Company Description
Minack Theatre is an open-air venue set on the cliffs of Cornwall, offering a distinctive and dramatic setting for live performance. Its season typically runs from Easter to October and features plays, musical, opera, comedy, music events, and children's storytelling. The theatre is also open to daytime visitors, who can explore the site and discover the story of its creation by Rowena Cade. The Minack Theatre combines artistic programming with heritage, tourism, and education, attracting audiences and visitors from the local community and beyond.
Role Description
The Director is responsible for the overall artistic and operational leadership of Minack Theatre in Porthcurno. This full-time, on-site role includes curating the seasonal program of performances and events, collaborating with visiting companies and artists, and ensuring a high-quality audience experience.
The director will be responsible for the following:
- 1. Agree annual budget and plan with the trustees and deliver.
- 2. Manage estate strategy plans including significant modernising and development plans.
- 3. Plan forward programme of plays and events.
- 4. Observe the charity’s objectives and aims.
Operations
- 5. Focus on visitor experience from start to finish, including accessibility.
- 6. Supervise the Minack Theatre’s responsibility for visiting companies, Minack productions (inhouse), Taking Part (education) and events.
- 7. Deliver an attractive and profitable retail and catering offering.
- 8. Develop continuous gathering of customer feedback.
- 9. Care for the Minack Theatre’s reputation at all times and act as ambassador.
- 10. Expect to act as duty manager from time to time.
The Minack Team
- 11. Ensure the staff structure is appropriate and resilient.
- 12. Manage training, internal communication, contracts, appraisals and disciplinary processes when required.
Governance
- 13. Support the trustee board meeting process.
- 14. Manage bank relationships.
- 15. Manage policies including: health & safety, safeguarding, food & hygiene and risk.
- 16. Act as the Safeguarding Lead.
Finance
- 17. Deliver monthly management reports and accounts for the trustees.
- 18. Deliver the annual report and accounts for audit.
- 19. Manage capital expenditure, PAYE and VAT accounting and insurance.
- 20. Ensure financial control is fully observed.
The Minack Team is up to 80 strong in season with 40+ permanent staff, and with multiple activities significant leadership and management skills are required. In detail, the following are essential for anyone applying for this role:
- 1. A demonstrable interest in the performing arts including production.
- 2. At least five years senior management experience in a tourism, cultural, heritage or events management environment.
- 3. Experience of leading a multi-faceted organisation, with delegation.
- 4. Experience of working on setting future strategic direction for an organisation of at least £1m turnover.
- 5. Experience of setting, managing and reporting against budgets.
- 6. Ability to manage a finance system.
- 7. At least three years experience of managing a building or site, ideally in the cultural or heritage sectors.
- 8. An understanding of Health & Safety management of a public building or site.
- 9. An understanding of the safeguarding needs in an organisation which works with young people and/or vulnerable adults.
Some or all of the following skills would be desirable:
- 10. Experience of producing theatre or other live events.
- 11. Experience of coaching and motivating teams to perform to their best.
- 12. Experience of engaging and working with freelancers.
- 13. Governance experience (e.g. as a trustee of a charity, director of a CIC or school governor).
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