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Job Description 

Job title: Festival Director 
Responsible to: Company Directors 
Location: Attic Office, Queen’s Hall Arts, Hexham, NE46 3LS 

About the Festival 

Hexham Book Festival is a non-profit making CIC. The main festival is delivered over 10 days in late April – early May and hosts at least 60 events over this period with its main venue being Queen’s Hall Arts, Hexham with events also taking place in Hexham Abbey and other venues around Hexham. The Festival enjoys a good relationship with all the main publishing houses and attracts headline authors with its reputation for well attended events, excellent hosts and the welcoming environs of a well-connected, small Market town in Northumberland.  The Festival also runs a dynamic year round programme of events for young people in schools and libraries across Northumberland plus a dedicated festival for schools and a Family Day of events -StoryLand. 

About The Role 

HBF is going through some organisational change and is seeking to engage an Interim Festival Director. This exciting opportunity is offered as a freelance position for a period of one year: the successful person will be expected to lead on programming, advise on strategy and funding, contribute to the vision of the organisation and report to the Company Directors quarterly. The post is in person, based in the Book Festival Office, Queen’s Hall , Hexham for a minimum of two days per week. Hexham Book Festival has an excellent track record at attracting funding and strong relationships with a range of stakeholders and funders, it also has a healthy box office income, we are therefore confident we can secure a sustainable future, but we have chosen to advertise an interim post while this is achieved and as the current founding Director steps away from the organisation.

The position will be supported in the initial months by the Founder/Director.

Closing date for applications is 4th October. For full details click here.