Community Post Type: Jobs

Freelance Spoken Word Producer and Performer – Shakespeare North Playhouse, closes 7 Mar

Shakespeare North Playhouse is being created through a mixture of public, private and philanthropic funding. Knowsley Council has contributed £12.2m, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority £11m and National Government £8m.

Alongside this sits significant philanthropic funding, including a major donation from the Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation Trust.

They are announcing the first programme of work on our stages, in our performance garden and across our building in March with tickets going on sale at the end of April. The venue will open this summer.

To form an element of their celebration of the Year of Spoken Word, in line with Liverpool City Region’s literacy drive, we are now offering a yearlong residency to a Spoken Word Producer and Performer.

They are keen to receive applications from artists specialising in any form of spoken word, such as rap, performance poetry, storytelling, and comedy, and are particularly interested in experimental, innovative and socially engaged practice.

Download the Job Description here.

Fee: The total fee for this role is £23,000 exclusive of VAT and includes all materials and expenses.

Questions or queries to: evonne.bixter@shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk

Submission: by Monday 7 March 2022

Submissions to:  evonne.bixter@shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk

Occupational Therapist with art/craft skills – Occupation All, closes 28 Feb

Cumbrian charitable organisation Occupation All are looking for an Occupational Therapist, with considerable skills in art and/or craft, to lead some art and education groups with elderly dementia patients, staff and possibly families.

Must be on the DBS update service (or willing to undergo a fresh DBS check). Must have own professional insurance (or willing to take out own insurance for the project)

There will be a total of 12 sessions run across the Furness/ South Lakes area – exact locations TBC.

Session dates to be confirmed with your own availability – but likely April, May & June

Each session will last about 4/5 hours with set up, session and tidy up. There may also be some educational work around Dementia with the co-facilitator. OT will also have to provide record keeping notes on the group after each session.

Renumeration total is £2400 which includes planning, travel, and delivery of all sessions.  This is a self-employed role, and you will have to pay your own tax/NI.

Applications welcome from both experienced and newly qualified OT’s. If you are interested, please email CV and a covering letter explaining why you are interested in the role.

Contact: Kath, kath@hw-services.co.uk

Ceramicist – Granby Workshop, closes 14 Mar

Granby Workshop is a Community Interest Company based in the L8 area of Liverpool. They are a committed and enthusiastic team making high quality handmade ceramics for projects and interiors all over the world.

They’re looking to hire a ceramicist to join their team in making handmade ceramics. As well as taking a hands on approach to improving the quality and efficiency of the batch production process, this role will also support the research and development of new products at Granby Workshop.

The full job pack can be found here

If you would like to apply, please send a covering letter, CV and a portfolio of work preferably in pdf format to jobs@granbyworkshop.co.uk by noon on the closing date of Monday 14 March 2022.

Interviews will be held in the two weeks commencing 21 March 2022, in person, at Granby Workshop.

Performing Arts Technician – Manchester Enterprise Academy, closes 13 Mar

An exciting opportunity for a Performing Arts Technician for Manchester Enterprise Academy (MEA) within the Visual and Performing Arts departments.  Experience in these areas would be an advantage.

Application procedure:

  • Please note they do not accept CVs
  • Applications will only be accepted on the TES application form
  • References will be applied for at the shortlisting stage
  • Applications may not be considered if they are incomplete

The closing date for this role is midnight, Sunday 13 March 2022. Interviews will take place Thursday 17 March 2022. 

Apply: https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/performing-arts-technician-manchester-1574020

All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. They will ensure that all recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

They are an Equal Opportunities Employer and positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation

Curator – Lancaster Arts, closes 13 Mar

The role of Curator for Lancaster Arts is at the centre of their artistic programme.

You will work closely with the Director to realise their potential as a combined arts National Portfolio Organisation, situated within a leading university which is committed to interdisciplinary practice and civic engagement.

Their programme integrates a presentational programme with commissions and artist development, all within annual themes. You will be highly committed to developing collaborative practices and new partnerships that build on working values and the support of new and brave artistic practice.

The Curator is responsible for the visual arts programme, be this in the Peter Scott Gallery, the campus or in the city of Lancaster and Morecambe, as well as with regional, national, and international partners. This role oversees the care and maintenance of the University Art Collection, ensuring its sustainability and capability to flourish.

Lancaster Arts has been part of the combined arts portfolio of Arts Council England for almost 15 years with a renowned reputation for cutting edge arts practice in all art forms. They are proud of our support for artists exploring new directions for their work and fostering new relationships with arts professionals, colleagues at the university and particularly with people who have nothing to do with the arts.

You will have a high degree of relational skills for working with a broad range of people, and a track record for maintaining ongoing relationships with artists and producers over a period of time. Please visit their website to learn more.

They are a friendly small team but need to better reflect the rich diversity of the northwest. They particularly welcome applicants with lived experience of disability and people from groups that are currently under-represented in the arts sector. They will guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria.  Interviews 23rd/24th March.

If you would like a brief informal discussion about this role, please contact Director, Jocelyn Cunningham at jocelyn@lancasterarts.org

Head of Development – The Reader, closes 4 Mar

As a key member of the leadership team at The Reader, this role is responsible for securing the income and building the partnerships that The Reader needs to sustain and grow its work.

This role leads the Development Team to achieve their challenging income targets across a diverse income portfolio of grants, commissions, individual, corporate and event fundraising.

They are looking for a strategic thinker who is a well-organised, target-driven leader, who can demonstrate income generation experience and great communication skills.  Whether you bring experience from fundraising, public sector commissioning or commercial sales, they’re looking for someone who can spot, shape and secure new opportunities with a range of supporters across a range of sectors.

As Head of Development, you’ll need to be a great relationship builder with both internal and external stakeholders, and you’ll also be a translator – able to shape up funding propositions from other people’s ideas, developing compelling narratives to secure support for them.

They’re looking for a collaborative person who has experience working across departments, because you’ll need to build effective relationships with a range of teams to do this job, including within Shared Reading, Programmes, Evaluation, Social Enterprise, communications and Finance teams.

Download the application pack to view a full job description and application form here. Please send completed applications to laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk.

Closing date: 4 March

Town Hall Manager – Liverpool City Council, closes 25 Feb

Liverpool Town Hall is a stunning grade 1 listed building in the heart of the City, joining St. George’s Hall and Croxteth County Park to form ‘Liverpool City Halls’.

You will be the Manager of their Town Hall, strategically and tactically directing all activities that take place, making this venue a shining example of commercial and operational excellence, underpinning the City Plan.

You will have overall accountability for the Town Hall operational delivery, customer experience and commercial performance, ensuring the operation is aligned to a new centralised approach to delivery. You will ensure that the civic programme and commercial operations are effectively aligned.

You will understand the importance of positive team culture and how to drive and influence this; you’ll be friendly and ready to really get stuck in, without being afraid to drive change by leading and inspiring the team to deliver exceptional service and commercial results, across a broad portfolio of events and activities.

The successful applicant will:

  • Be an adaptable people and business leader who can implement structure, whilst regularly flexing and problem solving
  • You will be able to work under pressure and make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment
  • You will set clear objectives, timelines, goals and targets for the Town Hall team, cultivating and utilising skills and strengths where they will add most value to the business, at the Town Hall and across City Hall venues
  • You will have a strong commercial acumen, balancing operations and budgets across multiple activity strands
  • You will work closely with the Head of Venue Operations, Sales Development and the Venue Operations team, to develop an annual programme of commercial activity, identifying new products and innovative income streams to grow the Town Hall bottom line
  • Processes are at the core of operations; you will weed out work-intensive processes and unnecessary admin so that operational performance is prioritised.

The needs of this busy venue are fluid; this is not a 9am-5pm / Monday to Friday role. You agree to work flexibly over a 7 day week when required, which may include unsociable hours, weekends and bank holidays.

Whilst your primary place of work will be the Town Hall, you will work flexibly across St. Georges Hall, Croxteth Country Park and Culture Liverpool to support the delivery of scheduled activity when required.

You will take personal pride and maintain a high standard of professional appearance whilst on duty.  This role is not Agile and you will be required to be predominantly based in the work place.

Role and Responsibilities

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

You will lead and inspire the civic and venue operations team to deliver exceptional service and commercial results across a broad portfolio of events and activities in our City owned Town Hall.

You will also ensure the operations are aligned with our other city Halls to ensure a centralised and standardised approach to delivery.

You will be an adaptable people and business leader who can implement structure, whilst regularly flexing and problem solving. You will be able to work under pressure and make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Management

  • You will have overall accountability for Town Hall operational delivery, sales, marketing, customer experience and commercial performance.
  • You will be a strong team manager, with the ability to lead, manage and motivate a team to undertake all activity to standards that always exceed expectation.
  • You will work closely with the Head of Venue Operations, the Sales and Venue Operations team to ensure the smooth transition of Sales to Operations for all commercial activity and events within Town Hall
  • You will set clear objectives, timelines, goals and targets for the Town Hall team managing all HR & personnel activity
  • You will provide senior management reports, committee reports, cabinet reports etc. relating to Town Hall
  • You will develop & maintain excellent working relationships with senior stakeholders
  • You will be the point of contact for all written and verbal enquiries relating to Town Hall, whether they are commercial, operational or political

Venue

  • You will ensure robust Standard Operating Procedures cross all areas
  • You will support and review the delivery of all venue activity
  • You will ensure both ‘front of house’ and ‘back of house’, are immaculate at all times
  • You will work in conjunction with the Facilities Manager to ensure that any identified maintenance issues are effectively carried out with specific regard to the terms & conditions of the building’s Listed status.
  • You will provide operational support to City Halls and the wider Culture Liverpool team for the delivery of any activity, as and when business needs require

Commercial / Financial

  • You will contribute to the development of an annual programme of commercial activity identifying new products and innovative income streams that will grow the bottom line
  • You will ensure that Town Hall operates within the allocated and identified budgets
  • You will review and consider the viability of commercial activity
  • You will efficiently deploy personnel according to the events taking place

Customer Service

  • You will have a personal drive, passion and determination for continuous improvement of all activity taking place within the Hall
  • You will advise Head of Venue Operations of changes or innovations that will improve operations within the Town Hall and across all City Hall Venues

Health & Safety

  • You will ensure a robust process is in place to sign off on all activity taking place within a venue environment and ensure all Emergency Plans and Business Continuity Plans are robust and staff are appropriately trained to respond.
  • You will plan, implement and record all staff training, security, safety and evacuation drills and exercises.
  • You will ensure compliance with all Health & Safety requirements applicable to the workplace and commercial activity taking place
  • You will be a designated First Aid responder whilst on duty.
Skills and Experience

Qualifications and Training

  1. Professional qualification or extensive experience in a relevant field such as Venue / Operations / hospitality / project management*
  2. H&S qualified / experienced within an operational or venue environment *
  3. Full clean Driving Licence
  4. SIA accreditation will form part of the role once in post

Experience

  1. You will have extensive experience as an Operational Manager from within a venue or hospitality background.*
  2. You will have proven management experience of leading a team, with a confident, engaging and emotionally intelligent approach.*
  3. You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience of engaging at a senior level with internal and external stake-holders.*
  4. Experience of creating, implementing and monitoring processes that ensure the effective management of commercial, financial, personnel and building operations.*
  5. Experience of developing Standard Operating Procedures for internal and external service providers to adhere to

Skills/Abilities

  1. Ability to lead and manage a team to a very high standard *
  2. The ability to pioneer new approaches to service delivery, finding creative solutions to complex problems*
  3. Financially aware and commercially astute, ensuring best value is delivered by management and control of budgets and production of financial management reports.*
  4. The ability to review Event Management Plans and participate in any events that Town Hall is leading on, as required.

Commitment

  1. An understanding of and a personal commitment to the Vision and Values of Liverpool City Council.
  2. An enthusiastic, self-motivated, positive and professional manager with an adaptable, flexible approach to work.

OTHER

  • The needs of our busy venues are fluid; working in this role is not a 9am-5pm / Monday to Friday role. You agree to work flexibly over a 7 day week when required, which may include unsociable hours, weekends and bank holidays; this will be allocated on a roster basis
  • Whilst you may be allocated a primary place of work, you agree to work flexibly across St George’s Hall, Liverpool Town Hall and Croxteth Hall to support the delivery of all scheduled activity
  • As a direct reflection of our business, you will take personal pride and maintain a high standard of professional appearance whilst on duty.
  • This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive. It is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility; it is inevitable over time that the emphasis of this job will change, as business needs evolve

CITY COUNCIL STANDARD

Develop the City Council’s commitment to equal opportunities and to promote non-discriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken.

It must be understood that every employee has a responsibility to ensure that their work complies with all statutory requirements with Standing Orders and Financial Regulations of the City Council and to ensure that all work functions are undertaken in accordance with health and safety legislation, codes of practice and the City Council’s safety plan.

Available documents: Job Description and Person Specification, see here.

Project Coordinator – Brand New World schools programme, 2021-22, closes 7 Mar

This role is for a practitioner with long-term experience of coordinating arts and cultural projects and programmes with schools.

The person will need to be available for 15 days between Monday 21st and Friday 30th September 2022 to support six schools through the final phase of their Brand New World visual arts education programme. The role is to:

  • Keep in touch with teachers, artists and two practitioners (an Artistic Lead and Arts Award Adviser) to monitor progress.
  • Support everyone to keep on track with: creating artworks for an exhibition at the International Slavery Museum in June/July 2022; preparing for the Arts Award moderation (date to be confirmed); providing evaluation evidence.
  • Monitor and track spending against budget and forward invoices to LLP Adminstrator.
  • Liaise with National Museums Liverpool to organise an exhibition and launch of the artworks.
  • Write a short evaluation/spending report at the end of the project.

The fee is £3750 @ £250 per day and hours can be completed flexibly to suit the needs & availability of the successful applicant and project partners.

How to apply

Please refer to the Project Coordinator brief which you can download here.

You then need to complete this online application form which gives you the opportunity to upload your CV, with two named referees, and demonstrate that you have the skills, knowledge, experience and attributes required for this commission.

The deadline to apply is Monday 7th March 2022, 10.00. They will be in touch the following day to invite shortlisted applicants to interview on Monday 14th March (time to be confirmed). If you have any questions, please contact Alice Demba: alice@liverpoollearningpartnership.com

Curator of Photographic Collections, National Museums Liverpool, closes 10 March

This job is based at The Archives Centre at the Maritime Museum on Liverpool’s historic waterfront and involves working with an extensive and important photographic collection for the benefit of the public both in Liverpool and beyond.

National Museums Liverpool’s photographic collections are large so you need strong skills in collection management.  The collections are fabulous and they want them to be seen so you will need to undertake, manage and encourage their use in the widest sense.  You will need to show knowledge or interest in relevant areas such as copyright and digital preservation.

If you think you match the job description and our organisation ethos then apply with your CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the person specification.

Find out more and apply here.

Exhibitions Project Registrar, National Museums Liverpool, closes 14 March

National Museums Liverpool are looking for an Exhibitions Project Registrar with experience of working in a museum or art gallery environment and who has experience in coordinating large-scale international touring exhibitions.

As the Exhibitions Project Registrar, you will be responsible for undertaking activities required to support a loan of objects from NML’s collections which, will tour several host venues in China.

You will use your strong planning and organizational skills to formulate and execute procedures associated with a touring exhibition, working flexibly and to tight deadlines. You will work as a team with colleagues internally i.e., the Head of Touring Exhibitions, Collections Care teams, and external organizations to successfully prepare the objects for the loan.

If you think you match the job description and our organisation ethos then apply with your CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the person specification.

Find out more and apply here.