St Helens Council is seeking to appoint a passionate, skilled, and motivated person to coordinate and manage their award winning and successful Local Cultural Education Partnership, CulturEd.
As the Development Officer you will ideally have an arts or cultural background and training to the highest level with experience or appreciation of professional arts practice alongside experience of working with schools, children and young people.
The successful candidate will have knowledge of a wide variety of creative and performing arts, arts practice, and the cultural industries alongside a deep understanding of the school curriculum and the current issues affecting schools.
You will have strong organisational and communication skills and will be an excellent negotiator and advocate for the arts with a wide variety of audiences. Key tasks of the role will include:
• creating the annual schools’ offer of support, CPD and practitioner visits
• monitoring the CulturEd budget and seeking additional sources of external income
• evaluating and quality assuring the LCEPs projects and ongoing work of its practitioners and partner organisations
• challenging and supporting schools create a broad and balanced curriculum offer for their pupils within your artistic specialism and commissioning similar work for other cultural curricular areas.
If you would like to discuss this role informally prior to application, then please contact Jeremy Sleith on Tel: 1744677946 or email: jeremysleith@sthelens.gov.uk
The post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure
Please note they reserve the right to close the advert early should they receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
To apply and find out more information, please follow the link below.
https://sthjobs.azurewebsites.net/Home/JobInformation?jobAdvertGuid=870e7548-8e99-4f5d-bf59-f5d8d03eff6e
If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.
Closing date: 17 December