The Head of Finance and Operations operates as part of the Senior Management team and is the finance, operational, and business lead in line with our strategy and vision and is responsible for the line management of the Operations team.

Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre's Head of Finance and Operations is a pivotal leadership role at an exciting moment in our journey. As we look ahead to celebrating our 40th birthday in 2027, and build on the momentum of recent funding successes, this is a unique opportunity to help shape the next chapter of a bold, impactful, youth lead organisation based in the northeast of Glasgow.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will lead on finance, HR, compliance, and organisational systems, ensuring strong, sustainable foundations that enable our creative work to thrive. From managing budgets, audits, and producing management accounts to overseeing IT systems and line managing a staff team, this is a varied and influential role at the heart of the organisation.

We’re looking for a strategic, highly organised leader who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment. You’ll be collaborative, solution focused and motivated by making a meaningful difference in the lives of young people. If you’re ready to play a central role in a dynamic organisation with ambitious plans, we’d love to hear from you!

About Us

Art27 Scotland is Scotland’s leading organisation promoting cultural rights through practice and policy. We are an artist-led, community-driven organization promoting arts and culture for the common good. Our mission and methodology are rooted in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that “everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

We explore culture as an essential human right. We curate and produce a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, and events that respond to the urgent global shifts of our time. Through artistic commissions, socially engaged community projects, and cultural democracy facilitation, we work to make cultural rights a tangible reality.

The Role

This is a senior management position that will require a creative mindset with practical ability to deliver. We are seeking a collaborative, community-minded Company Producer to join our team. In this role, you will manage the end-to-end delivery of our multi-arts programs outlined in our annual plan and contribute to the development of funding streams and partnerships for future projects. Art27 Scotland is a small team of Embedded Artist, General Manager and Culture Collective Co-ordinator. During project delivery the team expands and contracts significantly during these peak periods throughout the year.

You will report to the Board on a regular basis to discuss the programme and budgets and address any challenges arising.

You will have a line management and support role for key staff ensuring regular 1-1s and clear communication across the organisation.

You will be the key liaison for projects and partnerships, bridging the gap between artistic ideas, partners, funding and project logistics. You will ensure our co-creation processes are safe, ethical, and highly accessible.

This is a role for a creatively minded producer who values the human process of making art just as much as essential high production values of the final presentation.

The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive has grown out of Scotland’s first LGBTQ+ bookshops, Lavender Menace and West & Wilde. Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen, the owners of the original Lavender Menace Bookshop founded the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in 2019 to keep this valuable LGBTQ+ book heritage alive and share it with the community.

We have a mission to bring together the queer community in Edinburgh and beyond; celebrate LGBTQ+ authors and their works; and collect and preserve LGBTQ+ books (focusing on those published between 1970 and 2000). We work to create and maintain a free and welcoming community archive space for reading, research, and socialising. The archive is open to visitors and hosts a variety of author events, workshops, community groups and book clubs. We also have a digital catalogue of our collection.

To support the next stage of our growth, we are seeking a General Manager to build the sustainability of the Archive and ensure effective delivery of our programmes. Working closely with the Board, this exciting new role will lead organisational development, fundraising, financial administration, governance, and long-term planning, while managing and leading the work of a high performing staff team. Specifically, the postholder will provide high-level oversight of collections policy, ethics, and risk, ensuring the archive remains accessible, cared for, and responsive to community needs; whilst also leading the team to effectively deliver our new project “Unlocking Scotland’s LGBTQ+ Heritage”, which is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we will be able to expand the reach of the Archive, and better connect communities to their heritage.

This role would suit a proven leader with professional experience in archives, libraries, museums, or heritage collections, who has a strong degree of LGBTQ+ cultural competence and who is able to operate with autonomy in a collaborative and supportive way. It presents a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership and project delivery skills, and contribute to the long term sustainability of a vital community resource in Scotland.

The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive has grown out of Scotland’s first LGBTQ+ bookshops, Lavender Menace and West & Wilde. Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen, the owners of the original Lavender Menace Bookshop founded the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in 2019 to keep this valuable LGBTQ+ book heritage alive and share it with the community.

We have a mission to bring together the queer community in Edinburgh and beyond; celebrate LGBTQ+ authors and their works; and collect and preserve LGBTQ+ books (focusing on those published between 1970 and 2000). We work to create and maintain a free and welcoming community archive space for reading, research, and socialising. The archive is open to visitors and hosts a variety of author events, workshops, community groups and book clubs. We also have a digital catalogue of our collection.

To support the next stage of our growth, we are seeking aResearch Coordinatortolead the development and delivery of community-led research into Scotland’s LGBTQ+ heritage, with responsibility for the Connecting Heritage strand of the project. The post holder will take forward a variety of work including research design, outputs and partnerships, supporting a team of volunteer researchers and producing accessible public facing outputs. Working collaboratively with the wider team, the postholder will ensure that the research is inclusive, ethical and embedded within community practice.

This role would suit an individual witha strong background in community based research, a strong degree of LGBTQ+ cultural competence and able to operate with autonomy in a collaborative and supportive way. It presents a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership and project delivery skills, and contribute to theimpact and sustainability of thisvital community resource in Scotland.