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About the Role
The Venue and Programming Manager is responsible for the development, preparation, and implementation of events staged at the SCM Parramatta location. This role facilitates public-facing events and engagement with the broader Western Sydney community, requiring flexible working hours with regular evening and weekend work. The position provides logistical and professional support for rehearsals, productions, and special events.
Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of daily administration activities and services.
- Provide guidance to colleagues on ongoing activities, ensuring high-quality and efficient administrative support.
- Develop opportunities with key stakeholders, arts organisations, local community groups, performers, and musicians to program activations and performances.
- Serve as an efficient, high-quality communication/coordination and liaison point with University staff and key external stakeholders.
- Program masterclasses, VIP events, special events, recitals, schools, and community engagement activities in collaboration with Conservatorium staff.
- Provide sound policy and procedural advice to stakeholders.
- Exercise judgment and build collaborations to resolve complex problems.
- Work closely with the SCM Parramatta technical team, developing competence with venue systems and maintaining staff user guides.
- Act as an additional specialist venue and event delivery resource for activities and events at the Macquarie Street campus, Footbridge Theatre, and other USYD venues when required.
Requirements
- Experience in venue management and event delivery with demonstrable skills in stage management, concert production, technical theatre operations, WHS delivery, or FOH management.
- Tertiary qualifications in business administration or Arts, and/or equivalent relevant experience in arts administration.
- Previous experience in designing and delivering unique or recurring artistic programs in a theatrical or concert environment.
- Ability to identify and develop new relationships with potential venue users and hirers.
- Understanding of audiences and how to build rapport for repeat visitation and high community presence.
- Experience in developing and implementing event schedules, coordinating performers, and managing technical aspects of events in a musical or arts organisation is preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on providing excellent customer service.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines.
- Experience in financial management, including managing budgets and controlling income and expenditure.
- Understanding of sound systems, IT infrastructure, and event technology.
- A driver's license is preferable.
- Must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of employment.
- Successful completion of all required pre-employment or background checks.
- Declaration regarding investigation for or engagement in sexual harm or gender-based violence.
- Application for and obtaining a Working with Children Check clearance.
Skills
- Stage management
- Concert production
- Technical theatre operations
- WHS delivery
- FOH management
- Arts administration
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Customer service
- Prioritization
- Task management
- Financial management
- Budget management
- Income and expenditure control
- Sound systems understanding
- IT infrastructure understanding
- Event technology understanding
Location
- Sydney, Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
- Continuing position
Experience Level
- HEO 7
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in business administration or Arts
Salary/Compensations
- $117,133 p.a. + 17% superannuation
About the Company
- The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM) is one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious music schools, forming a distinctive part of Sydney’s arts and educational nucleus.
- SCM is renowned for its exceptional commitment to music, innovative programs, and partnership programs with Australia’s major music organisations.
- Since its inception in 1915, the Conservatorium has played an important role in shaping Sydney’s cultural identity.
Equal Opportunity
- At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive.
- We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve.
- We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTIQ+.
- We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
- We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Gold employer.