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Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum 

Contract Terms: Full time 

Location: Based either in Dalston, London or Scarborough, Yorkshire 

Invisible Dust is an award winning arts and environmental organisation that works with leading artists and scientists to produce unique and exciting works of contemporary art, exploring ideas about our environment and climate change for large audiences. 

We have attracted 910,000 to our projects and 3 million online through coverage in national and international press. The 2018 programme included ‘Under Her Eye’ a major international arts-science festival on women and climate change, headlined by Booker-prize winning author, Margaret Atwood and Christiana Figueres previous Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC who led the worldwide Paris Climate Change Agreement. 

Our scientist advisors are specialists in their fields in Universities across the UK. 

Previous artists we have worked with include Turner Prize winners Elizabeth Price on Space Science and Jeremy Deller on bat conservation. ‘Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea’ at Ferens Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum attracted 390,000 visitors with 23 artists including Mariele Neudecker, Tacita Dean, John Akomfrah, writer China Mieville and Martin Parr as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Currently Rodrigo Lebrun is opening in September at York Mediale and international projects in development include Canadian and New Zealand partners.

Invisible Dust is looking for a strategic thinker, who has proven fundraising experience to join the team in the role of Head of Development. 

In April 2018 Invisible Dust became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. The Head of Development is a new post and we would like you to draw from your fundraising, budgeting, business planning and strategic experience to shape the future direction of Invisible Dust. We are developing ambitious new national and international plans for our artistic programme. 

The Head of Development will work with us to realise this ambition. You will be successful at securing substantial (over £100K) funding for artistic projects, networking, partnership working and have ability to form new UK and international relationships to develop new partners and funding strategies and cement the growth of the organisation. 

To download the Recruitment Pack please visit www.invisibledust.com 

To apply please send us a covering letter demonstrating how your experience meets the aspects of the job description and person specification, your CV and a completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to reach us no later than 10am on Monday 1st October 2018. 

Both your CV and cover letter should be no longer than two pages of A4 each. The email address for applications or to make enquiries is: rosie@invisibledust.com. 

Please use the job title as the subject line of the email. The post will be based in either London or Scarborough. 

Both interview stages for shortlisted candidates will take place in London. 

First stage Monday 8th October and second stage Monday 15th October.