We are delighted to recruit a new Projects Producer to our vibrant team at Mortal Fools.
Application Deadline: Thursday 7th August 2025, 9am
This role offers an exciting opportunity for a producer to work on our innovative and diverse portfolio of activity in the North East, encompassing digital and live programmes with different stakeholders, communities, and beneficiaries.
The role is at the heart of Mortal Fools - working closely with everyone across the organisation including leadership, artists, producers, our production manager, administrative staff, and freelancers to maintain excellence in the management and delivery of our programmes.
Our projects are unconventional, innovative, varied, and require lots of organisational skills. The Projects Producer will contribute their creative and practical ideas, to help us develop and deliver our work effectively.
We expect the new post-holder will bring a proactive attitude, great people skills, and lots of initiative into our team and organisation, positively influencing our work.
We invite applications from people who can strongly articulate and demonstrate how their personal values align with the values of Mortal Fools, and how their skills and experience can fulfil this busy and varied producer role that is essential to the success of our charity.
The role is at the heart of Mortal Fools - working closely with everyone across the organisation including leadership, artists, producers, our production manager, administrative staff, and freelancers to maintain excellence in the management and delivery of our programmes.
Our projects are unconventional, innovative, varied, and require lots of organisational skills. The Projects Producer will contribute their creative and practical ideas, to help us develop and deliver our work effectively.
We expect the new post-holder will bring a proactive attitude, great people skills, and lots of initiative into our team and organisation, positively influencing our work.
We invite applications from people who can strongly articulate and demonstrate how their personal values align with the values of Mortal Fools, and how their skills and experience can fulfil this busy and varied producer role that is essential to the success of our charity.
Key Information
- Role Purpose: Provides lead project management for key projects in Mortal Fools’ portfolio including Melva, Youth Theatre, and Ensemble Young Company.
- Contract: Employed, permanent. Full-time with flexible working offered.
- Salary: £31—35k depending on experience and capability
- Location: Hybrid working between head office in Ashington, home working, and other external work locations, as required. This role involves liaison with various project teams / staff members and therefore requires the postholder to commute to the office regularly and be in the office for an average of 2-3 days per week (sometimes more during busy weeks).
- Application deadline: Thursday 7th August 2025, 9am
To Apply
Download our Projects Producer Recruitment Pack. Read this pack thoroughly, it is designed to help with your application. You can download a plain text version of the Projects Producer Recruitment Pack here.
When you’re ready to pull an application together, download and complete the following documents: Send the completed documents in Word document format (not PDF), as separate attachments with the email subject 'Application: Projects Producer’ to [email protected]
Note: Appointments will be made on merit, but we believe that diversity strengthens and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of all arts organisations to make the arts and cultural sector a more diverse and equal place. Black, South Asian, South-East Asian, and East Asian people, people from or connected to ethnically diverse communities, and disabled people are currently under-represented at Mortal Fools, so we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these people.
Additional Application Information:
When you’re ready to pull an application together, download and complete the following documents: Send the completed documents in Word document format (not PDF), as separate attachments with the email subject 'Application: Projects Producer’ to [email protected]
Note: Appointments will be made on merit, but we believe that diversity strengthens and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of all arts organisations to make the arts and cultural sector a more diverse and equal place. Black, South Asian, South-East Asian, and East Asian people, people from or connected to ethnically diverse communities, and disabled people are currently under-represented at Mortal Fools, so we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these people.
Additional Application Information:
- If you prefer, you can complete Section G of your application form via video submission instead.
- If you’d like to request the application pack in a different format, please email [email protected]
- If you have any general questions, queries, or feedback (including anything connected to accessibility or inclusion), please email [email protected] or call 0191 580 1250.
- If you’d like an informal conversation about this role with our Creative Producer Helen Ferguson, you can request this by emailing [email protected]
