Jennifer Phillips is an experienced arts manager with extensive events, project management and arts marketing experience. She set up artstable to bring together specialists to deliver a variety of arts projects.

Jennifer is currently General Manager of Citymoves Dance Agency in Aberdeen. Previous experience includes Producer at Abderite Theatre, General Manager of Aberdeen International Youth Festival and positions at The Almanac Gallery, Chichester Festival Theatre and Mead Art Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.
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CAREER HISTORY

June 09 – present
General Manager, Citymoves Dance Agency, Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen
(including Acting Artistic Director, Jan 10 – March 11)
Citymoves is the Dance Development Agency for North East Scotland, part of Aberdeen City Council and foundation funded by Creative Scotland.
* Fundraising, business planning, marketing and financial management and line management of staff
* Creating and implementing Citymoves business plan
* Producer for DanceLive 2010, including all programming and fundraising
* Instigated and produced This is Performance Art (Aberdeen) 2011

June 07 – May 09
General Manager, Aberdeen International Youth Festival (AIYF), Aberdeen
Aberdeen International Youth Festival is an annual multi-art form residential participatory festival, attracting up to 1000 international young people.
* Planning and delivering over 70 events at the Festival, including performances, workshops, sponsors events
* Creating and implementing the Festival’s marketing strategy, including the “Share the experience, see something new” campaign
* Managing volunteer staff, interns and contracted artists
* Managing marketing and project budgets

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Creative & Cultural Skills Future Leaders Programme (April 10 – March 11)
Mentoring from Katie Stuart (Dance Base) through Step Up – FST (Jan – Dec 10)
Strategic Marketing (TMA) Intensive arts marketing course (May 08)
September 06 Druidstone Essentials of Marketing (TMA) residential arts marketing course (September 06)
Matrix 2004/5 (Common Purpose) Leadership development programme (Nov 04 – Sept 05)
Mentoring from Michael Richardson (West Lothian Youth Theatre) (04)

EDUCATION

Chartered Institute of Marketing: Certificate in Marketing

BA (Hons) History of Art 2.1
University of Warwick / Universita Ca’ Foscari di Venezia.

AFFILIATIONS

Jennifer is a board member of Abderite Theatre Company and a member of the Arts Marketing Association.