Susan Eldridge Email & Phone Number

United States

Melbourne, Australia

🔩 2024 PROJECTSEARLY CAREER ARTS ADMINISTRATION COMMUNITY Rebooting this community that came together in 2020-2022 to host in person events across Australia (and beyond) for peers to peer learning alongside a series of Zoom workshops where I'll turbo boost their learning on leadership and communication.NAVIGATE WELL CAREER GUIDE A new, specialist career guide for creative folx in collaboration with the Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Wellbeing Collective. It's the ultimate "how to" we all need(ed)!💪 RECENT WINSGUEST LECTURER Royal Northern College of Music, Young Classical Artists Trust, Leeds Conservatoire, Australian National Academy of Music, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra "Growing Pain In The Arts"FACILITATOR AND TRAINER Left, Write, HookLEARNING DESIGNER for AMEB "The AMEB Award" and “Creating Mentally Healthy Workplaces” workshops for Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Wellbeing Collective LEARNING DESIGNER and FACILITATOR for “Artist Assembly”, "Accelerando" and "Regional Music Exchange" programs for Melbourne Recital CentreMENTOR Capstone Projects Global Leaders Institute, Communicating The Arts 30 Under 30 COMMITTEE International Initiatives The College Music Society, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Music Review, APRA Art Music Awards Excellence in Music EducationCOACH for performers, arts administrators and music educators FOUNDER Crosswinds Ensemble🎧MY PODCASTSCHANGE YOUR TUNE Conversations about career pivots, transitions and exits from classical music https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-your-tune/id1577500832THE PROGRESSATORIUM Conversations with change makers in higher music education https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-progressatorium-podcast/id1515447931

Responsible for curriculum and learning design for the subjects "Music Management & Enterprise", "Music Internship" and "Music Outreach & Social Entrepreneruship" for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Orchestral Studies degrees.My expertise in recrafting the learning experience of these subjects has resulted in outstanding graduate employment outcomes, with students working at a range of arts organisations across the country.Student Evaluation Survey results for these subjects regularly outrank university wide median results.

Melbourne

Responsible for the creation, co-ordination and delivery of a unique career and entrepreneurship program for the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Offering a range of online resources, extra curricular workshops, seminars and individual career coaching, I secured over $AUD250K funding from a range of university innovation grants. Initiated a range of innovative projects including the Creative Female Founders Series, paid student internships for Community Teaching Artists and Community Music Arts Administration, created an Early Career Arts Administration Community of Practice (CoP) and Designed and founded the University of Melbourne Staff Orchestra and Staff Choir ensembles, Work Integrated Learning (WiL) projects which were managed by music students on stipend. Students received extensive 1:1, group mentorship and an innovative curriculum centred around experiential learning. Created a new curriculum for the Music Outreach & Social Entrepreneurship subject within the Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) degree and substantially overhauled the learning design and curriculum for the Music Management & Enterprise and Music Internship coursework for B Mus (Honours) candidates. These changes improved academic integrity and significantly enhanced student preparedness for graduate employability, student evaluations consistently outrank university mean results. I created a range of innovative learning design and curriculum requirements for the undergraduate Chamber Music subject.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for strategy and delivery of earned revenue from Major Donor, Trusts & Foundations, Partnerships and Gifts in Wills to support international tours, national tours, special projects, music education programs and competitions.

Brisbane, Australia

Delivered significant growth, outperforming estimates and increased event registrations through creative programming and leveraging of regional opportunities.

Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Formerly known as Congruent Professional Services, Allinity was a specialist PeopleSoft technical and functional consultancy practice. The founders established and developed an European practice, directed business expansion to a global turnover of £5M (AUD$10M) per annum and employing 30 staff in the UK and France within 3 years.

Sydney, Australia And Winchester, United Kingdom

Event management responsibility for Rock Eisteddfod Challenge events in Queensland ACT, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Event management of the inaugural Croc Festival, a 3 day festival staged in remote FNQ and one of the most logistically complicated school based events staged in Australia. Part of the Australian National Drug Offensive, the event was attended by the Governor General of Australia. Subsequently relocated to the UK as Event Manager, and produced the initial delivery of the event in Northern Ireland. This involved negotiating within a complex network of government agencies including the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Department of Education and Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.

Women In Leadership Short Course, Organizational Leadership

Melbourne Teaching Certificate, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Mental Health First Aid

Hltaid01 First Aid

The Creative'S Workshop

Master'S Degree, Master Of Music Performance

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Music (Instrumental)