Finance and Operations Director

Job Description

Finance and Operations Director About The Big HouseThe Big House has a simple mission: to enable care leavers and other marginalised young people to fulfil their potential. Through our programmes we use drama participation, life and employment skills,counselling and wrap-around long-term support to develop emotional well-being and enable marginalised young people to build positive adult lives and live independently. Our main activities are: weekly drop-in drama workshops and the Open House Project; anintensive 12-week programme of drama and life and employment skills development which culminates in a full-scale theatre production. Each young person who takes part in the Open House Project is offered support from a psychotherapist and has the opportunityto be matched with a personal mentor.In addition, we deliver drama-based workshops that develop personal skills as well as leadership training (with a focus on empathy in the workplace) and offer bespoke performances to the business and social care sectorvia The Big House Means Business. Since its launch in 2016, The Big House Means Business has delivered workshops and performances to organisations such as Barclays, Comic Relief, State Street and Frontline (social worker training) employing young people whohave participated in our Open House Projects to assist in the development and facilitation of the workshops.Reputation"Care leavers have a stigma, but here there are so many people who want to do good and do well in life, but [before coming to The Big House]they just didnt have the connections and support system. Ive seen amazing changes in people." C, aged 21 "If Dickens were around now, he would surely be writing for The Big House, set up by the extraordinary Maggie Norris, who puts on plays with casts ofsocially excluded care leavers. The Ballad of Corona V, staged five times a night for a promenading audience who move in groups of six, is a ferocious take on the pandemic, written by David Watson. It features a cowboy virus, a bumbling PM, music by Jammz,a fizzing young cast and accomplished professional performances from Jermaine Freeman (a Big House graduate) and Eleanor Wyld. Norris has made wonderful use of the space, a former frame factory: there is a through-the-wardrobe feeling as you go into the yardoff an Islington street - and, indeed, you are entering another chamber of the heart." Susannah Clapp - The Observer on The Ballad of Corona V:"(Bullet Tongue) is a great night out, and sometimes a shocking one too ... a brilliantly spikey piece of promenadetheatre created by The Big House, a charity working with care-leavers and young people at risk, gives it straight to us from the horses mouth." Lyn Gardner- Theatre Critic "Visceral storytelling. Shot through with moments of pure theatre, graced with vivid,moving performances by an excellent young cast." Jez Butterworth - Playwright "Im convinced The Big House is plugged into the community in a way that other charities are not. A genuine life transformer, helping the lost to locate a path and stick to it."Sir Lenny Henry CBEThe RoleWe are seeking a Finance and Operations Director to ensure The Big House is as dynamic, responsive and efficient as it can be in its day to day operations and in the strategic planning of the next exciting phase of development. Thesuccessful candidate will be inspired by the work of The Big House and will relish the opportunity to play a vital part in the lives of at-risk young people. This role will suit an experienced finance and operations professional looking to become an indispensablemember of a small core team within a growing organisation.Please read the full Job Description below.How To Apply: Please submit your most recent CV and Cover Letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) which outlines your relevant experience ensuring this is in linewith the job description/ person specification and why you are motivated to work with The Big House. Incomplete applications will not be processed.Send all applications to Stacie Novotny Bond by email via the button below.Please make the subject line or markthe envelope with - Finance and Operations Director ApplicationClosing date for applications: 10am Friday 7th January 2022. First round interviews will take place w/c 17th January 2022.Start date: As soon as possible.The Big House is an equal opportunity employer.We welcome applications from all groups, especially those underrepresented in the arts, and actively encourage those from diverse backgrounds to apply.