Open Call: Advisers for Advisement Sessions Beginning in December 2025

Please note: This is the open call for advisors. There is a separate one for instructors.

For our project Berlin Performing Arts Program – Support, Advisement and Qualification in Transformation, we are on the lookout for experienced members of Berlin’s independent performing arts community who would like to pass on their knowledge over the course of advisement sessions.

Since 2013, the Berlin Performing Arts Program has supported members of the independent performing arts community through a diverse range of opportunities including information events, workshops and other qualification opportunities. Our range of opportunities are available to all members of the independent performing arts community, free of charge. We offer orientation, the transfer of knowledge, qualification and networking both for newcomers as well as for more established members of the community.

Our range of opportunities have been financed exclusively through a variety of project fundings since 2013. Our new project, Berlin Performing Arts Program – Support, Advisement and Qualification in Transformation, is funded by Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community and the European Social Fund (ESF) and will last until September 2027. For this project, we are looking for experts who can provide individual advisement sessions.

Format 
The format of the individual advisement sessions will be offered via the website and via the newsletter of the Information Center. Interested parties will register for a session with us with their specific questions and these will be passed on to the advisers who have suitable expertise. An individual advisement session is schedule for two hours and can be conducted online or as a physical appointment. If necessary, a physical advisement space can be requested.

Compensation
35 € per hour (net) including preparation and follow-up work. The advisors agree to document and assess the qualification (participation and/or increase of competence). We will conclude fee agreements for the work as advisors. 

Work Period
From December 2025, at the earliest, until September 2027, at the latest.

Scope of Work
Freelance employment with a framework contract for the entire time period or a partial time period

Statements of Interest
We ask you to please send your statements of interest by November 3, 2025 so that we can ensure that the advisement sessions are able to begin being offered as of December. This call is currently planned to be repeated in the spring of 2026.

We would like to find advisors with competencies in one or more of the following areas and topics:

• The foundations of (artistic) freelance work, including legal forms, accounting, taxes, the KSK (Künstlersozialkasse, the German public social insurance fund for artists) and financial management  
• Producing in the field of the independent performing arts in Berlin, nationally and also internationally, if possible
• Project development and strategy planning
• Funding and preparing funding applications
• Alternative funding opportunities
• Comprehensive knowledge and insight into the structure of Berlin’s independent performing arts community, its performance venues and networks   
• Knowledge regarding distribution and networking (marketing strategies, cooperations, guest performance management)
• Press and PR work, social media marketing
• Legal consultation
• Diversity development and anti-discrimination
• Access and accessibility
• Working in international teams and contexts
• Long-term career planning
• Crisis management and dealing with conflicts in work contexts  

You are also welcome to suggest additional advisement topics for qualification in the independent performing arts. In the Berlin Performing Arts Program, we exclusively offer advisement opportunities in non-artistic areas.

We are on the lookout for advisors with foreign language skills and experience with working methods that are sensitive to diversity. We place value on a collegial and respectful working environment and, as a result, offer space for exchange and discussion regarding the content of the program. In order to support the advisors, we also offer regular networking meetings and qualification opportunities.

The representation of the diversity of society within our structures is our goal. As a result, we expressly invite representatives of marginalized perspectives to submit statements of interest. We ensure the professional equality of people of all genders and want to allow the compatibility of family and career. We are happy to discuss what we can do in order to remove any barriers that still exist.

We are looking forward to receiving statements of interest with:

•  A CV that illustrates your professional and artistic development
• Verification of the highest education degree that you have received
• A statement of motivation (1 DIN A4 page) that explains your reasons for wanting to work as an advisor and that speaks to your expertise for certain thematic areas
• The naming of 2 to 5 specific topics that you can advise on
• An indication of the possible advisement languages that you can offer

The selection will take place in accordance with the following criteria: practice experience in the independent performing arts, experience in advisement, transfer of knowledge, well-founded expertise in the thematic areas named above, working methods that are sensitive to diversity, foreign language skills and experience in working with digital formats.

We ask you to please combine all of the parts of the statement of interest into one PDF document and mark it with the code UBQ2527/B. An initial assignment can take place as early as December 2025, but a later start to the opportunities you are offering is also possible, of course.

Statements of interest must be sent exclusively via email to: beraterinnen [at] pap-berlin.de (beraterinnen[at]pap-berlin[dot]de).