General Manager - Pimlico Musical Foundation

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Job Description - General Manager

Job background/context:

The PMF was founded in 2015 to make available a high-quality choral musical education to children in Pimlico, an area which includes considerable poverty as well as pockets of affluence. Rooted firmly in the English choral tradition, the Foundation does this via in-schools work, a Children’s Choir, a smaller group of Foundation Scholars, and an Adult Chorus. PMF has started to develop some of the community engagement programmes listed in its recently-agreed Strategic Plan. Teaching is carried out by an expert group of specialist Teacher-Singers. The charity’s success over the first six years of its existence is shown in the excellent levels of participation among local children from all ethnic and social backgrounds, and their parents. 

The PMF’s vision for the next five years is that all children in Pimlico should have access to a high-quality choral and musical education and the support they need to pursue that education throughout their school careers. The PMF aims to achieve this by expanding operations to include all local primary schools, creating a communication strategy to extend the charity’s reach across the community, strengthening the identity of the Children’s Choir and the Adult Chorus, and implementing a fundraising strategy to reduce dependence on grants from trusts and foundations and increase corporate support (current operational costs are £160k pa). We are looking for an exceptional individual to take up the post of General Manager to help us achieve these goals.

More detail on the charity, our activities, and our plans for the future can be found in the PMF Strategic Plan.

Key Responsibilities: 

General responsibility for PMF activities, including:

• Managementof the PMF’s choirs, reporting to the Artistic Director as appropriate, including: 
  1. managing the recruitment and pastoral oversight of the members of the Children’s Choir and Foundation Choir;
  2. managing the Adult Chorus;
  3. managing and implementing a marketing plan (this may include recruiting and managing additional marketing staff);
  4. booking rehearsal space;
  5. oversight of safeguarding working closely with the DSO and DSL;
  6. oversight of evaluation survey work;
  7. event promotion;
  8. coordinating and attending concerts;
  9. managing extra event staff; and
  10. attending weekly steering group meetings as required, producing reports for the Trustees and attending Trustee meetings as required. 
• Development, including:
  1. implementing the Charity’s current Strategic Plan 
  2. maintaining and developing the PMF website; and 
  3. assisting the Artistic Director in the development and implementation of partnership projects. 
• Fundraising, including: 
  1. finding new  sources of income and maintaining an up-to-date list of such sources, including grant-awarding bodies, corporates and individuals; 
  2. maintaining a grant and donation application timetable and associated records;
  3. providing donors and grant organisations with regular monitoring reports as required;
  4. cultivating current and potential funders and fund administrators including regular meetings and events, and a newsletter;
  5. composing grant applications;
  6. writing funding reports for the board of trustees (typically three or four a year); and
  7. devising a Fundraising Strategy that incorporates individual giving, corporate sponsorship, trusts and foundations, and match-funding campaigns; and
  8. developing and managing the Friends scheme. 
• Compliance,including:
  1. keeping up-to-date with the relevant law and regulation;
  2. children’s registration forms;
  3. DBS checks in liaison with the Safeguarding Officers;
  4. GDPR issues;
  5. Health and Safety;
  6. maintaining other relevant organisational policies; and
  7. maintaining files and archives.
• Such other duties as may arise in the growth and development of the PMF.

Person Specification:

Essential: 

• commitment to the objectives of the charity.
• articulate, with the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with a wide variety of audiences, social settings and age groups.
• good time- and people- management skills.
• self-motivated, confident and proactive.
• able to multitask and prioritise.
• attention to detail.
• confidence in use of IT (word processing, google suite and database management).

Desirable:

• experience in charitable fundraising.
• knowledge of arts administration.
• experience in marketing.
• experience in evaluation. 

For an informal conversation about the role, please email James Day (Artistic Director) at james@pimlicomusicalfoundation.org.uk

Application:

Please send a CV and covering letter explaining why you are suited to the role, and what you think your early priorities might be if you were invited to take it up, to james@pimlicomusicalfoundation.org.uk by 12noon on Sunday 20^th February.

We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion in the cultural sector and therefore particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups. We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process if you inform us of any barriers you face during the application.