Treasurer - Crescent Arts Centre

The role of the Treasurer is key in ensuring that there is strong financial oversight at board level, and effective financial management at staff level. We will be looking to the Board member who takes on the Treasurer role to provide strong support in helping the Crescent to achieve its ambitions and oversee the finances and financial management of the organisation successfully through the next few years.

The successful candidate will have experience working at senior levels in relevant organisations.  Experience in the public, private, community or voluntary sectors and knowledge of good governance is desirable.
 

For full details please download the Treasurer Recruitment pack.

APPLY

If you would like to apply to join our board, please email [email protected] with the following:

• A supporting statement, explaining how you believe your skills and experience

match the requirements of the role, directly addressing the person specification;

• A comprehensive CV including details of your achievements in each role, and including details of two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. Referees will not, of course, be contacted without your prior consent.

Closing date for applications is 12 noon Friday 1 November 2019

CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE
The Crescent Arts Centre is a historic cultural venue in the heart of south Belfast, which provides opportunities for people to meet, be inspired, experience and participate in a wide range of art forms.

Renowned for its cultural vibrancy, diversity and welcome, the centre:

• Programmes over 750 weekly creative learning classes and workshops, 40 weeks a year, in a wide variety of art forms – the largest creative learning programme in Northern Ireland
• Runs a vibrant programme of live events - from theatre, music, dance, film, cabaret, readings, poetry, literature, etc.
• Runs the annual Belfast Book Festival and CityDance, as well as hosting a wide range of other festivals in the City. These festivals help raise the profile of the centre and reach out to new audiences.
• Hosts 14 carefully selected arts organisations, which occupy space in the vibrant creative environment the Crescent provides. The current residents are: Open Arts, Tinderbox, Dumbworld, Belfast Trad, Lamb Films, John Morrison, Sestina, Belfast Music Society, Theatre NI, Du Dance, Maiden Voyage, Dance Resource Base, and Bright Young Things.
• Through our Outreach and Education programme we are particularly focused on narrowing life inequalities by providing artistic and cultural activities for people who do not normally do so.

Find out more: https://crescentarts.org/