Second Echo Ensemble
Executive Producer
Second Echo Ensemble Executive Producer
Applications Open: Friday 1 November
Applications Close: Monday 25 November
Please note we will be shortlisting as applications are received.
Interviews: Week starting 2nd of December
Start date: This is a two-year fixed-term contract with an ideal start date in early 2025, or as negotiated, for the right applicant. Subsequent extension to a permanent agreement will be subject to funding and performance within the contracted term.
Location: The position is based in nipaluna/Hobart at the SEE office and studio, 228 Liverpool Street, Hobart. This is not a position that can be performed remotely.
Remuneration: $45 per hour for 30 hours per week, $93,600 FTE per annum + 12% Superannuation.
About the Role
At SEE we emphasise the importance of collaboration between the artistic and operational leaders, ensuring both the creative vision and the business needs are equally prioritised and supported. The Creative Director drives the creative vision, while the Executive Producer manages the organisational and financial strategy.
This role presents a unique opportunity for a dynamic, visionary leader to shape growth and drive success. We’re looking for an entrepreneurial spirit eager to make a lasting impact by advancing our mission to create powerful, inclusive art that resonates across diverse audiences.
As a key member of the leadership team, you’ll collaborate closely with the Creative Director and Board to develop and realize our strategic vision, fostering sustainable growth and strengthening the company’s future.
You will be responsible for managing the organisation’s financial health, work health and safety and supporting excellence in governance. You will ensure compliance with best practices in human resources [HR], implementing HR principles into operational guidelines and reporting and providing advice to the Board.
You will report to the Creative Director and work closely with the Board Co-Chairs.
About Second Echo Ensemble
Second Echo Ensemble [SEE] creates and produces interdisciplinary art and live performance. Based in nipaluna/ Hobart, the company has toured around Australia and internationally, and is a leading creative force in the development of a narrative that speaks to the rich diversity of Tasmania.
With strong artistic purpose and vision, SEE continues to break the mould of art, creative practice and performance in Tasmania. We are committed to reimagining how art is made, who can make it and where it happens.
Our mission is to redefine expectations of possibility and to challenge assumptions we hold about ourselves and others.
Our purpose is to develop, create and present exceptional art that challenges assumptions, shakes up stereotypes and gives voice to untold stories that result in real social change.
We don’t make art about having a disability or not having a disability. We support diverse artists to make work about life, about its surroundings, its imaginings, its rhythms, its angers and its celebrations. We wield our art practice as a force to normalise diversity in our communities.
As Tasmania’s leading professional inclusive arts company, SEE plays a vital role in the Tasmanian arts ecosystem, ensuring that art is for everyone. We employ and deliver creative opportunities for those living with mental illness, chronic pain, disability, neuro-diversity, and long-term under-employment.
Our services include training, community workshops, mentoring, performances, exhibitions and advocacy. We mentor and employ disabled and marginalised people to work as professional artists. Our innovative programs address the barriers which prevent them from realising their ambitions and finding employment within the creative industries.
We passionately believe that everyone, everywhere, has the right to thrive, to be seen, to be heard and to be a part of our community.
Second Echo Ensemble is in a strong financial position, with a focus on sustaining diverse income streams. We currently hold multi-year investment from Arts Tasmania, Creative Australia, and the Department of Social Services, alongside funding to support our artists’ development through their NDIS plans. Other recent financial partners include City of Hobart, the Myer Foundation, Regional Arts Fund, Skills Tasmania, and Healthy Tasmania. Our financial strategy is centred on growth and stability, enabling us to continue fostering innovative artist and art form development programs. As we expand our impact, we are committed to securing new partnerships and funding opportunities to support our ambitious future projects.
Executive Producer Core Focus Areas
Strategic and Program Planning:
Financial Management:
Contract Management and Business Partner Relations:
Oversee contract negotiations, agreements and ensure positive relationships with funding bodies, partners, service providers, artists, arts workers and consultants, ensuring favourable terms to support the company’s operations.
Human Relations, Compliance, Work Health and Safety:
Key Selection Criteria
Our Ideal Candidate
As a representative of SEE, you will exhibit a professional, flexible approach to your work, be curious, resilient and be able to easily adapt to an active and vibrant workspace. Our ideal candidate shows empathy and courage, and is very comfortable and capable when engaging with people from diverse backgrounds. You will share and promote the Company’s values, vision, mission and methodology.
SEE takes our responsibility to ensure the health and safety of our artists, staff, visitors, and community very seriously. You will hold a current Working with Vulnerable People’s card and abide by the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. You will observe all work health and safety, security and equal opportunity initiatives to contribute to a safe, healthy and ethical workplace.
SEE is a Google Workspace company. This role requires strong digital literacy, and/ or capacity to learn. We operate within a range of Google platforms including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google docs, sheets and Google Forms. We use financial software from Xero.
SEE is a small sized, dynamic and fast paced company with a range of projects and programs on the go at any one time. We work as a team to achieve objectives with generosity and care for everyone, supporting each other across the organisation.
This role will attend and support SEE events and functions outside normal working hours, as required, to support delivery and relationship development. You may be called upon to undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by the Creative Director or the Board.
If you have questions or would like to have a chat, please email hello@secondechoensemble.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
To Apply
Please Email:
- A one-page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria
- Your CV or resume
- Contact information for 2 referees
