Enrichment Program Manager

LOCATION: Griffith, Canberra, with option to work from home.

**Perform Australia, one of Australia’s leading drama schools, is seeking a talented, management-oriented individual with an understanding of theatre and screen, to lead our Enrichment Programs into the future.**

Our enrichment programs take place largely in Canberra and Brisbane and include:

- After-school acting programs
- Musical theatre production programs for children
- Short courses and workshops for adults
- Private tuition in singing and acting
- Corporate training programs

Your role is to work alongside the CEO and Operations Manager to ensure the delivery of quality leisure programs and to ensure good student retention throughout the year.

You need to:

- Know a good script from a bad one
- Know what children need in a drama program to have a wonderful time
- Know what adults are looking for in a creative course experience
- Know about acting technique
- Know how a theatre show is put together, and be able to judge what needs to be done to advise staff to improve a production.

You must also have strengths in:

- Problem solving
- Planning, coordinating and delegating
- Strategic thinking
- Mentoring staff
- Innovating.

Apart from training staff, this is not a job where you have to teach or direct on a regular basis, unless you want to take on a project or teaching hours - though you may be required to step in as a substitute teacher from time to time. Nevertheless, you’ll be empowering others to do this work, while lending your artistic eye where it’s needed. In this job, you need to wear a producer’s hat and make things happen.

Moreover, we’re an acting school - so we take that lens to everything we do. We are not a dance school. We are not a music school. To fit in with our approach to the work, you need to understand and grab this premise, and run with it.

The role’s three intentions are:
**INTENTION 1: ENCHANTING EXPERIENCES**

Developing programs which bring joy to children and adults through participation in performing arts - so that they learn new skills and want to stay on for years. You will therefore:

- Devise new workshop programs for adults in acting, musical theatre, and related fields, and recruit skilled trainers
- Work with our curriculum writer to develop a year-round actor training program for children across different age groups
- Source and/or commission scripts for performance in children’s programs
- Oversee children’s musical theatre programs and work with the production manager to ensure beautiful productions take place
- Manage our annual ‘Performathon’ festival of plays
- Liaise with filmmakers when producing screen content in classes.

**INTENTION 2: LOGISTICAL MAGNIFICENCE**

Inventing and managing systems to ensure the smooth running of enrichment programs from top to bottom. You will:

- Work with admin staff to ensure secure locations for activities, whether hired or in our own studios
- Manage child safety requirements to ensure Perform Australia is a child-safe organisation across the three states in which it exists
- Develop processes for managing staff training, absences, and recruitment
- Update training manuals and procedures for staff as needed
- Work with admin on the smooth delivery of the customer experience.
- Solve problems with customers

**INTENTION 3: ENCOURAGING ARTISTS**

Recruiting, training and managing a staff of teaching artists, to ensure they are well-suited and well-equipped to do what they’re tasked to do. You will:

- Oversee recruitment, onboarding and induction of new staff across leisure programs
- Monitor wellbeing of staff
- Identify staff training and professional development needs
- Conduct performance reviews and classroom reviews
- Assist staff with behavioural management issues in classes

**HOURS**
This position is 25 hours per week and is available at our studio in Griffith or as a work-from-home role. Attendance at productions and events is required.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: $67,600.00 per year

Expected hours: 25 per week

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Griffith ACT

Application Deadline: 08/05/2025