Working with BAC
BAC is an innovative and diverse organisation and has around 60 members of staff. A culture of development and support is fostered through a combination of line management, in-house coaching, and individual supporter and mentor schemes.
Workplace & Culture
BAC’s office is an open-plan shared space on the second floor of our building, Battersea old Town Hall, accessed by two sets of stairs or a lift. BAC is wheelchair accessible throughout. The nearest wheelchair accessible station is Clapham Junction and the route is 0.6 miles, uphill. There is a disabled parking bay on Theatre Street next to the building. There are accessible toilets and a mix of loud and quiet spaces.
BAC operates a Dynamic Working policy. This means we aim to create an environment that values experience and empowers colleagues to balance their professional and personal lives. It promotes inclusion and considers our whole team, creating a culture that respects the 7 days a week operational venue, with a range of skills, roles and requirements. The office is open every day from 9am and staff are on site at various times depending on their roles. Most meetings take place between 10am and 4pm and many of these will include an option to join online.
In general, those with admin focused roles work during the week and do a mix of days in the office and alternative locations. More operational roles are led by the programme of activity taking place in the building. Flexible working is welcome and agreed between the employee and line manager.
Perks & Benefits
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Complimentary tickets to shows
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24/7 Support through an EAP
Access to an EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) provided to all employees.
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Cycle to Work Scheme
Available to all employees
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Development Days
To spend on your professional development. 5 days provided, pro-rata.
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Discounts!
In the cafe and bar.
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Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave Policies
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Enhanced Annual Leave Provision
After your first year in post you will receive additional leave days
Our Commitment to Inclusivity
We particularly welcome applicants with lived experience of disability and people from groups that are currently under-represented in the arts sector. We can provide further information or support for your application, if you would like to iscuss this with us, contact us at recruitment@bac.org.uk.
How we use Equal Opportunity data
In your application we request that you answer a series of Equal Opportunity questions. The information you provide is not accessible by anyone outside of the BAC People Team and is used solely for monitoring our recruitment processes; it will not inform the selection process.
The only exception to this is to allow us to fulfil our promise as a Disability Confident Employer, where possible, offering an interview to all candidates meeting the minimum criteria who disclose a disability. Again, the data will remain confidential and only with the People Team
If you would rather not answer any or all the questions, you are welcome to select or write “prefer not to say”.
We ask these questions to help us measure how we are meeting our access and inclusion aims, as Battersea Arts Centre is committed to equality of opportunity for all job applicants and employees. The Equal Opportunities data from all our vacancies will be routinely pooled, anonymised, and then analysed, to measure our engagement with different demographics. We will then use this information to update and improve our outreach efforts in our processes.
Our Stance on AI
At BAC we understand that AI can be used as an access tool to aid with writing job applications. For those using AI programmes for their application, we ask that you make sure your answers reflect you and your work, and don’t simply mirror the job description or specification back to us.
About Battersea Arts Centre
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is a home for radical artistic ideas. We support artists, young people and communities to spark positive change through their creativity in many different ways, and this social purpose is central to everything we do. Based in an iconic building at the heart of Battersea, our work revolves around an ambitious live and digital programme of performance, heritage, events, and creative and community projects. Projects developed at BAC can also be found in our communities and on tour across the UK and the world.
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