Experience

Manchester Jazz Festival

• United Kingdom
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Producer

  • May 2019 - Present

  Manchester, England, United Kingdom • Producing the 25th anniversary festival and working alongside the Artistic and Comms directors. • Building enduring venue and creative partnerships and developing a viable and sustainable festival model • Managing production elements of mjf and sourcing and managing suppliers and contractors. • Income generation via commercial, sponsorship and funding sources. • Creating and working to budgets and assessing financial risk of projects.



Manchester City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Events Manager

  • Nov 2006 - May 2019

  • Instrumental to the strategic development, management and evaluation of Manchester’s event programme. • Planning, delivering and managing high quality, large scale, multi partner events such as Manchester Day (60,000 attendance), Skyride (15,000 participants), Festival of Manchester • Developing creative programmes alongside creative /event partners (Walk the Plank, Manchester Mela etc) • Supporting professional and community event organisers to achieve the Council’s strategic… Show more • Instrumental to the strategic development, management and evaluation of Manchester’s event programme. • Planning, delivering and managing high quality, large scale, multi partner events such as Manchester Day (60,000 attendance), Skyride (15,000 participants), Festival of Manchester • Developing creative programmes alongside creative /event partners (Walk the Plank, Manchester Mela etc) • Supporting professional and community event organisers to achieve the Council’s strategic aims • Managing health and safety at events and chair of Safety Advisory Group. • Project budget management up to £400,000 per project • Line management and project team management • Fundraising via public bodies, sponsorship and maximising earned income. Show less