12 Month Freelance contract,2 days per month starting February 2025
Fee:  £250 a day plus up to £600 a year for travel and accommodation.

Thanks to funding from the Arts Council of Wales, Creu Cymru are looking to recruit a freelance Wales Theatre Green Book Champion.

The Wales Theatre Green Book Champion will be a passionate and knowledgeable supporter of sustainable theatre practice and will have the ability to create a vision and sustainable future for Theatre Green Book, increasing engagement and uptake and supporting networks of users across Wales.

Working with the Creu Cymru Board, Membership and the Director, the Wales Theatre Green Book Champion will play a pivotal role in promoting the TGB and sharing the learning by acting as a visible, proactive advocate for sustainability in the Welsh cultural sector. Their involvement will help increase awareness, engagement, and adoption of the Theatre Green Book (TGB) principles across theatres and producing companies.

The Champion will act as a spokesperson, bridging the gap between the project team and the cultural sector, ensuring that the TGB’s principles are understood, respected, and trusted by participants. They will also work with Theatre Green Book UK team, attending meetings and events as required to support knowledge exchange and alignment with wider Theatre Green Book activities across the UK and internationally.

The Theatre Green Book is a sector-wide initiative to support theatres and theatre practitioners to make every aspect of their work more environmentally sustainable, across productions, buildings and operations.  It is both an online resource and a network of theatre practitioners across all roles who are committed to developing best practice in environmentally sustainable theatre and promoting the use of the Theatre Green Book more widely.

ABOUT CREU CYMRU

Creu Cymru champions Wales’ vibrant sector of performing arts; connecting people, audiences and communities.

Our membership forms a collaborative network; with a strengthened and unified voice that we project and advocate on behalf of to public governing bodies, ensuring vital industry representation and influencing positive change.

Creu Cymru supports venues, companies and individuals in progressive growth strategies. Our Go&See opportunities, specialist training and toolkit resources develop the collective skills and experience of our creative workforces. This ensures that programming across the sector continues to evolve with a focus on equality, relevance and inclusion for new and diverse audiences.

We encourage applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people (we are a trans-inclusive organisation), Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, and people who have experienced other exclusion or marginalisation.

Creu Cymru does not have a permanent office base. The main place of work will be your home address with time also spent working at member venues and offices.

To apply, please download the job description and person specification below.
Application deadline: Monday 20th January
Interviews will take place: Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th January

We are looking for someone to start from February onwards.