POSITION: Artist & Venues Coordinator (Seasonal)
LOCATION: Adelaide Fringe Head Office and FringeWORKS in season location
REPORTS TO: Artist & Venue Manager
EMPLOYMENT: Full time (Seasonal)
VERSION:June 2026
POSITION SUMMARY
The Artist and Venue Coordinator is in the Artist & Venue team liaising with and providing support to Adelaide Fringe registered Artists and Venues in the lead up and during festival. This role includes facilitating artist and venue registrations, supporting participation, leading administration and programming of the Professional Development series, delivering the Artist and Venue events program and coordinating the FringeWORKS office move and schedule. The events include networking opportunities for participants in Meet the Community and Meet the Media and creating a schedule of events to be held during festival in collaboration with Marketplace team. This role will be responsible for the FringeWORKS daily program that hosts Professional Development Workshops and Community building events throughout festival, delivering the FringeWORKS set up overseeing office logistics alongside venue management for staff and artists to reside in throughout the festival. Nurturing development and understanding of participation, navigating digital our platforms (AVR & red61), Along with a host of other programs and opportunities to strengthen the Adelaide Fringe experience for artists and venues participating in Adelaide Fringe 2027.
ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIP
Department: Programs and Development
Supervises: Nil
Internal Liaisons:Artist & Venue team, Executive Director – Programs
and Development, Ticketing, Digital, Marketing and Operations Staff
External Liaisons: Adelaide Fringe registered artists and venues, venue operators, judges,
partners, council representatives, arts industry and local business
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Area of Responsibility
- Liaise and support artists, presenters and venues to participate in the Adelaide Fringe.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the online artists’ venues registration platform (AVR), including development delivery, acceptance testing, training and support and review.
- Locate and encourage available venues suitable for Adelaide Fringe performances, installations and exhibitions, and in doing so, establish and cultivate ongoing stakeholder relationships with venue operators, managers and owners.
- Strong understanding of creative sector, bringing depth of knowledge to help deliver informative resources and engaging Professional Development opportunities to our active artist and venues.
- Support the Artist & Venue team to produce a range of artist and venue resources both printed and digital, including but not limited to AVR resources, Artist & Venue Magazines, FringeWORKS Artist Guide, FringeWORKS Facebook page and external public communications.
- Support the preparation the Adelaide Fringe Guide (print publication) including, preparing raw data, editing and proofing in conjunction with Marketing and Partnerships teams.
- Ensure that the Artist and Venue Registration platform (AVR) and event details are up-to date at all times and proof event listings on the www.adelaidefringe.com.au
- Coordinating team with leading all Artist and Venue events, working collaboratively with operations team to provide event delivery is smooth. Events including the Meet the Community, Meet the Media, Info Sessions, FringeWORKS Daily program and office roll out.
- Liaising with the Digital, ticketing & Marketing departments to develop ideas and adequate support for artists and venues throughout the year.
- Developing the participant Professional Development Series and FringeWORKS schedule of Daytime programming for throughout festival and the logistical roll out of the events.
- Bringing a level of maturity, initiative and strategy to evaluate projects, processes and procedures for future planning.
- Provide support to entire Artist & Venue team to complete general Artist & Venue related tasks and projects.
- Support the Artist & Venue Manager and the Ticketing and Digital department to compile detailed statistics on artist and venue participation at the completion of each Adelaide Fringe.
- Support the progression of Diversity and Accessibility within the festival in association with the organisations Access Action Plan.
- Embrace online organisation project management software.
- Act as an ambassador for the organisational culture and values ensuring they are upheld and embedded.
- Observe and follow all Work Health and Safety regulations and safe working practices.
- Undertake projects and activities as directed by the Head of Program Operations.
Whilst this position description summarises the purpose of the job and lists its key tasks, it is not a definitive list of all the tasks to be undertaken. Tasks can vary from time to time at the discretion of your manager.
