Role: Executive Director

Salary: £40,000 based on full time (40) hours per week  but part time – reducing to a min of 32 hours/4 days will be considered

Location: at the company HQ in Kings Heath, Birmingham 

Style of working: Office based with significant ability to home work, as an estimate 40% of an average week  

Family Friendly and other benefits:  Access to Company wellbeing package and family friendly policies

Probation: 5 months 

Women & Theatre produces exciting, innovative, and compassionate theatre, and delivers participatory projects about contemporary issues, reflecting the language and lives of ordinary people. Working across arts, health and community sectors, Women & Theatre create work responding to local and national issues; all through the lens of women and the communities of Birmingham and the West Midlands, focusing on what matters to people day-to-day. 

With a strong ethos of delivering impactful work, extensive experience and close networks of partners and associate artists, Women & Theatre is one of Birmingham’s most respected theatre companies.

Now in the 4th year as a Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (23-28) the focus is shifting to reapplication, so we are focused on demonstrating alignment with the current strategic framework and a commitment to achieving excellence. 

Women & Theatre seeks to appoint a new Executive Director with responsibility for Finance, Operations and organisational sustainability.  The Executive Director is joint Chief Executive with the Artistic Director and together they lead the Company. 

We want to appoint an individual that will embrace Women & Theatre’s inclusive values, lead with empathy, build strong relationships and ensure positive working cultures that enable teams to thrive. 

Interested? Download the application pack here.

Deadline for Expressions of interest: 9am Monday 5th October 2026

First Interviews: w/b 12th October

Potential Second Stage: w/b 19th October

Women & Theatre welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in increasing the diversity of our team and welcome applications from people of Global Majority backgrounds and disabled people who are currently under-represented in our core team.

We are Disability Confident and guarantee an interview to those applicants who disclose a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria (please be explicit in your EOI if you wish for us to treat your application in this way as the Equality and Diversity questionnaire we also ask you to complete is anonymous and purely for monitoring purposes).