Position Purpose

To drive the successful delivery of Melbourne Fringe's year-round cultural enterprise, Fringe Common Rooms, as well as the food and beverage offer for the Melbourne Fringe Festival and other Festival partners.

Role Summary

The Venue Manager will lead the Fringe Common Rooms team to ensure a commercially viable venue utilisation program encompassing commercial, community and cultural events. You lead a team that drives profitability and delivers exceptional service to venue hirers, artists, stakeholders and audiences at Trades Hall.

You are the person who ensures the ambitious commercial initiatives of Melbourne Fringe's year-round venue activity are enabled with entrepreneurial flair and with a commitment to the organisation's core values. Your responsibilities include the management and operations of bar functions in Common Rooms and foyer bars in Trades Hall for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and other pop-up bar events at Trades Hall and off-site.

About Melbourne Fringe

Melbourne Fringe democratises the arts. Our vision is cultural democracy – empowering anyone to realise their right to creative expression. We support the development and presentation of artworks by, with and for Melbourne’s people, running the annual Melbourne Fringe Festival, the year-round venue Fringe Common Rooms at Trades Hall, and a range of arts sector leadership programs. We believe that access to the arts and creative expression are fundamental rights of our citizenship and vital to a creative, healthy, cohesive society.

Our Work Culture

Melbourne Fringe is a forward-thinking, creative and inclusive organisation. Our dreaming is out of the box, our work ethic is strong, and we don’t let limited resources stop us from making the seemingly impossible happen. We believe that great work is made by people who enjoy what they do. We are proud to have a diverse workplace that celebrates difference and encourages people to bring their whole selves to work with pride.

Fringe is a values-driven workplace characterised by big-picture thinking, optimism and playfulness. We have a reputation as a hard-working, caring, energetic, fast-paced workplace that values our people and their health and which brings them together socially for lunch, events and fun times.

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Melbourne Fringe

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