Join Melbourne Recital Centre’s Operations team!

About Melbourne Recital Centre

Melbourne Recital Centre is an award-winning live music venue; where artists and audiences build a lifetime of experiences. We strive to create wonder for everyone, in and beyond the Centre and inspire our community through music.

With a unique focus on music, the Centre presents and hosts hundreds of concerts each year, representing the pinnacle of the art form as practiced by local and international performers traversing all genres of music from Baroque to post-rock. And our impactful learning and access activities provide opportunities for Victorians of all ages and backgrounds to experience and engage with music and the Centre in new and exciting ways.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the traditional custodians of the unceded land on which we gather, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and to all aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

About the position

Concert and Event Manager
Full Time; Fixed Term, flexible end date April 2025 (maternity leave cover).

As the Concert and Events Manager, your primary purpose is to provide high quality delivery of concerts and events, production management and administrative service and support. The Concert and Event Manager will manage and direct the technical team and production personnel on concerts and events whilst also liaising with Melbourne Recital Centre staff, agents, artists, tour managers, hirers, and other users of the Centre to provide effective support and coordination.

The successful candidate will have experience and skills in the following;

• Demonstrated experience working in an event management or technical production role for a performing arts venue, a performing arts sector organisation or in a touring capacity. (essential)
• A specific knowledge of the presentation of live performing arts, including music (classical and contemporary), and its production requirements. (essential)
• A broad general knowledge across a variety of (technical) production fields including audio, lighting, projection, audio-visual and staging. (essential)
• An ability to build and maintain relationships with people at all levels, forge partnerships and build trust across business areas, functions and organisations. (essential)
• Financial management and budget management skills including event specific budget development and cost control as well as interpretation and implementation of contracts. (essential)
• Knowledge and experience at using IT programs, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook and the ability to become a highly skilled user of the Melbourne Recital Centre’s venue management, CRM & ticketing systems (as required) for which training will be given. (essential)
• Demonstrated capacity to be highly organised, determine workloads, set priorities, work independently and under pressure in a multi-task environment and complete tasks within specified timeframes. (essential)
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and use initiative. (essential)
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills, as well as high standards of personal presentation and the ability to maintain good working relationships with a wide range of people both internal and external to the organisation. (essential)
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English. (essential)

Salary

Classification is Melbourne Recital Centre EA 2021-2024 Grade 4.1.1 + superannuation guarantee.

How to apply

Please read the position description (located in the Downloads section on this page) for information about the position and our key selection criteria.

Then upload your cover letter, a separate document addressing the essential key selection criteria, and your resume here by Sunday 10 November 11.59pm.

Please note we will be looking at applications on a rolling basis.

We are an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ages, religions, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, LGBTQIA+ people, those with disability, women, and people with cultural or linguistically diverse background. We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

Applications are open to those with full working rights in Australia.

Employment at Melbourne Recital Centre is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check, and on holding and maintaining a valid Working with Children Check.

Any qustions?

If you have any enquiries about the recruitment process or the position, please email Harriet Gregory, Events Producer, at harriet.gregory@melbournerecital.com.au.