDS to continue embedding anti-ableist and anti-racist practice across our programme and wider organisational culture, ensuring equity, access and inclusion are embedded in how we work.

All team members at CDS enjoy flexibility and autonomy to shape their roles in response to both their own practices, and the needs of the organisation and its artists. For this reason, the current team all maintain independent freelance practices alongside their part-time CDS roles — an important element of our artist-led vision and the way we work. This makes the Artist Community Producer role a great opportunity for someone seeking a part-time position that complements and enhances any existing freelance work. They might be a freelance artist or producer looking to bring their skills and passion for activism into an organisational context for the first time; an experienced artist development or community producer seeking a new challenge; or someone with transferable management, organising and facilitation skills who wants to work more directly with artists in a grassroots setting.

We’re looking for someone committed to making active change in the arts, eager to work within an open and collaborative team, and excited to shape the role and the organisation by bringing bold new ideas and approaches to supporting the Artist Community.

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  • Job Title: Artist Community Producer
  • Contract Type: 0.8 (4 days / 32 hours) part time, 1 year-fixed term contract (with opportunity to extend)
  • Start Date: To be negotiated, ideally early-May 2026
  • Salary: £24,000 per annum (£30,000 FTE)
  • Pension: 3% employers’ contribution
  • Annual leave: 20 days + statutory bank holidays pro rata. CDS provides all staff members with a separate Christmas break outside this allocation.
  • Line Manager: Associate Director (with support of Director)
  • Normal hours/ days of work: The standard working schedule consists of 4 days (32 hours total, including a lunch break) between Monday and Friday, from 10am-6pm, and should include Thursdays. A regular working pattern will be agreed in advance. The business operates seven days a week. When weekend or evening work is required, with prior notice, time off in lieu will be arranged.
  • Location: To work from our office at Chisenhale Dance Space (64-84 Chisenhale Rd, Bow, London E3 5QZ) with flexible, home working available upon request.

 

  • Applications Open: 6 March 2026
  • Deadline: 2 April 2026
  • Interviews: 10 April 2026
  • Start date:Early May 2026

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Please send the following to reece@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk 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
  • Please complete the equality and diversity monitoring form by clicking here.

If you have questions about this opportunity, informal conversations prior to application can be arranged with Executive Director, Reece McMahon. Please contact reece@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk to arrange.


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