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Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: £45,000 – £52,000
Place of Work: Jacksons Lane, Highgate, London, N6
Application Deadline: 10am Friday 21 November 2025
First round interviews: Thursday 27 & Friday 28 November 2025
Second round interviews: Thursday 04 & Friday 05 December 202
Preferred start date: Before the start of March 2026

Jacksons Lane is seeking a new Creative Director & Joint CEO to lead our team alongside our Executive Director & Joint CEO. As the flagship arts and cultural venue in Haringey, Jacksons Lane hosts a year-round programme encompassing the best in contemporary circus performance, arts participation activities, cultural education, and outreach work for both its community and the sector as a whole.

We are looking for a strong artistic leader with vision, strategic thinking and collaborative skills. You may be an artist, producer or programmer creating artistic work or placing it into performance contexts. You will be comfortable leading teams – perhaps a company, venue or organisation – and inspiring others with your vision. You have a passion for quality and reaching new audiences on stage, through participation and in the community. You can balance artistic and business strategy, gain investment by creating programmes, build partnerships and engage the community. You are energised by developing artists and audiences, and believe in the power of the Arts to change lives for the better. You are an empathetic leader, ready to learn, comfortable making and owning decisions, and will bring ambition, kindness and a sleeves rolled-up attitude to co-leading our vibrant Arts centre.

Below you can download the full recruitment pack and equal opportunities form.

Jacksons Lane has a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of our staff. With this in mind, all candidates who indicate on the equal opportunities monitoring form that they are from an ethnically or culturally diverse background and/or are disabled and/or identify as LGBTQI+, and who meet the Essential Criteria of the Person Specification will be guaranteed an interview.

We are a PiPA (Parents and Carers in Performing Arts) partner. PiPA enables and empowers parents, carers and employers to achieve sustainable change in attitudes and practices in order to attract, support and retain a more diverse and flexible workforce. We are always happy to discuss solutions that allow people to balance their caring responsibilities with their working lives, for example through job shares or flexible working arrangements.

To apply for the role please send a copy of your CV and a detailed covering letter (no more than 1000 words in size 12 font) or video/audio file (no more than 8 minutes in length) to recruitment@jacksonslane.org.uk, including your full name and Creative Director & Joint CEO in the subject line of the email. Should you wish to submit your application in another way please get in touch. We would also appreciate it if you could complete an Equal Opportunities form and include this with your application so that we can continue to monitor and increase the accessibility of our recruitment process. This form is available below, alongside this recruitment pack and includes our Equality & Diversity Statement.

Recruitment Pack (pdf)

Recruitment Pack (plain text)

Equal Opportunities Form

Jacksons Lane is an equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the dynamism and broad range of work we do as an organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals and, as with all our work, strive to make our application process as accessible as we can.

If you wish to discuss the role before you apply, we are happy to offer an informal 1:1 chat with our recruitment consultant Bill Gee. To arrange an informal chat please email bill@b-g-a.co.uk

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