Work with Us
....as a Solar Associate
We're connected to a network of talented Associates, each highly skilled in a range of areas that enhance the work of the creative sector and the amazing work it can produce. We work with our Associates on a one-off and on an ongoing basis and do our best to make their experience a really positive one (they are our best advocates, after all!).
If you're like to talk to us about becoming a Solar Associate, please bear in mind we'd expect you to demonstrate impressive and relevant professional experience and insight, as well as a connection with our values as a company. Submitting a CV/profile for yourself, and a couple of endorsements from employers and colleagues who rate you, is also important to us. If there's a match at our end, we would invite you over for a friendly exploratory chat about how we might work together.
At the moment we're particularly keen to build connections with potential Fundraising Associates. If you have a track record of successfully levering resources to support creative projects - whether from public or private sources, from pitching, nurturing relationships with individuals, or from drawing up successful funding applications, we'd be interested in hearing from you. Solar's Associates in this area tend to be established, mid to senior-career level fundraisers who may have worked within and beyond the arts, and specialise in one or more areas of contemporary fundraising.
We're also always happy to hear from potential Creative Production Associates, who tend to be in the more emerging-to-mid career stage. As each of our Creative Projects make their own way down the conveyor belt, we often align them with an emerging Producer who has the right skill set in each case. Creative Production Associates may take on responsibilities around coordinating a team of creative artists, project and financial management, evaluation and other areas.
And we're always open to other kinds of conversation - do get in touch if you'd like to discuss an idea or a new relationship!
....as an Intern
We want to those entering the arts and creative industries to have a really stimulating, richly varied experience, and to take advantage of learning opportunities across art form areas, skill bases and organisations. We can offer access to contacts across the arts, wider sector, references, and - to the right people – future opportunities to continue working with us.
Both ourselves and Furtherfield have supported interns successfully on many previous occasions. A recent example is Anna Clark, who, since her work placement with Solar Associates, has worked alongside Damien Hirst for the White Cube Gallery in Hoxton. The first learner we accepted onto the scheme, Aaron Peake, endorses the opportunity:
Some examples of what you might get involved in as a Solar/Furtherfield intern are: marketing; organisational development; project management; exhibitions and events; fundraising; evaluation; and tour booking. So, if this sounds good to you, and if you're:
- fluent in English, with good communication skills including reasonable typing ability;
- able to multi-task and thrive in a fast-changing environment;
- able to work in teams and independently, sometimes away from the office;
- familiar with the internet and comfortable learning new software applications;
- able to think critically;
- hungry to work and learn.