Call for proposals: Artistic training projects in Belgium

The opportunity is for a five-year mandate targeting professionals working in the following cultural and artistic fields:

• Artists, performers and creators, in the areas of audiovisual arts, visual arts, music, literature, performing arts, including theatre, dance, performance, storytelling, circus and street arts.
• Administrative, production and public relations managers working for structures handling performing arts.
• Technical and construction teams.

Responsibilities

On the artistic side, the successful applicants will be tasked with:

• Designing, implementing, coordinating, developing, monitoring and evaluating artistic and training projects, per the guidelines set out in the convention in place, the statutes and the association’s social objectives.
• Establish and supervise communication and promotion strategies for activities to increase their visibility and the development of cultural mediation.
• Developing professional, institutional networks, at regional and international levels.
• Exploring partnerships and external collaborations, at regional, national and international levels.

On the administrative side, the successful applicants will be tasked with:

• Organising and animating management bodies.
• Formulating relations with the subsidising authorities (including the management of grant applications or requests for support, in liaison with the team and members of the association).
• Elaborating and managing budgets.
• Managing human resources.
• Managing public relations and representation of the association.
• Drawing up activity and management reports.
• Controlling accounts.

Requirements

• A letter of motivation.
• A presentation of the professional history, including CVs of the candidates that will carry out the project.
• A general note of intent describing the activities to be carried out between 2021 and 2025 (max 5 000 characters).

The above materials should be sent to candidatures@cifas.be by 15 February 2021. 

The final selection will be made in April 2021 for commencement on 1 July 2021.

Selection process

The selection will take place in two rounds and will be steered by the CIFAS administration board, in collaboration with an independent reading committee. The committee will give special attention to projects that address new artistic challenges on the horizon in this period of health and climatic disruption.

Note: Applicants who wish to remain anonymous must expressly mention this in the letter accompanying the project.

For any further information on this call for tender, send an email to charlotte@cifas.be.

Original call attached below (PDF).