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The Operations Coordinator is an essential part of Creative Plus Business. You are the ‘swiss army knife’ of our business, equally happy speaking to a client on the phone as you are using our admin systems to create order from the occasional chaos. You are the friendly, calm, creative, and professional first point of contact for our community, handling everything from the high-stakes logistics of our bigger contract work to the bookkeeping and admin checks that keep our social enterprise humming. We’ve specifically designed this 26-hour week (6.5 hours per day, Monday to Thursday) as studio-and school-run friendly, to adapt to the needs of a practicing creative, a parent, and/or an...
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