General Manager

About Artlink
Artlink connects contemporary art, ideas and people. Founded in 1981, Artlink is a themed magazine, with three print issues per year and online platforms that cover contemporary art and ideas from Australia and Asia-Pacific. Artlink provides one of few paid work opportunities for arts writers and editors. Championing excellence across the field, we commission, and mentor established and emerging writers, ensuring fair pay rates, and facilitate professional development, networking and collaboration.

Our work elevates the visual arts sector’s visibility. Quality art writing and criticism expands audiences, increases access, and facilitates critical engagement with key cultural ideas and developments of our time. Artlink’s work is topical, setting the agenda and generating dialogue through critical reviews, profiles and tributes, opinion pieces, provocations, features and special publishing projects. Our publishing is image rich, promoting the work of Australian artists at all career stages. Since 2010, Artlink has published an annual Indigenous issue, promoting the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, writers and editors. This issue has become a defining feature of Artlink’s offering and identity.

Based in Tarntanya / Adelaide, Artlink engages an informed readership nationwide and with growing international reach. This is made possible through our dedicated core team and established connections to a dynamic arts community; collaboration and consultation is built into our method. We foster diverse voices and multicultural, social and gender diversity, to showcase experimental, emerging, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural practices alongside critical perspectives on mainstream visual art events.

Artlink Australia is a non-profit company limited by guarantee and funded by state and federal agencies. We are a small team, with part-time, casual and off-site staff, however the General Manager will work from our office in the Adelaide Central School of Art in the Glenside Cultural Precinct, on the edge of the Adelaide CBD.

Position Description
Reporting to the Board, the General Manager (0.8FTE) is responsible for the day-to-day management of financial and administrative processes and systems and strategic leadership for the organisation. The General Manager works alongside the Editor to fulfill the objectives of the organisation and deliver a distinctive publication and creative program that maintains Artlink’s position as a leading critical platform in the visual art sector.

Key Responsibilities:
STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP
- Collaborates with the Board and Editor to shape the organisation’s long-term aspirations.
- Leads the development and implementation of the organisation’s Strategic Plan to fulfill the organisation’s purpose and ensure future financial stability and continuity.
- Translates purpose and strategy to core business outcomes through clear leadership and consultation with the Artlink team.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Ensures accurate and up to date financial statements and ensures the organisation is fully compliant with taxation and reporting obligations.
- Develop and implement annual operational and project budgets in line with organisational and funding strategies to deliver outcomes that are consistent with the organisation’s core business and sustainability goals
- Oversee the preparation and presentation of finances for audit purposes and liaise with the auditor and Business Support Manager / Bookkeeper to finalise the audited accounts for the
- Annual General Meeting and Annual Report.
- Oversee accounts management, including accounts payable, receivables and staff payroll.

GRANTS, REVENUE, FUNDRAISING
- Develop, implement and lead successful funding strategies to deliver the organisation’s strategic plan outcomes.

State Government of South Australia, Creative Australia and other funding bodies as required.
- Cultivate relationships with funding body stakeholders, sponsors, philanthropic organisations, patrons and donors.
- Identify opportunities for growing revenue and with the Board, initiate and review strategic fundraising initiatives and partnerships that will advance the position of the organisation.

PUBLICATION AND PROGRAM
- Support the Editorial Team to efficiently develop and advance the Artlink publishing product, brand and associated public programs.
- Identify opportunities to extend the reach of Artlink, its stakeholders and the visual arts sector.
- With the Editor, ensure production is timely and design, print, distribution and retail opportunities are competitive.

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
- Implement, manage and review marketing strategies and campaigns with Artlink team.
- Oversee website structure and functionality, engage and work with web designers and the

Artlink team to ensure the website is current and reflective of our brand.
- Travel to interstate and overseas events as required (funding dependent).

PEOPLE