June 23, 2026

We’re Hiring: Production Manager

Application Deadline: July 19, 5PM
Role start date: September 1, 2026

We’re looking for a Production Manager to join the team from September 1 onwards for 24 hours a week. As the head of the production department, the Production Manager is responsible for the logistical and practical realisation of the exhibition and public program. This includes technical tasks, managing staff, running exhibition-specific production budgets and working with artists and external contractors to ascertain the practical needs of each project in conversation with the director and/or curator. The producer is therefore a key conversation partner for the director in establishing the feasibility of projects and ideas presented by artists and is in turn a key contact person for artists involved in the program.

To realise the program, the producer brings together and manages a small team in the form of installation technicians and project-specific professionals (such as electricians or welders) for each major project. The producer is therefore responsible for running deinstall and install, which includes not only managing the team of project-specific personnel, core staff and volunteers during that period, but also managing the relevant administrative tasks, such as establishing, communicating and overseeing timelines, condition reporting artworks, organising loan and artist agreements and artwork shipping. Once each exhibition or project is open, the producer is responsible for maintaining its appearance by identifying and tending to any technical issues or damages that may arise throughout the course of the exhibition.

In a more daily sense, where exhibitions aren’t concerned, the producer also tends to certain housekeeping needs of the organisation, such as replacing lightbulbs and monitoring leaks, maintaining the tech and tool storages and setting up for events. In tandem with the director and the education curator, they are also a core team member and sometimes participate in developmental planning meetings, such as around the yearly program schedule or when formulating new threads in the program, like the artistic residency. Twice yearly, the producer also works with the director in mentoring individuals through both production and curatorial internships.

Requirements
We are looking for someone who:

• Has demonstrable understanding that production work is not always creative, and that it requires the navigation of logistics, timelines and sometimes menial tasks in combination with communicating with artists about conceptual ideas from their development to realisation.
• Has experience running or being part of a (small) team.
• Is fluent in English, with fluency in Dutch being a bonus.
• Is able to work flexibly, in line with the fact that production work has different ebbs and flows of intensity (for instance, during install the role might require four days a week while the week immediately following may be quiet to make up for the busy period).
• Has some experience with the shipping and freight of artworks.
• Has experience with basic construction tasks and comfortability handling basic power tools, like a drill or drop saw.
• Has more-than-basic experience with AV technology, such as installing projectors, speakers and handling digital files.
• Is comfortable taking initiative and instigating workflows.
• Enjoys centring the wishes of artists and who is committed to thinking through what might at first seem like difficult ideas to realise, an excitement for which is also reflected in their communication style.
• Has a strong sense of responsibility and great communication skills, which support to maintain a consistency across the various intensities of the production timeline and in light of the fact that we are a completely part-time team with our own differing schedules (supporting each other to keep ‘work talk’ to a minimum outside of working hours is key).
• Has a belief in contemporary art and a proven practice of supporting the ideas of artists as a way of being political in the world.
• Has belief in the importance of small-scale organisations, an awareness of the often unseen emotional labour inherent to keeping their doors open and an understanding that realising projects together is truly a team effort. I.e. At A Tale of A Tub, no one is above doing the dishes, cleaning a toilet or stocking a fridge here and there.

Remuneration and Hours
We offer a fee according to the De Zaak Nu criteria set out in the ‘Richtlijn Functie- en Loongebouw’, commensurate with experience and in a freelance capacity. The role is remunerated at 24 hours per week (equating to three days on average). As mentioned, the role requires some flexibility, particularly in the case of evening events and around deinstallation and installation periods, which occur three times a year, run for two to three weeks and during which the Production Manager is often expected to be on site for 4 days.

Application Process
To apply, please send a one-page cover letter and a CV combined as a single PDF by July 19, 5PM, to info@a-tub.org with the subject line ‘Production Manager’. Application materials can be written in Dutch or English. In the cover letter, we would love to hear about your previous experience in the field of production and why you feel you would be a good fit for A Tale of A Tub and the kinds of projects we realise. Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed in the week of July 27. The preferred start date is September 1. We look forward to reading your applications!

About A Tale of A Tub
A Tale of A Tub is a non-profit institution for contemporary art and culture located in the former washhouse and bathhouse of the Justus van Effencomplex in Spangen, Rotterdam. As the only contemporary art space in Spangen and inspired by the historical, communal and residential functions of our location, A Tale of A Tub works with artists, curators, writers and practitioners from various fields of research to develop context-responsive projects that are intersectional in nature and often based on dialogue with the neighbourhood. As such, the program draws on the social impulse of the site, developing exhibitions, events, education initiatives and publishing projects to bring a range of people, places and (urgent) ideas into conversation through art.