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South East Dance
Chair and Trustee with Finance Expertise
Location: Brighton, UK
Salary: Unpaid – voluntary role. Reasonable expenses reimbursed
Deadline: 31 December 2025
South East Dance is looking for a new Chair and another Trustee with Finance Expertise to join our Board.

You will be joining us as we build on the work we have done since opening The Dance Space in 2022 as we enter the next phase of our development and continue to build a vibrant and varied programme of activities with and for artists and communities in The Dance Space and across the South East. Our vision is a world where everybody is inspired to enjoy, take part in and create bold, brave, pioneering dance. We are looking for a Chair and a Trustee who can help us make this vision a reality.

Trustees are vital in supporting South East Dance to achieve our charitable aims. You will help to make key strategic decisions; monitor our progress, impact, and contribution to Brighton & Hove and the South East region; and fulfil governance responsibilities.

In return, you will join a welcoming, committed and skilled team who champion our work locally and regionally, who share our passion for dance and the contribution it can make to health, wellbeing and placemaking, and you will help make a lasting difference to people’s lives.

If you feel you can contribute to our vision and the leadership of South East Dance, we would love to hear from you.

Please submit your application as soon as you are ready and we will get back to you with next steps.

How to Apply

You can make your application in any of the following formats:

  • Curriculum Vitae (CV) and letter of not more than two sides of A4
  • An audio recording of not more than eight minutes
  • A video recording of not more than eight minutes.
  • In British Sign Language.
If you would like to use a different format, then please let us know by emailing jobs@southeastdance.org.uk.

Whichever way you choose to make your application please tell us:

  • Why you are interested in the role
  • How you meet the Essential and Desirable criteria in the person specification, giving examples of your relevant skills and experience
  • Why you think you would do it well. This could be because you have done a similar job which has given you some direct relevant experience or experience you have gained in other ways which you feel would make you a good fit for the role
  • If you are from a background that is underrepresented in our workforce and wish to be guaranteed an interviewed if you meet the essential criteria for the role, then please say so in your letter of application.

South East Dance offers a Disability Confident Interview Scheme

Applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and meet the ‘minimum criteria’ for the role will be offered an interview. For each of our vacancies we separate the ‘essential’ criteria (critical to being successful in the role) from the ‘desirable’ criteria (enhances capacity to do the role well). To meet the ‘minimum criteria’ for the role and be offered an interview, disabled applicants applying under the Disability Confident Interview Scheme will need to show evidence in their application that they meet all the essential criteria highlighted in the role advert.

To opt in to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme please state that you have a disability and say that you wish to be interviewed under the scheme in your letter of application. By opting-in to this scheme, you will be disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the Scheme. We will not assume you would disclose or record your disability in any other way.

The Equality Act (2010) defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Please send your completed application to jobs@southeastdance.org.uk

We will acknowledge every application.

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