acta is seeking a Finance and Operations Manager to join a highly-regarded company respected for innovative work and a successful track record in community theatre.
Job Overview
We are seeking a friendly and approachable Finance and Operations Manager to join our team in 2025. The ideal candidate will be highly organised and able to work under their own initiative, have excellent people management skills, and a strong commitment to our organisation values.
The role is offered part time at 4 days per week. We understand some candidates may prefer to focus on either just finance or operations – in which case we also welcome applications interested in a role as either a part-time Finance Manager (two days per week), or a part-time Operations Manager (two days per week).
Full information is available in the job pack, as below.
Download the job pack as a PDFContract terms & conditions
Part time, based at the actacentre in Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 3AY.
Salary: £35,500-£38,000 pa (depending on experience) pro rata (4 days per week)
Main working hours will be within Monday to Friday 9 – 5 with some evening and weekend work required; flexible working policy (includes TOIL and occasional home-working).
Probationary period of 3 months.
30 days annual leave per annum
NEST pension scheme
How to apply
To make an application, please write and submit two separate documents as follows:
1) Contact sheet – name, address, telephone and e-mail contact
2) Application in 4 sections:
a) Education & training
b) Work history
c) Referees – contact details for x 2 people who acta can ask for a reference; (we will only take up references upon appointment.)
d) Person specification – an application that explains why you are the best candidate for this role, and how you meet each of the criteria listed in the person specification.
We’re open to receiving this in various formats – we know that written communication isn’t for everyone. You could:
• write it as a letter or email
• record a short video or audio file
• create a portfolio of your skills and experiences
• anything else you can think of!
Please send both files together, as attachments to an email, with the subject line of your email: “Finance and Operations Manager” application,” and send to:
oliver@acta-bristol.com
It is entirely voluntary, but we would also appreciate it if you could include a completed Equality and diversity monitoring form.
Before the closing date of Sunday 8th December 2024 (midnight deadline).
Please note that all shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview by Friday 13th December 2024, and interviews are expected to take place at the acta centre on Tue 7th and Wednesday 8th January 2024.
We are committed to ensuring that the interview process is accessible to all shortlisted candidates. (Further details on the interview process will be made available at the shortlisting stage, but please do contact us at any point if there is anything we need to do to ensure the recruitment process is accessible to you.)
We will be recruiting in accordance with our equality and diversity recruitment procedures, so will be making opportunities available to all applicants on a fair basis. However, we are keen to recruit employees who are representative of the diverse cultural backgrounds of our participants, and encourage applications from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse and / or disabled people, who are under-represented in the existing staff team, for this significant new post.
We believe that the information included on this website, together with the acta job pack, should be sufficient for applicants to make their written applications.
However, if you do have a particular unanswered question at this stage of the process, please email oliver@acta-bristol.com
