Freelance Programme Manager (Contract for Service)

Project summary

(Incomplete) Instructions for Proper Assembly is a year-long project exploring how people might gather, learn, and act together differently.  The project is organised around multiple event formats with various collectives, featuring small-scale activities like micro-lectures, workshops, and presentations. While seemingly discrete as events, these “micro” formats are entirely conversant with each other, and the result of ideas cross-pollinated over the course of six months of “assembly meetings”.

The project runs from January to December 2027.

Conceptual framework

Programmes in the project are loosely categorised accordingly:

• School: programmes that re-interpret or challenge the notion and practice of assembly
• Archive: programmes that archive, interrogate, reenact the history of assembly
• Performance: programmes that present new productions in as a response to School & Archive programmes

The estimated working hours: 20 hours/week

Tentative programmes (not exhaustive):

1. Launch event (late January) [school]: A weekend of micro-presentations by various collectives involved in the project, as well as a launch for the project as a whole.
2. Citizen Digital Archive: Civil Society Collection by Post-Museum (year-long)
   [archive]: A citizen archive documenting the people, organisations, projects and histories that have contributed to civil society in Singapore, with multiple inter-disciplinary activations events through the year.
3. FFIGSkoolCamp: A three-day experimental film school by FFIGS (26 to 28 March)
   [school]: A three-day experimental film school that asks: what might film education look like if the people inside a school were allowed to question, disobey and remake the school itself?
4. And more to come…

Scope of work

• Project management for all programmes and activations for the project from January to December 2027.
• Working closely with artists/collectives involved to ensure successful and timely organisation and execution of the programmes.
• Monitoring of milestones and budget tracking for each programme.
• Function as main coordinator and liaison between Goethe-Institut Singapore and artists/ collectives involved in the project.
• Regular in-person meetings with Goethe-Institut Singapore team.
• Regular in-person participation (monthly) at Assembly meetings.
• Social media campaign planning and content creation (copywriting), in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Singapore marketing person, project designer and artists/collectives involved. 

Commitment & Fees

• Two full days / 16 hours per week, from January to December 2027.
• Remote work, with one 2-hour, in-person meeting every week or bi-monthly (depending on need and intensity of events) with Goethe-Institut Singapore.
• Fees to be quoted according to scope.
• Payments can be made monthly or according to an agreed upon schedule.

How to apply & timeline

• Submit a cover letter, CV, and expected fees to Azura.Farid@goethe.de by 25 November 2026.
• In-person interviews will take place from 7 to 11 December 2026.
• The selected candidate will be notified before 18 December 2026.