Finance Director

  • CONTRACT: Permanent
  • HOURS: 0.80 FTE: 32 hours per week, with some evening and weekend working
  • SALARY: £40,000-£44,000 (based on 1.0FTE £50,000 – £55,000)
  • LOCATION: Dance City, Temple Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BR
  • ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Post holder reports to the CEO
  • INTERVIEW DATE: 26 June

This is an exciting time to join Dance City, as we celebrate our 40th anniversary and look to the future. We’re looking for a Finance Director who can help us to fulfil the vision, mission and charitable objectives of Dance City by:

  • delivering high quality financial management
  • ensuring robust financial data and systems
  • supporting the wider Dance City team.

You will be a key point of managerial and operational contact for colleagues and Board of Trustees, as well as external partners and customers. Your work is central to the organisation’s success.

Our mission is to ensure the North East is the best place to dance and experience dance. You’ll work in an organisation where you can see the difference you make every day.

If this sounds like you, we look forward to hearing from you.

How to apply:

Please send a CV and cover letter to Anand Bhatt, CEO and Artistic Director: anand.bhatt@dancecity.co.uk, by 12 noon on Thursday 19 June 2025.

In your cover letter, please demonstrate how you meet the person specification. The full job description and person specification can be found in the job pack, which is available to download below.

Interviews will be held at Dance City on 26 June.

If you require this information in a different format, or would rather submit a video or audio file, please let Anand Bhatt, CEO and Artistic Director, know and we can enable this to happen.

Dance City actively encourages applications from those with less visibility in the arts. We specifically welcome applications from women, disabled people and those from Black, Asian, ethnically diverse, LGBTQ+ and international backgrounds with the right to work in the UK.

Download: Finance Director Application Pack (PDF)