So you want my arts job: Peak Body Executive Director

Katherine Connor from PAC Australia talks us through her role and the demands of an average week.
A white woman with dark, shoulder-length hair and wearing a dark dress and diamond-shaped earrings smiles at the camera.

Katherine Connor is the Executive Director of PAC Australia, delivering the organisation’s sector development, capacity building and advocacy priorities.

And he worked in music for a long time, so I guess even among friends and family in the sector we can be a bit obscure.

I’ve since learned that some of the best, or most highly effective, arts workers I know have at some point done independent producing, or come up through a venue. Both are ripe for learning how to get stuff done and building your lateral thinking muscle.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts