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Recruitment Pack - Administrator Complicité is looking for an organised, resourceful individual with the ability to remain calm under pressure to become its new Administrator. The Administrator is the focal point of our small office team in London that produces ambitious and collaborative touring theatre. If you have a superb telephone manner, excellent administrative skills and an interest in theatre and the arts then we would love to hear from you. There is no requirement for an arts background and we welcome candidates who believe they have transferable skills relevant to the post (see below). This is a pivotal role, maintaining the smooth running of the office and being the first point of contact via telephone and email. The Administrator supports, and is a part of, a staff team of seven: Simon McBurney Artistic Director Polly Gifford Executive Director Louise Wiggins Finance Manager Holly Foulds Communications Manager Laura Rolinson Project Producer Natalie Raaum Creative Learning Producer Miška Groidlova Administrator (current) Principal duties & responsibilities Office Administration

• Act as first point of contact for all telephone enquiries • Manage general email accounts and answer correspondence • Manage post, including distribution • Monitor and order stationery and office supplies • Arrange staff travel and accommodation when required • Arrange office cleaning and recycling • Coordinate parking permits and rubbish collection • Manage and update Filemaker Pro database and website mailing list • Maintain office filing and archive • General administrative support for the office team

Finance

• Manage and reconcile monthly petty cash • Maintain purchase spreadsheet for online transactions • Manage stationery and postage budgets

Production Support – in liaison with Project Producer & production team

• Book rooms for rehearsals, workshops, meetings and deliver/collect equipment • Order props, materials and supplies • Arrange travel, accommodation, visa and work permits

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• Support artist availability checks and auditions • Liaise with the Artistic Director’s PA to coordinate diaries

Creative Learning – in liaison with Creative Learning Producer

• Book and coordinate workshops with schools/universities/festivals (UK & international) • Liaise with teachers and Complicité practitioners, negotiate fees and issue agreements • Update Creative Learning database, book rooms & deliver/collect workshop equipment

Marketing & Digital

• Assist the Communications Manager with audience feedback surveys • Help to create assets for social media (e.g. Instagram stories), as well as posting and

uploading, updating the website and the digital archive • Monitor press and file articles both printed and digital • Coordinate company newsletter and manage printing and distribution • Assist the Communications Manager in managing company mailing lists • Update website content in liaison with Communications Manager

Merchandise

• Manage stock, orders and delivery of merchandise to venues, bookshops and individuals

• Seek opportunities for new points of sale • Organise sale of merchandise at venues while on tour

Fundraising

• Maintain relationship with individual donors, process renewals and update fundraising documentation

• Coordinate fundraising events and the company’s annual donor dinner, in liaison with the staff team

Sustainability

• Monitor the company’s Environmental Policy and report to funders • Research new opportunities around sustainable practice

Rights Requests

• Respond to rights requests, negotiate conditions, issue agreements and invoices • Obtain marketing/press material from rights already granted

Person Specification Essential

• At least 1 year’s professional experience in a similar role • Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Willingness to work flexible hours when required • Ability to work as part of a small team • Ability to work on own initiative • Interest in the performing arts • Ability to juggle many tasks • Knowledge of Microsoft Office

Desirable

• Knowledge of Mac computers, databases and IT systems • Interest in environmental sustainability

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Terms of Appointment Salary: £24,000 per annum Holiday: 25 days in each complete holiday year (April to March), plus bank holidays Hours of work: Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 10am–6pm, although

evening and weekend work will sometimes be required, for which Time Off in Lieu is given

Type of contract: Permanent, following successfully completed 3-month probation period Pension: If applicable, Complicité will make a 5% contribution to its workplace

pension scheme References: Offers of employment are subject to receipt of satisfactory references Training: Complicité staff are supported by being offered training as required and

are encouraged to join appropriate networks to support their professional development

About Complicité Complicité is an international theatre company based in London led by Artistic Director and co-founder Simon McBurney. Complicité creates work that strengthens human interconnection, using the complicity between performer and audience that is at the heart of the theatrical experience. Complicité works across art forms, believing theatre, opera, film, installation, publication and participatory arts can all be sites for the collective act of imagination. Founded in 1983, the Company has won over 50 major theatre awards worldwide. Complicité began life as a collective and this spirit of collective enquiry, of collaborative curiosity, has driven the work throughout its history. The Company is famous for making its work through extensive periods of research and development which brings together performers, designers, writers, artists and specialists from diverse fields to create the works – a process now known simply as ‘devising’. The main body of work has been of devised theatre pieces along with adaptations and revivals of classic texts but the Company has also created opera and worked in other media, with radio productions of Mnemonic and John Berger’s To The Wedding, Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein, a collaboration with The Pet Shop Boys in Trafalgar Square in central London, and The Vertical Line, a multi-disciplinary installation performed in a disused tube station. Alongside Simon McBurney’s work the Company supports artists through the Complicité Associates and ‘Developed with Complicité’ strands. The Company is committed to widening access and pro-actively seeks to support talented artists who are under-represented in the theatre sector. Learning and engagement are central to its work and its award-winning Creative Learning and Participation programme includes professional development, work in schools and colleges and participatory projects for a range of groups.

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Current Productions

I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! A Complicité Associates and Polka Theatre co-production Based on the book by Nigel Gray and Michael Foreman Adapted and directed by Catherine Alexander The energy of a gig with powerful storytelling and exquisite animation. It’s 1981 and ska music pulses. Young Ashley creates havoc by getting lost in a wild, imaginative world while Mum longs to return home to Barbados. When Jedi battles and forest adventures go too far, will Mum resort to the scariest threat of all? Accompanied by an original soundtrack, this is a funny, anarchic show for children and a nostalgic trip for adults.

The Last of the Pelican Daughters A Wardrobe Ensemble, Complicité and Royal & Derngate Northampton co-production In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. In 2019, four sisters are trying to divide their mother’s house between them. Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be paid, Maia doesn’t want anyone to find out her secret and Granny’s in a wheelchair on day release. Mum’s presence still seeps through the ceiling and the floors. The Pelican Daughters are home for the last time.

The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke Produced by Complicité At the Edinburgh International Festival we presented an excerpt of Clint Dyer’s passionate new play, The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke, directed by Clint Dyer and Simon McBurney.

Through the lens of cross-cultural adoption, including verbatim transcripts from adoptees, the play invites us to share the raw experiences of individuals torn between two different cultures and to contemplate how we navigate our own place in the world.

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Recent Productions everything that rises must dance Choreography Sasha Milavic Davies, Composer Lucy Railton A participatory dance piece for 200 women of all backgrounds, ages and abilities created in 2 weeks and performed at three London venues. The performance is a celebration of female relationships, an ode to the way women have danced throughout history, and a living archive of contemporary female movement.

‘It was a profound and life changing experience, emotionally and physically I grew and will continue growing along with my newfound friends it’s one of the finest things I have ever done and I am extremely proud of us all.’ Participant Supported by DanceXchange, Trinity Laban, Sadlers Wells, Dance Umbrella

The Encounter (2015-18) Directed & performed by Simon McBurney Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter is the true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre who, lost in a remote area of Brazil in 1969, had a startling encounter that was to change his life forever. Simon McBurney’s solo performance threads

scenes of his own life with details of McIntyre’s hallucinogenic journey, plunging audiences into a visceral inner voyage. As the mesmerising role reaches its climax, it asks urgent questions: about how we live and what we believe to be true. Combining virtuosic storytelling and ground-breaking binaural sound design, transmitted directly through headphones, The Encounter has collected multiple awards since its creation. The show has been performed 323 times in 12 countries to over 173,000 people. ‘...this production from the genre-bending Complicite company is one of the most fully immersive theater pieces ever created.’ The New York Times

‘The Encounter is a tour de force that shows contemporary theatre at its most immersive and thought provoking... an aural and visual delight’ Financial Times

A Complicité co-production with the Barbican, Edinburgh International Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens, Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre.

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Creative Learning & Participation

Learning and engagement sit at the heart of Complicité’s work and the Company’s award-winning Creative Learning programme provides a range of creative ways for people to engage with its work and to develop their own ideas and abilities.

Our core offer is provided year on year and consists of: • Open / Professional Development Workshops • In-School Workshops • Support for Arts Award and Artsmark • Online Resources • Training for Complicité Practitioners

The Company also develops a wide range of additional projects, some that draw on the themes of its productions, and some that aim to develop relationships with target audiences and under-represented groups. A consistent aim is to introduce people of all ages and backgrounds to theatre, specifically to the power of relevant, thought-provoking theatre, in engaging and accessible ways.

In 2018/19 projects included:

Balancing Act, a two-week research and development project, led by Complicité Associate Bea Pemberton, with participants aged 70+ from Spare Tyre, working with professional circus artists to explore the way you feel on the outside compared to how your mind makes you feel on the inside. The group was invited to perform at the Southbank (B)OLD festival in May 2018.

Change Makers – Barking Nuns, a research project, with the Barbican, that looked at the role of women in religion, with a focus on Saint Ethelburga, the first female Abbess of Barking Abbey. Directed by Complicité Associate Joyce Henderson, 24 Year 10 drama students and a choir group of school teachers created a performance that took place at the Broadway Theatre, Barking in June 2018.

Syrian Summer Camp, was run by Newman Catholic College to offer arts education, relief and a create platform for young people to express their feelings. Complicité led week-long workshops in devising, circus and performance skills.

Complicité Board of Trustees Sarah Coop Development Director, Artichoke Roger Graef Filmmaker Frances Hughes Partner at HFC Law Tom Morris (Chair) Artistic Director, Bristol Old Vic Chetna Pandya Actor and co-founder, Outspoken Arts Nitin Sawhney Composer and producer Stephen Taylor Management consultant/Co-founder, Redshift Strategy

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How to Apply Please send a letter (maximum 2 sides A4) explaining how your skills are suitable for this position, making particular reference to the Person Specification and give examples where appropriate. Please also tell us about your aspirations and how this role will contribute to achieving them. Please do not send a CV but ensure that your letter includes your contact number and email address. Please send your letter and Equality Monitoring Form to jobs@complicite.org addressed to Louise Wiggins. Or, if you wish to send by post, please mark ‘Confidential – Administrator application’ and send to: Louise Wiggins Complicité 14 Anglers Lane London NW5 3DG If you have any questions in advance of submitting your application please contact Louise Wiggins on 020 7485 7700. We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of society and welcome applications from everyone.

Application Deadline Monday 16 September, 9am

Interview Date Friday 20 September Travel expenses will be reimbursed to candidates travelling to interview from outside of London Please note – if you have not heard from us by Friday 20 September then unfortunately we have been unable to offer you an interview on this occasion. Due to the number of applications we regularly receive we can only offer feedback to interviewed candidates.