Community Post Type: Jobs

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and knowledgeable person who is passionate about world dance to continue to develop and deliver their world dance programme, supporting emerging artists, talent development, individual wellbeing and communities.

Job Description

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Closing date: 30 June

This is an exciting time to join People’s History Museum (PHM) and lead the Collections Team. You’ll develop and launch a new sustainable collecting policy and work with the Head of Collections & Engagement to shape plans for a future redevelopment of the main galleries.

You’ll oversee several live externally funded projects to improve cataloguing and digitisation which form vital building blocks to improving collections management and future engagement with the museum’s collection.

They are looking for a dedicated professional to lead the care and management of PHM’s collection. The ideal candidate will understand current issues and best practice within collections management and curation, and will have strong IT skills to lead on the ongoing development of our digital collections management systems, including our collections management system, EMu, and our new digital asset management system, Axiell DAMS – Powered by Piction.

The Collections Manager is responsible for the management of two Collections Officers, currently working on a project funded by the John Ellerman Foundation to digitise and catalogue PHM’s collection, as well as a new Collections Assistant, funded by the Headley Foundation.

The successful applicant will work closely with the Engagement, Archive, Conservation, and Communications & Marketing Teams on current and upcoming projects, including future exhibition development, digitisation, and sharing our stories with our audiences.

The role would be ideal for someone with experience in collections management and curation, and with strong experience of working with collections management systems. Direct experience with EMu would be an advantage.

Please complete the online application form. Please outline how your experience, knowledge and skills meet the job description and provide details. Your application will be assessed and scored against the job description using the information provided.

Closing date for applications: 9.00am on Friday 23 June 2023

Interviews: Tuesday 11 July 2023, in person at PHM

If you require any information or the application form in an alternative format please contact Jackie Royle, Finance & Operations Officer at jackie.royle@phm.org.uk. Please also contact Jackie if you have any questions or would like to arrange to discuss the role.

MBM are looking for a new Relationship Manager to build and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders, from project participants to funders and commissioners. One of MBM’s values is ‘investing in people’ and this is a key aspect of this role.

The Relationship Manager will also lead on audience development, participant recruitment and the evaluation of our projects; tracking the impact of MBM’s work and then disseminating the findings to relevant stakeholders.

The Relationship Manager will promote MBM at various networking events and assist in generating new business. You will work primarily as part of the business development team alongside the CEO and Artistic Director, while also collaborating with engagement, communications and project teams when necessary.

Key information:

• Salary: £33K (0.8 pro rata)
• Hours: 32 (the equivalent of 4 days/week).
• Place Of Work: Ashton Old Baths, Stamford Street West, Ashton-under-lyne, OL6 7FW
• Benefits include: Flexible working hours, a 5% employer contribution to pension scheme (if PAYE), own computer and mobile phone, training and development opportunities, staff theatre trips.

How To Apply:

For a full job description, person specification and details of how to apply, please visit MBM’s website at madebymortals.org

If you would like more information or to chat informally about the role, please contact Catherine on 0161 706 1011 or email catherine@madebymortals.org

Applications close: Friday 30th June 2023

Interviews on: Friday 21st July 2023.

They are looking for someone with proven technical stage skills to join the Production Department as a Senior Technician – Stage at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.

The Production team deliver and facilitate all of the production and technical requirements of their work on stage and support off-stage activities around the buildings and out in the community, assisting with skills development for their Young Everyman & Playhouse (YEP) programme.

The key duties of the post are:

• to jointly supervise the provision of stage and flying requirements throughout in house, visiting, event and Young Everyman & Playhouse (YEP) programmes
• to ensure the highest level of health and safety across all stage department activities.
• to support and participate in the delivery of occasional technical skill development activity for young people as part of the YEP programme.
• to maintain and have joint ownership of the workshop, performance, and storage areas

The basic rate of pay is £23,772 per annum

Authorised overtime is payable with regular get out and additional payments in line with the UKT/BECTU agreement.

It is anticipated that overtime payments can expect to increase annual salary to £28 000 – £31 000 per annum.

To apply, see here

They are seeking to appoint a Buildings and Operations Manager to help look after their wonderful building and the huge variety of things that they do in and around it.

The post holder will lead in maintaining high standards of operations, presentation, and maintenance at the Manchester Museum. You will oversee daily building operations and be responsible for the operational efficiency, effectiveness and daily management of the Museums facilities, building systems and maintenance to ensure they meet the needs of all our building users and stakeholders.

With experience of leading a team you will have managed and implemented operational processes in previous roles. You will be an articulate and outward facing individual, with excellent communication skills, a commitment to overseeing high standards of work, meticulous attention to detail and an ability to remain calm and cordial while working in a busy environment.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Their University is positive about flexible working and blended working arrangements may be considered

Please note that they are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Dean Whiteside, Head of Commercial and Operations dean.whiteside@manchester.ac.uk

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date, 1 June.

Job requirements

See the Further Particulars and Person Specification https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=25359 – here.

Job responsibilities

See the Further Particulars and Person Specification https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=25359 – here.

To apply, see here

Job title: Senior Fundraiser

Salary: £29,260.00 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Base: The Brain Charity, Norton Street, Liverpool, L3 8LR

Hours: Full time – 37.5hrs per week

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Background to The Brain Charity

Life for any of us can change in an instant. Experiencing a road traffic accident, a major stroke or being diagnosed with dementia can happen unexpectedly and can change our lives forever.

The Brain Charity offers emotional support, practical help and social activities to anyone with a neurological condition and to their family, friends and carers.

There are hundreds of different neurological conditions including stroke, brain tumour, brain injury, Alzheimer’s and many rarer conditions.

Role summary

They are really pleased to say that The Brain Charity is growing year on year. We are now looking to expand our fundraising team.

The overall purpose of the role of Senior Fundraiser (Corporates and Legacies) is to bring about tangible and positive change to the lives of people with neurological conditions by raising funds to support the charity’s work. This includes:

• Identifying key opportunities for corporate fundraising, marketing the charity and its work to a wide variety of potential corporate donors, supporters and fundraising and stewarding new and existing corporates through a unique calendar of engagement to make a meaningful difference.
• Promoting legacy fundraising opportunities, stewarding the families of legacy donors and assisting with the management of estates where the charity is named as a beneficiary.
• Generating and maximising charitable income from trusts and foundations by researching funding opportunities, writing compelling funding applications and promoting the charity’s work to a wide range of potential funders.

Whether you are an ambitious fundraiser looking for the next opportunity or have a host of transferable skills from a different industry and are looking to make a move into the third sector, we would be keen to hear from you.

Please find the job description in the downloadable application pack which covers the key responsibilities of the role and person specification.

Benefits of working for The Brain Charity

Working for The Brain Charity has some great benefits. All of these benefits are available upon starting unless stated otherwise.

• 25 days contractual annual leave in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising 1 day per full year of service up to a maximum of 28 days for full time employees.  This is pro-rata’d for all part-time employees.
• Medicash – physical wellbeing support with a wide range of subsidised treatments including dental bills, optical care, alternative and complementary therapies, chiropody, health screenings and more.
• Premium Employee Assistance Programme – mental wellbeing support with access to 24/7 employee support services and face to face counselling sessions.
• mProve YOURSELF – a wellbeing app with a range of wellbeing courses.
• Skinvision skin health tracker.
• Online discount platform providing discounts on shopping, travel and gym memberships.
• 10% company pension on successful completion of 6 month probation. T&Cs apply for fixed term contracts.
• A range of family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and sick absence entitlements.
• Free parking (when available) at Head Office, Norton Street, L3 8LR.
• Free Will writing service with Kwil Legal Services.
• Discounted Arriva bus travel
• A wide range of high-quality learning open to all with opportunities to train, develop and support to realise your potential.

Application information

They are an award-winning charity and have received The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest accolade given by the Crown to third sector organisations.

If you are passionate about our cause and would like to become part of a vibrant and diverse team, we would love to hear from you.

The Brain Charity prides itself on being an open and diverse place to work and we openly encourage those from minority groups to apply.

Apply now

To apply, you will need to complete the application form in their downloadable application pack

Please do not send in your CV as this will not be counted.

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 16th June 2023.

Interviews for successful applicants will take place on Friday 23rd June.

Please e-mail jobs@thebraincharity.org.uk or ring 0151 298 2999 if you have any questions.

The Florrie has been at the heart of its community for over 130 years. Their stunning, Grade II listed, Victorian community arts & heritage venue is a social, educational & charitable hub for the people of south Liverpool.

The Florrie is looking for an energetic, creative, and organised Events & Venue Coordinator to plan and oversee event operations. In this role, you are required to coordinate and manage the logistics of their own and 3rd party events, meetings, conferences & weddings whilst regularly liaising with clients and orchestrating staff, artists, audiences, 3rd party hirers and the local community.

You will play a pivotal role working alongside their Events team and Commercial Manager in the planning and delivery of The Florrie’s fundraising events and will be responsible for delivering a high level of service and standards to all users.

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

Closing date: Friday 16 June 2023. Interviews: Friday 23 June 2023.
Contact Details: laurence@theflorrie.org.

Hours – Available as full or part time post with a minimum contract of 28 hours per week. Flexible working arrangements considered.

Reports to – Associate Director of Communications and Marketing

Based – North West, with flexible working available

Contract – Permanent

Salary – £30,000 per annum

Closing date – 9am, Monday 12th June 2023. This is a new role in the organisation to help The Reader further develop its use of digital services to further our mission of transforming lives through the power of literature.

To apply, see here

Over the last 4 years, The Reader has invested in its digital transformation and the pandemic was a catalyst for innovation; we launched a new website; a new event ticketing system; an online community hub for volunteers. They rolled out a new CRM to staff, they digitised volunteer training and started online Shared Reading groups for the first time.

They now wish to build on this work through the creation of this role in order to further enhance and embed digital services. Perhaps you’ve been a Business Analyst or Product Owner in the corporate sector and want more variety or a chance to use your digital skills for social impact? Perhaps you’ve worked in a bigger digital team or agency and are keen to develop leadership skills or are ready to take more leadership responsibility and see things end to end? Whatever your background, they can offer flexible working and a chance to join a values-driven, ambitious team.

It’s a great time to join, with multiple projects on the horizon for and the opportunity to lead the development of their longer term digital plans.

What else can they offer you?

• Flexible Working Options including home working

• A chance to personally experience the wellbeing benefits of Shared Reading – we do lots of reading in the workplace and you’ll have the opportunity to visit our community groups and train in Shared Reading if you’d like to lead one yourself

• Generous holiday entitlement

• Beautiful Head Office location at Calderstones Mansion House, in the middle of Calderstones Park. Here you can benefit from walking meetings in one of Liverpool’s largest parks and staff discounts in our café and ice cream parlour

• Great colleagues – As The Reader’s Digital Manager, you’ll be the digital lead in the organisation, but you’ll be working with a whole range of supportive, creative colleagues who bring insight into our digital products and their users. This will include the Head of Shared Reading Practice, Teaching and Learning Content Manager, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Training Lead, the IT Team, Development team and the Programmes Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will lead a range of projects (with our initial focus on our Word-press sites), taking responsibility for defining scope, defining user groups and desired outcomes

• You’ll be able to translate organisational need into functional requirements, showing initiative and creativity to understand goals, think through solutions and inspire colleagues to work out the ‘how’.

• You’ll be responsible for building on our digital roadmap and you’ll have the autonomy to provide recommendations for how our digital work can be developed in the short, medium and longer term

• You will be the day to day manager of our digital agency partner and responsible for maintaining an effective relationship, overseeing retained support and maintenance work and ensuring digital projects are delivered on time and on budget

• You’ll have experience working in an agile way and using a range of tools to articulate project roadmaps, to prioritise and keep stakeholders regularly updated, egs; Kanban style tools

• You’ll be interested in data and comfortable using a range of tools including Google Analytics, to better understand our online engagement and proactively spot opportunities for improvements and enhancements to meet our users’ needs

• You will be required to work cross-departmentally, using your facilitation skills to bring cross-organisational teams together on digital projects, distil ideas, coordinating input, whilst managing expectations.

• You will coordinate and chair the internal digital working group to keep an overview of all connected work across web projects, CRM and IT and produce regular reports for Directors Group

Person specification

Essential

• A passion for The Reader’s mission and an understanding of the power of Shared Reading

• Strong organisational skills – ability to manage multiple projects, prioritise work and resources effectively, defining clear KPI’s and realistic roadmaps

• A confident communicator with strong influencing skills who builds relationships with colleagues from all areas of the organisation and can translate technical language to a non-expert audience

• Experience of Agile working and using project management tools to manage multiple projects

• Analytical skills – you’ll enjoy using data and insights to come up with creative solutions

• Excellent understanding of the digital landscape and a range of tools, specifically WordPress, Google Analytics, Survey Monkey, CRM

• An understanding of user experience, user-led design to ensure our Reader community is at the heart of how we design and develop our services

• Confident to offer challenge and openness to be challenged

• Strategic thinker – ability to grasp organisational strategy and ability to leading thinking on how technology can further overarching business aims

• Experience of managing relationships with internal developer teams, IT Teams and third party agencies, including managing a Support Backlog

• Good understanding of data compliance and relevant policies, including GDPR, CookiesGood

• Excellent facilitation skills to lead meetings, facilitate creative sessions and support decision-making

• Excellent people skills in order to bring stakeholders together around a shared vision aligned to strategic objectives to ensure our products and services meet user needs and organisational goals.

• Proactive and ambitious for achieving high quality work and our future digital ambitions
Desirable

• Agile / project management certification

• Experience of working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

• Experience of working on CRM projects

• Experience of working on Arts Council England reporting

The Practice Administrator will work remotely and from the Manchester office to provide administrative support across the firm.

You will be line managed by the Practice Manager and work closely with the Deputy Practice Manager, HR & Admin Manager and Finance Manager to support internal administrative functions.

Counterculture Partnership LLP (Counterculture) is a business consultancy and independent law firm working with third sector, cultural, creative people and organisations. Their work ranges from strategic planning to funding, financial and project management, governance and advocacy, operations, training, IT, HR and legal services.

Their approach is built on experience within the cultural and charity sectors, with clients including Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and London International Festival of Theatre in the arts industry as well as Liverpool Guild of Students, and the Helena Kennedy Foundation in the wider charity sector.

Contract: Full Time (permanent)

Salary: £21,000 – £24,000 (dependent on experience)

Benefits: – 20 days holiday in addition to statutory holidays, increasing to 22 days after one year and subsequently 25 days after a further three years

– Pension scheme

– Opportunities for training and professional development

Please submit an up to date CV and supporting statement describing your relevant experience and why you think you are suitable for the position by 12 noon on Monday 5th June to Jacqui Halls: Jacqui@counterculturellp.com

Working with the Chief Executive, and the Human Resources (HR) Manager, you will play a key role in supporting and contributing to the delivery of Liverpool Philharmonic’s HR services, providing administrative support to the HR function across all areas of the including recruitment and selection, induction, probation, absence management, performance management and employee relations.

You will be responsible for managing all communications and administration for the Chief Executive, the Chair and the Board and will liaise with Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council in relation to funding including producing necessary monitoring information to meet their grant conditions.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone with good administrative, analytical and organisational ability who is interested in a role in performing arts administration, and in developing their HR skills and knowledge.

The salary for this post is £24,960 per annum.

For more details and to apply, see here

Closing date: 29 May