Community Post Type: Jobs

Some exciting creative opportunities have arisen at the gothic architectural masterpiece that is Rochdale Town Hall.

They are looking for engaging artists who are able to co-create inspiring permanent and temporary artworks of quality, with local people, as part of the current multi-million pound restoration of Rochdale Town Hall.

There are 3 separate commissions or Lots. Permanent installations include those for The Bright Hall and The Grand Staircase.

Full information can be found in the briefing document at https://investinrochdale.co.uk/regeneration/projects/town-hall

There will be an in-person presentation on Friday May 20th, 10.30am – 12.00, at Touchstones, Rochdale, for any artist interested in applying for these opportunities.

This will be a chance for interested applicants to meet key members of the team, and to find out more about the commissions and how they fit into the wider restoration scheme.

Closing date: 10 June

About the opportunity:

Everton F.C. currently have a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking, confident and experienced Equity & Inclusion professional to join their People, Culture and Workplace Wellbeing Department.

Joining them in the new role of Equity & Inclusion Lead – Accessibility & Wellbeing you will deliver expert advice, and guidance, alongside contributing to the development and implementation of strategic policies, practices, and action plans.

You will focus on driving initiatives which support our commitment to disabled people and accessibility, health and wellbeing. The post holder will also function as the Club’s Disability Access Officer and assist in engaging with disabled fans throughout the season, and on match days.

Through the successful implementation of impactful equity and inclusion initiatives (developed in line with business objectives), you will drive awareness of, and build engagement, around key diversity-related issues, contributing to a more inclusive culture were everybody feels respected, celebrated, empowered, and has a sense of belonging.

Who they are looking for;  Their ideal candidate will have previous experience of delivering EDI interventions and influencing positive change via a range of stakeholders and collaborating with the disabled community, providing support and advice to organisations around accessibility.

Interpersonal and influencing skills are essential and being able to inspire and drive delivery across a wide range of EDI areas.

This really is a great opportunity to work alongside great colleagues, where we put people at the heart of everything they do.

This position is on a permanent contract, and will be contacted to 35 hours per week.

The closing date is Tuesday 17th May 2022.

The Everton Family is committed to equal opportunities and is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. They provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, they accept all job applications in a variety of formats and should you need any documents in a different format or require any further support or assistance please contact their Recruitment Team via email - careers@evertonfc.com.

The Everton Family is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

To apply see here.

20 Stories High are looking for an Associate Director who can bring new ideas, energy and creativity to this new role – someone who shares our values, mission, ambition, and is committed to working with young audiences and participants.

Founded in 2006, 20 Stories High has established itself as one of the UK’s leading young people theatre companies. They are part of the Arts Council Englands’ National Portfolio of funded organisations, are a registered charity and have won a series of prestigious awards and commissions.

20 Stories High Associate Director will support the Co-CEO/Artistic Director and Co-CEO/Executive Director in the development and delivery of the company’s artistic programme and strategic vision, collaborating with our team and a wide range of artists and young people, to create excellent, inclusive and unique theatre productions and participatory projects.

The Associate Director will have the opportunity to create their own national touring show, as well as direct youth theatre productions and lead a number of participatory, community and professional development projects artistically.

Deadline: Wednesday 08th June 2022 09:00am

Interviews: Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June 2022

Salary: £25,000 to £28,000 Annually
(salary scale point dependent on experience)

Additional Application Instructions:

To download the Job Description, visit:
https://www.20storieshigh.org.uk/associate-director-recruitment-2022

For further information on 20 Stories High, visit their website: www.20storieshigh.org.uk or contact Amy Thompson: Amy@20storieshigh.org.uk

We are looking for an Associate Director who can bring new ideas, energy and creativity to this new role – someone who shares our values, mission, ambition, and is committed to working with young audiences and participants.

Founded in 2006, 20 Stories High has established itself as one of the UK’s leading young people theatre companies. We are part of the Arts Council Englands’ National Portfolio of funded organisations, are a registered charity and have won a series of prestigious awards and commissions.

20 Stories High Associate Director will support the Co-CEO/Artistic Director and Co-CEO/Executive Director in the development and delivery of the company’s artistic programme and strategic vision, collaborating with our team and a wide range of artists and young people, to create excellent, inclusive and unique theatre productions and participatory projects.

The Associate Director will have the opportunity to create their own national touring show, as well as direct youth theatre productions and lead a number of participatory, community and professional development projects artistically.

Deadline: Wednesday 08th June 2022 09:00am

Interviews: Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June 2022

Salary: £25,000 to £28,000 Annually
(salary scale point dependent on experience)

Additional Application Instructions:
To download the Job Description, visit:
https://www.20storieshigh.org.uk/associate-director-recruitment-2022

For further information on 20 Stories High, please visit our website: www.20storieshigh.org.uk Or contact Amy Thompson: Amy@20storieshigh.org.uk

Do you want to work within the UKs most popular gallery of modern and contemporary art outside of London?

As Development Assistant at Tate Liverpool you’ll deliver exceptional administrative and financial support as part of a team who raise vital funds for their exhibitions and projects, whilst ensuring they deliver high levels of customer service to our individual and Corporate supporters. This will be a rewarding, interesting and varied role, where you will help to ensure a busy Development team operates at their best.

You will have excellent numeracy and administration skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to work to tight deadlines. Experience of working in an administrative role and with financial and numerical data is essential, as your role will include maintaining and updating the department’s financial records. Your proficiency in IT, particularly in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook and your excellent attention to detail, will be vital, allowing you to learn Tate’s IT systems and keep supporter records up to date on their relationship management database (Raisers Edge).

You will be supporter focused, with a friendly and approachable manner, whether it be on video calls, over the phone or helping deliver supporter events. Above all, you’ll need to be an organised team player, able to balance competing demands and work collaboratively with a broad range of people.

How to Apply: 

Their opportunities are open for you to apply online – please visit: www.tate.org.uk/about/workingattate/. For all opportunities, they ask candidates to complete an online application form for the vacancy they are interested in. If you need an application form in an alternative format, please call us on 020 7887 4997.

Closing date: 10 May 2022 at Midnight

 

Founded by residents in 1983, the Gregson is a popular Community Centre in the Freehold area of Lancaster.

Being a trustee at the Gregson requires a strong commitment to community and to participatory arts. In addition to recruiting to the roles of Chair and Secretary, they wish to attract a diverse selection of new trustees with skills and experience in the following areas:

• Fundraising, marketing and promotion
• Financial management
• Business management
• Personnel management
• IT/Technology
• Building Management/Health & Safety
• Volunteering
• Practicing artists

They are very keen to hear from those in traditionally under-represented groups in their community as the GCA Board should fully reflect the rich diversity in the wider community.

For further information, please contact their current Chair and Trustee, Billy Pye at b.pye@gregson-community-association.org.uk or Trustee Joe Sumsion at j.sumsion@gregson-community-association.org.uk.

Closing date: 21 May

Walk the Plank are looking for a digital project manager or small digital agency to support the promotion of the digital programme of our national-scale mass participatory project, Green Space Dark Skies taking place April-September 2022.

They expect this to be approx. 2 days per week. The fee is £1,500 per month for 3 months with the possibility of an extension. Remote working is accepted.

How to Apply:

Please visit their website for the full brief.

If you’re interested, please get in touch with a CV and some examples of your work at marketing@walktheplank.co.uk

 

Hours – Full Time
Based – The Mansion House, Calderstones Park, Liverpool, L18 3JB
Contract – Fixed Term until Nov 2023 (possibility for Permanent extension TBC)
Salary – £26,000 (per annum)
Closing date – 5pm, Monday 16th May 2022

This is an exciting and important role within the programmes team, which sits within the Literature Directorate. You will be responsible for managing an exciting and growing programme including literary & reading events, outdoor theatre and a significant programme of heritage projects.

A key part of the role will be delivering their National Lottery Heritage Fund (the Heritage Fund) supported project called “Making Meaning at Calderstones” – a two-year project that will help uncover and tell the stories of Calderstones as a significant place of meaning-making.

You’ll work closely with Head of Programmes (or Founder on an interim basis) to lead the heritage vision for The Reader, ensuring the work we do in heritage is brought to life and embedded across the organisation. The project is already creating new and interesting ways for more people to experience heritage at Calderstones, providing a vital means of wellbeing support and reducing social isolation.

The public-facing elements of the ‘making meaning at Calderstones’ project include:

• Around the World in Plants and Trees – a community-led exploration of the international botanical and natural history of the park

• Making Meaning at The Garden Theatre – capturing the many precious memories of the theatre before they are lost.

• Diverse Connections to Calderstones – unearthing the site’s challenging connections to the transatlantic slave trade and how this relates to Liverpool’s wider maritime history and its connections to the transatlantic slave trade.

• Literature in Heritage – exploring the history of reading and of coming together to share stories.

• Heritage Storybarn Presents – a stomp through the past Storybarn-style for children and families.

• Opportunities for skills development, volunteering, work experience and employment for those who need it most.

You’ll need to develop an in-depth understanding of the project aims, targets & approved purposes, and project manage all strands of activity, including overseeing the budget and risk register and leading cross-team meetings.

They have ambitious plans to reach and engage audiences in new ways, and have developed a ‘Front Door Key’ an initiative which offers discounted/ free tickets across our programme to people living with disadvantaged circumstances around the local area, which you will lead.

You’ll work closely with their Director of Impact and external affairs to develop a strong understanding of the target audiences, and ensure our work has impact in equality, diversity and inclusion. Alongside the Making Meaning at Calderstones specific project work, you will work with the wider Literature Directorate and programmes team, to create and manage the organisation of the wider programmes plan.

You’ll line manage the Heritage Programmes Coordinator and Programme co-ordinator. You are someone who is experienced in delivering multiple creative projects simultaneously, can manage work that involves a number of teams and external agencies, and are a flexible worker who can lend expertise to other teams as deemed appropriate. There are some creative elements to the role, but we are essentially looking for a highly skilled project management professional.

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge & Skills

• Use your extensive and varied experience to deliver the targets and overall goals of the programme and project manage the full Making Meaning at Calderstones programme of work

• Able to quickly develop an understanding of all Making Meaning at Calderstones project strands enabling you to lead bi-weekly cross organizational team meeting and resolve all team queries and feedback relating to the project

• Creating and managing comprehensive project plans and effective project management processes to ensure all approved purposes are delivered on time and to budget

• Overseeing and managing the Making Meaning at Calderstones budget and risk register (cross organizational)

• Develop and demonstrate a clear understanding of audience and EDI targets and the project’s specific KPI’s and outcomes

• Deliver & implement the Front Door Key project within the Making Meaning at Calderstones programme of work

• Develop comprehensive briefings for all relevant teams involved in each project you’re delivering, defining and assigning roles and responsibilities

• Proactively contribute ideas for the programme by keeping abreast of industry trends/activity – bringing new ideas to the programme aligned with the Reader values and team objectives

Leadership and People Management

• Lead the Reader’s heritage vision & work and ensure it is integrated across all departments – identifying and creating opportunities to embed the understanding of heritage into the wider organization

• Line-manage the heritage coordinator and programme coordinator, including monitoring their development by carrying out quarterly reviews, performance management and sickness and holiday management

• Develop the project management and coordination skills of team members in the programmes team by creating learning and shadowing opportunities where appropriate

• Lead the team to coordinate planning and effective input into the cross-organisational planning process

• Carry out lessons-learned review process at the end (or at appropriate stage) of each project strand, working with all involved teams to find out what went well and what could be improved, and share findings with other relevant teams

Communication

• Ability to liaise and communicate with staff across several departments, including senior management

• Lead the communication of project plans and key milestones to stakeholders – both internal and external, using discretion and discernment when communicating with 3rd party stakeholders

• Manage relationships with external organisations collaborating with the programmes team on relevant projects, such as digital agencies and community groups, ensuring they deliver a quality of work that reflects the values and mission of The Reader at Calderstones

• Work closely with Development team to co-ordinate Funder reporting (quarterly) including attending regular the Heritage Fund update meetings to report on project progress and discuss any challenges as required.

Planning & Organising

• Ability to organize & prioritise time and workloads under your own steam, work to tight deadlines, & manage conflicting priorities

• Responsible for overseeing the planning and delivery of the Making Meaning at Calderstones programme of work, managing a comprehensive project plan and timeline, and ensuring associated teams have all they need in order to progress the project deliverables

• Create, update and monitor the wider Reader Programme plan, including oversight of workplan for team, leading on programmes team input into the cross-organisational planning process.

• Keep an up to date programme calendar, making sure programmed work is planned ahead and included in all organisation-wide planning documents and systems such as Yesplan

• Oversee the timely briefing of key events and activity into delivery teams such as communications, operations, facilties & monitoring and evaluation

• Working alongside the Monitoring and Evalaution team, ensure well-thought out evaluation plans in place for the Making Meaning at Calderstones project and programme events under your remit

• Responsible for ensuring that The Reader meets its obligations in terms of budget and outcomes agreed as outlined in the Heritage Fund ‘Making meaning at Calderstones’ bid

Initiative & Problem Solving

• Use initiative to think creatively and independently about challenges that arise on fast moving programme projects and work to identify solutions alongside Head of programmes

• Manage and adapt accurate budgets. Take responsibility for the Heritage Fund budget and appropriate use of funds, working alongside the Head of Finance to report to the Funder as required
Decision Making & Freedom to Act

• Take responsibility for the successful delivery of the Making meaning at Calderstones project

• Ability to think decisively and weigh-up different solutions to project challenges, assessing their risks and opportunities using previous varied experience and lessons learned

• Teamworking and Collaboration o You will build close relationships with Reader teams involved in delivering programmes work, including (but not limited to) communications, operations & facilities, Children and Young People and the volunteer team, in order to make sure the work we do is joined up and collaborative, initiating regular communication

• Ensure our programme has impact and reaches the agreed target audiences, working closely with our Director of Impact and External Affairs and our in-house Monitoring & Evaluation team to find the most effective ways of measuring our programme & building reports alongside Development.

• Responsible for ensuring programme team’s scheduling, planning & reporting processes is smooth and well planned, and meets internal and external deadlines

• You will contribute towards bids for relevant project work, including creating and inputting ideas, targets & proposed budgets

Person Specification

• Experience of delivering and managing projects, programmes or events

• Experience managing cultural project work

• Experience or working in a heritage context or an interest and ability to learn

• Experience of literature/reading work, including your own life as a reader

• Able to work with and manage closely a range of varied partners and collaborators, internal and external

• Able to plan and prioritise workloads with limited resources, and respond flexibly to changing circumstances

• Ability to work under pressure, delivering to tight deadlines, managing conflicting priorities

• Problem solving skills, able to think of creative solutions in fast paced working environment

• Excellent communication skills with a strong background in liaising with a range of stakeholders internally and externally

• Capable of understanding facts and figures, including ability to monitor and report

• Good interpersonal skills, including well developed listening skills, able to empathise with others and view situations from different perspectives

• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of The Readers’ wider work and its social mission, and show a commitment to our values

• Ability to contribute to a site that is open 7 days per week. You will need to be able to act as operational site lead for events during evenings and weekends as agreed

Download the Application Pack here

This is your chance to bring your knowledge and experience of working with young people in a community, museum or gallery context to this exciting role.

You’ll use your planning and administrative skills to help deliver a programme of workshops and events for young people aged 15 – 25, championing Tate Liverpool as inclusive venues for young audiences.

You’ll lead the peer-led young person’s group, Tate Collective Producers, and support them to research, devise and deliver events, workshops and resources which engage diverse audiences, both in the galleries and online, ensuring that they are properly resourced and delivered on time.

Your strong project management skills and collaborative working style means that you’ll be able to organise logistics for small to large events, both onsite, offsite and in the digital realm, with the ability to co-ordinate people and oversee budgets.

You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills, communicating effectively with Tate staff as well as strategic partner organisations, including cultural and youth sector partners, schools, local authorities and universities. You’ll also have experience of using social media and digital learning. What’s more, whether you have a degree in art, education or equivalent experience, you will have a strong commitment to inclusion and diversity and the work of Tate.

To apply see here.

Closing date: 9 May

This appointment is offered as a fixed term contract until end of March 2023.