We are seeking a Creative Producer to shape and support the delivery of UAL’s 2026 Earth Week programme.
Earth Week marks a moment in the UAL calendar where we showcase the power of creativity in response to climate and ecological crises. We do this by coming together, sharing, learning, debating, and accelerating, and making climate action a visible exchange across our university. In the past, we have hosted assemblies, public parades, performances, parties, reaching an audience of over 5000 through networked, collaborative and inclusive public programming.
As the Creative Producer of Earth Week, you will play a critical role in the delivery of our fifth year of celebration. Your role will be to curate and co-deliver a carefully planned series of student, staff, and partner-led events, workshops and displays during the week.
The person in this role will be a creative thinker and do-er, with experience of bringing together complex and high-profile programmes of impact-driven events and displays. You will have an understanding of and experience in art and design education, particularly education and contemporary debates centred around sustainability and climate justice. They will also be able to demonstrate excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills, as well as experience of working with students.
You will deliver four, parallel workstreams:
- Core, headline series of evening in-conversation events (‘Lates’).
- Core workshop series bringing together staff and students to share environmental innovation and impact at each College.
- A managed, supporting series of staff and student-led events, workshops, and performances selected through an open-call process.
- A small number of displays or installations.
You will help coordinate - and receive support from – a wider team around you:
- Climate Emergency Network – who will shape the thematic focus of the Week and have a curatorial role in the events programme.
- People and Culture team – who will play a curatorial role and provide administrative support for contracting and payments.
- Strategic Events and Showcasing Team – who will manage the practical delivery of the headline events.
- College Events Team – who will support the practical delivery of events in-College.
- Communications team – who will support with outreach and engagement.
- Net Zero and Sustainability Team – who will provide some content for the Week.
This is a three-month contract. To make the job manageable, before you start the team above will have decided the theme for the week, secured venues for the core and supporting events, approached key speakers, and launched the open-call.
Key milestones are as follows:
- Mid-January – open call for events launches
- 26 January – Cultural programmer starts
- Mid-February – open call closes
- Mid-March – programme confirmed and published
- 20-24 April – Delivery of Earth Week
Key duties and responsibilities
- Curation and creative leadership, – Develop and execute an overall creative vision for the Week, making curatorial choices and creative production decisions.
- Programme management – Manage the overall Earth Week programme, including maintaining project plans, delivery timelines, and budgets. Engaging with stakeholders on logistical and practical matters related to the programme.
- Stakeholder management – Collaborate with diverse stakeholders across UAL including staff, students and external partners to create and deliver the programme.
- Community engagement – Support the open call process for the Week, encouraging staff and students to be part of the programme and helping bring their vision to life.
- Student partnerships – To work directly with students to help them refine their event proposals and develop their skills through taking part in Earth Week.
- Speaker and external partner outreach and management – Secure and liaise with small number of high-profile external speakers and organisational partners for the week.
- Event spatial design and dressing – Create exciting, rich physical spaces for the event to be held in.
- Communication and outreach – In collaboration with the Communications team, help market the events, ensuring high participation rates.
- Contractor management – Manage temporary staff such as photographers, videographers, and stewards.
- Budget responsibility - To monitor resources and budgets in conjunction with the Head of Net Zero, maintaining accurate records of expenditure by project, ensuring the project is kept within budget.
- Evaluation and feedback – Support evaluation activities, gathering feedback from staff and students, collating responses.
- General duties – Undertake other duties consistent with the scope and grade of the role, contributing to effective governance, equality and inclusion, and UAL’s Social Purpose Strategy.