Music Theatre Wales (MTW) are looking for a Community Producer to support our programmes of creative work in Butetown and Grangetown. We need someone who is focused on bringing people from these communities together and nurturing their potential. Someone who will empower people of all ages to join with us to explore what opera can and should look like within communities today, as audience, participants, facilitators and creators.
Where you come from is less important than what you bring to the table. You could be an experienced facilitator, community organiser or have experience organising events and getting the word out about what’s going on. What matters is that you are excited by the prospect of mobilising people to come together in their community, develop their creativity, to shake up the arts sector, and to bring opera back in touch with more people.
Salary: £26,100 total contract fee (equivalent to £210 per day)
Hours: Approximately 11 hours or 1.5 days per week (worked flexibly)
Location: Flexible and hybrid
Likely to be based at Grange Pavilion and Loudoun Culture and Media Centre (CMC), with some work at MTW’s offices at Chapter Arts Centre as well as the post-holders home base.
Contract: 21 months - August 2025 to April 2027
Deadline: Wednesday 4 June 2025
Interviews: Monday 17& Tuesday 18 June 2025
ABOUT MTW
MTW has been a force for change and development in opera in the UK, creating transformational opportunities for artists and audiences to create and access contemporary opera, often for the first time. In 2021 we set off on a new journey, asking what is it that opera needs to do NOW to play a vital role in contemporary life.
With a history of creating innovative work, we have applied this thinking to ourselves, asking what value can we bring to society as makers of new opera? Our answer is to re-imagine what opera is and create work that truly reflects Wales and the UK as it now is. We will achieve this by asking the very artists who have been ignored or excluded from opera to bring their skills, vision, stories and music to a form which is crying out for a new direction and a new audience. We aim to bring opera back in touch with more people and more communities.
Music Theatre Wales is re-imagining opera.
We are asking What is Opera? Who is making it? and Who is it for?
MTW is a registered charity and receives multi-year funding from the Arts Council of Wales.
EQUALITY AND INCLUSION
At Music Theatre Wales we are committed to achieving greater equality as an organisation and as an employer, and we aim to ensure that no one receives less favourable treatment as a consequence of having a protected characteristic. We believe that this is a matter of social justice and human rights, and that quotas don’t help to effect change unless cultures change within organisations. Change is happening throughout our organisation – in the work we make and the people who make it; the people we reach; the board of trustees and our staff.
We encourage applicants from the broadest range of backgrounds, with different skills and experiences to bring into our organisation. As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce we provide a guaranteed interview scheme to applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the job who are disabled, neurodivergent or people of the global majority.
If you’d like any further information before you apply, or just want an informal chat about the role, please email kathryn@musictheatre.wales