Employment Opportunities
Job Title: THE MARKET THEATRE FOUNDATION INTERNSHIP 2026
Purpose
The Market Theatre Foundation in partnership with Yes4Youth Programme would like to give 10 unemployed young people the opportunity to gain skills and work experience for a period of 12 months.
The 10 successful applicants will have a 12-month fixed contract and will receive a monthly stipend of R5000. No prior experience is required.
Applicants should not be studying full time in 2026.
Applicants should not have participated or been registered on the YES programme before.
NB: Background checks will be conducted for all successful candidates. NB: Relocation will be at your own expense.
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS CLOSE 11 NOVEMBER 2025
JOB ADVERTISEMENT
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
Job Title: Archives and Collections Manager (Fixed term contract: Ending 31 March 2030)
Salary R53 896,95 ctc per month (Global Grade 12) REF No: ACM 01/2026
Purpose
The Archives Manager is responsible for leading and managing the implementation of the Market Theatre Foundation Archival Strategy, ensuring the systematic collection, preservation, digitisation, and promotion of archival materials both tangible and intangible that records the organisation’s artistic, social and institutional history. The role manages archival workflows, develops procedures, ensure condition assessment and appropriate upkeep of archival objects, and ensures legal and ethical compliance, including copyright and intellectual property permissions for use of archival materials. The Archives Manager plays a key role in enabling consolidation of archives, access for research, publications, exhibition, heritage projects and public storytelling, while ensuring the long-term protection and care of the collection (e.g audio visual materials, historic documents and scripts, posters, photographs, paintings, sculptures, set designs).
CLOSING DATE: 10 February 2026.
JOB ADVERTISEMENT
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
Job Title: Human Resource Assistant
Salary R19 005,65 ctc per month (Global Grade 07) REF No: HRA 11/2025
Purpose
Provide administrative and first line HR advisory support to ensure effective service delivery of the HR function
Recruitment
•Execute recruitment and selection activities through:
-Effective and efficient recruitment practices within the budget.
-Timeous and efficient compiling of documentation – letters of appointment, service records, letter of discharge, etc.
•Execute yes4youth internship programme recruitment.
Performance management
•Ensure performance agreements are submitted and deadlines are adhered to.
•Effective recordkeeping of performance appraisal documentation.
Administration
•Effective administration of:
– Resignations
– Exit interviews
– Promotions
•Providing day to day administrative support and assistance of HR processes.
•Develop effective relationship with stakeholders.
•Assist HR manager with WSP, preparing for HR audit, HR reports and CathSETA grant applications.
•Assist with Payroll queries.
CLOSING DATE: 27 November 2025
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES TO SERVE ON THE COUNCIL OF THE MARKET THEATRE FOUNDATION
In terms of the Cultural Institutions Act, 1998 (Act 119 of 1998), the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Mr G Mckenzie invites members of the performing arts (Playhouse/Theatres) fraternity and the public to nominate persons to serve as members of Council of the following Performing Arts Institution (Cultural Institution):
The Market Theatre Foundation (Johannesburg, Gauteng)
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS CLOSE 11 NOVEMBER 2025
