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Ad Infinitum is looking for a driven, strategic and creative Executive Director to join the company from September 2025. Following nearly two decades of artistic excellence, this is an exciting time of growth and transformation for the company as we enter the next chapter of our journey.
The Executive Director will play a key role in driving and delivering the strategic direction of the organisation, whilst diversifying income streams, maximising the organisation’s potential, navigating risk and securing partnerships.
This is an opportunity for an imaginative, resourceful and collaborative arts leader to have a real, measurable impact on the next stage of Ad Infinitum’s development as we continue to adapt, evolve and strengthen our impact.
This page will tell you the key information about the role and how to apply. Please read the full job description and additional information in the downloadable recruitment pack before applying.
If you have any questions, would like this information in a different format or want to chat about your suitability for this role, please email Co-Artistic Director Nir Paldi at recruitment@ad-infinitum.org.
KEY INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROLE
Salary: £42,162 per annum (£33,729 pro rata)
Contract type: Permanent, part time - 32 hours per week. Some evening and weekend work might be required.
Responsible to: Ad Infinitum Co-Artistic Directors
Pension: NEST pension, employer contributions 3% of salary.
Hours of work: 4 days a week (0.8 FTE) (the organisation’s working hours are 09:30 - 17:30 but we offer flexible working hours and are open to conversations about how the hours could be split across the week). We operate a TOIL system.
Place of work: Remote working. Ad Infinitum is based in Bristol and does not currently have a physical office. Attendance at meetings in central Bristol is required, but we can be flexible with the frequency and pattern and are happy to discuss this with the candidate.
Access: We are committed to creating a more diverse and representative arts sector and will work to provide access support or arrangements that are required for you to undertake this role effectively.
Annual Leave: 22 days plus bank holidays per annum (17.6 days plus 8 bank holidays pro rata). Following two years in the organisation this will come up to 23 days pro rata and following four years of service will come up to 24 days pro rata.
Training: The role will include opportunities for training and development.
You will thrive in this role if you….
Are strategic, creative and experienced arts leader
Enjoy working as part of a friendly core team of six
Are self-motivated and happy with working remote
The main areas of the role are:
Strategic vision and planning
Fundraising and income generation
Developing partnerships
Financial oversight and management
We actively encourage people whose backgrounds, lived experience and skills are underrepresented in the sector to join us and positively impact our working practice. Any candidate who self-identifies as Deaf, deaf, hard-of-hearing, disabled, neurodiverse, and/or from the Global Majority and meets the essential criteria is guaranteed an interview as these individuals are under-represented in our current workforce.
Interested? Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the role or working at Ad Infinitum. We’d be happy to have an informal chat with you before you apply. Please email Ad Infinitum’s Co-Artistic Director Nir Paldi at recruitment@ad-infinitum.org
ABOUT AD INFINITUM
Ad Infinitum is a diverse-led, multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed touring theatre company based in Bristol. Founded in 2007, we embrace difference through collaboration, enabling a more representative theatre culture to exist by placing those minoritised by society at the heart of our work.
Our wide-reaching programme includes creating new theatre productions with national and international collaborators; supporting diverse and underrepresented creatives through our Artist Development Programme; touring critically acclaimed productions from our portfolio; and delivering inspiring Learning and Engagement activities with children and young people.
You can find out more about us and our productions in the recruitment pack and on our website here
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please send us:
A cover letter: your cover letter should be no longer than two A4 pages and explain what attracts you to the post, how your skills and experience match the person specification and any other information which demonstrates your suitability for the role.
A CV: this should include details of your previous employment and work experience, including names of employers, dates of employment, job titles and a brief outline of your responsibilities. You should also include any relevant educational and training qualifications, plus any other personal information you may wish to include.
If you’d rather apply for the role in a different way, for example by sending an audio or video application, feel free to do so. Please make sure that it’s good enough quality for us to listen/see and that it’s no longer than 10 minutes.Complete this anonymous equal opportunities monitoring form online by following this link: https://forms.gle/qEKXZ4eE8ELsyLpX7
Applications should be sent by email to: recruitment@ad-infinitum.org. Please write “Executive Director” in the subject line and attach your cover letter and CV, or include a link to the audio / video file.
We actively encourage people whose backgrounds, lived experience and skills are underrepresented in the sector to join us and positively impact our working practice. Any candidate who self-identifies as Deaf, deaf, hard-of-hearing, disabled, neurodiverse, and/or from the Global Majority and meets the essential criteria is guaranteed an interview as these individuals are under-represented in our current workforce. If this applies to you, please briefly indicate this in your application or in your accompanying email.
The deadline for applications is Monday 23 June at 12pm (midday).
We will aim to shortlist and send invitations to interview by 24 June. First round interviews will be held on Tuesday 1 July. Second round interviews will be held on Tuesday 8 July. We will appoint by 18 July 2025 to start in September 2025 or as soon as possible. If you are successful then we will collect two references after the second round interviews and contact them with your permission.
Interviews will be in-person in Bristol and we will cover reasonable travel expenses for travel from outside of Bristol. Both rounds of interviews will be with a panel made up of team and board members from Ad Infinitum.
Find out more about how we conduct interviews in the recruitment pack.
If you have any questions, would like this information in a different format or want to chat about your suitability for this role, please email Co-Artistic Director Nir Paldi at recruitment@ad-infinitum.org.
