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CIAF 2024

New Year, New Opportunity at CIAF!

02 Jan 2024

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CIAF is hiring a Fashion Co-Ordinator!

Position description

The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) is Australia’s premier Indigenous art fair. Now approaching its fifteenth anniversary, CIAF generated over $7 Million to the Queensland economy in 2024 (as per IER Economic report), has provided career pathways, economic and social & emotional wellbeing outcomes to thousands of Indigenous artists, designers and performers. A major event on the national cultural calendar, each year CIAF presents the Art Fair, Art Market, Fashion Performance, Music in the Park, Symposium, and much more.

POSITION: Fashion Co-ordinator

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Part-time

TERM: 2 years

ROLE DESCRIPTION SHORT: Work with the Artistic Director to produce the overall delivery of a vibrant, inclusive and culturally immersive CIAF Fashion Program. The selected applicant will become an integral member of the CIAF team, as the organisation ambitiously works towards the annual delivery of the CIAF Fashion Performance becoming a nationally significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island fashion event. The Producer will work with the Artistic Director to ensure the program is culturally distinct, inclusive, fostering a spirit of cross-cultural exchange and generosity.

This is an Identified role, where Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity, cultural knowledge, or connections are a genuine requirement.

HOW TO APPLY: Email artfair [at] ciaf.com.au for application details

CLOSING DATE: 5pm, Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

CIAF Fashion Co-Ordinator Application Information

241213_ciaf_fashion_co-ordinator_application_information.pdf (224.93 KB)

Image credit: Design by Delvene Cockatoo Collins for CIAF 2023 Fashion Performance