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Job Title: Company Assistant & Junior School Administrator (full-time)

Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black is looking for a Company Assistant & Junior School Administrator to join the team. This person will contribute towards the smooth running of our office, Junior School and touring logistics.

This role offers an interesting and fulfilling opportunity for a highly motivated individual as it offers many opportunities to learn how a touring company works. Ballet Black is a very small and accomplished team, and this job offers the Company Assistant & Junior School Administrator the chance to work across varied tasks. This position is mainly based in our Marylebone office during the day. Suitable candidates will be flexible about hours and working in the evening, weekends or different locations where necessary, should have a strong interest in dance or the arts and be a motivated self-starter. This position requires a high level of physical activity as the Company Assistant is required to move sets, flight cases and suitcases ready to go out on tour.

About Ballet Black

Founded in 2001, Cassa Pancho’sBallet Black is a professional ballet company that exists to make a fundamental change in the diversity of mainstream classical ballet–on stage, behind the scenes, and among audiences and participants.We are a multi award-winning touring company, producing two national tours a year. Venues we tour to include Barbican, Birmingham Rep, The Lowry, York Theatre Royal,The Royal Opera House and Theatre Royal Stratford East. We also run the Ballet Black Junior School for children and the Ballet Black Associate Programme for exceptional young women aged 12-16 years.

Salary: £24,000 – £26,000 pa depending on experience, plus a 3% pension contribution after 3-month probationary period has concluded. Job description to be reviewed at the end of a three-month probationary period.

For a full job description and person specification please click here to download the Job Pack.

Please apply in writing with:

• Your CV including the names and contact details of two referees (they will not be contacted without your permission)
• A letter of application which explains why you are applying for this position and how you meet the requirements set out in the job description and person specification.The letter of application should be no longer than two sides of A4.

These should be emailed to General Manager, Isabelle Drummond: [email protected] with the subject line ‘Company Assistant & Junior School Administrator.’ The CV and letter should be sent as attachments to the email.

Deadline: Midnight on Friday 17 May 2024

Interview date: Friday 24 May 2024

Start date: Monday 24 June 2024

If you would like an informal discussion about the position before applying, please contact Isabelle Drummond on the email address given above and this can be arranged.

We will aim to support any access requirements you may have during the recruitment process and ensure that reasonable adjustments are in place. If you have any access needs, or barriers to access that you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate to let us know either before applying or aspart of your application.

Ballet Black is an equal opportunities employer and would really like to hear from candidates from the widest range of diversity, culture and experience possible.

Please fill in our Equal Opportunities form with your application. This is anonymous and will not be seen by the recruitment panel or form any part of the assessment of your application. You’ll find this here: https://forms.gle/dUQ67bUpKgAMkBWM8