Front of House Coordinator – Liverpool Biennial 2025, closes 26 Jan ’25

Liverpool Biennial are currently looking for a Front of House Coordinator and to join their team as they look towards Liverpool Biennial 2025.⁠

The Front of House Coordinator will have excellent management, personal and organisational skills, to lead on all aspects of front of house and visitor services for Liverpool Biennial 2025. ⁠

To apply, visit here
⁠Closing date: 26 January 2025⁠

Volunteer Coordinator – Liverpool Tool Library, closes 19 Jan ’25

Liverpool Tool Library are hiring! They’re seeking a volunteer co-ordinator (16 hours per week)

Are you: a people person – well organised – inclusive – a confident speaker – passionate

They’re looking for someone to: run shifts – support and grow their team of volunteers – do admin work – host events – interact with members and the public

If you’re interested please follow this link

CLOSING DATE – 19th January 5pm

Operations Assistant – The Beatles Story, closes 3 Jan ’25

Within your role as Operations Assistant, you will play a key role in supporting the Operations & Security Departments with day-to-day operations, gaining practical skills and knowledge in all aspects of Operations and Facilities Management. Under the guidance of experienced professionals, you’ll develop expertise in areas such as Health & Safety, Compliance, Maintenance and Security.

What They’re Looking For:

  • A genuine interest in pursuing a career in facilities management.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
  • A proactive and positive attitude, with a willingness to learn and grow.

What You’ll Gain:

  • A structured apprenticeship program leading to a recognised Facilities Management qualification (e.g., Level 3 ).
  • Practical, on-the-job experience in a supportive environment.
  • Mentoring from experienced Operations Manager.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development.
  • A chance to make a real impact with operations and the organisation.

How to Apply:

If you’re ready to kickstart your career in facilities management and join a team that values your growth and development, they’d love to hear from you!

Please visit their website and fill in the application form: https://www.beatlesstory.com/jobs/  by Friday 3rd January 2025.

Please note that any internal applicants will need to ensure that their immediate line manager is aware that they have applied for this vacancy.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please contact: humanresources@beatlesstory.com

Access Coordinator – Factory International, closes 5 Jan ’25

Factory International are looking for a talented Access Coordinator to join the team and support them to deliver an exceptional access offer for their visitors and artists at MIF25.

Job Description

Please note this is a fixed term role running until 31 July 2025. The role is anticipated to be 24 hours per week (January – June), 40 hours per week (July).

Every two years MIF brings the most exciting artists on the planet to Manchester to create innovative new work – from art and theatre, to music, dance and everything in-between.

Taking over their home in the heart of the city, Aviva Studios, and spreading out far across Greater Manchester, the MIF25 programme is their most ambitious yet and they’re looking for an Access Coordinator who can support their teams to deliver on their equally determined plans for access. This role will lead coordination of activity that directly contributes to the delivery of the access provision at MIF25.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 5 January

Cultural Enrichment Programme Coordinator – Venture Arts, closes 13 Jan ’25

Venture Arts is an award-winning visual arts organisation working with learning disabled and neurodivergent artists of all ages. Through studio programmes, exhibitions and collaborative projects, they remove barriers to the arts, put artists in the lead, champion neurodiversity and provide pathways for every individual to develop their creative identity.

Venture Arts equips people to succeed as artists, advocates, cultural workers, educators, curators and critics.

Their artists and their practice is central to their work, and their Cultural Enrichment Programme supports artists to undertake bespoke work placements that develop their experience, knowledge, confidence and employability skills.

This programme has seen people gain valuable work experience, whilst enriching cultural spaces. Some of our artists have gone on to gain long-term volunteer work and employment with cultural venues, and their long-term ambition is for this programme to support and prepare venues to employ learning-disabled people on a permanent basis.

This ground-breaking initiative has built strong and rich partnerships with venues including Manchester Museum, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, The Wellcome Collection, The National Football Museum, The British Museum, MIF, HOME and many more.

They are looking for an organised individual with a passion for the arts, who enjoys working with people and is skilled at supporting individuals to flourish. You will be a strong communicator who is able to cater information to different learning styles, as well as being confident in liaising with arts professionals.

This is a great opportunity to join a welcoming, supportive and passionate team.

For a full job description and to apply, please visit https://venturearts.org/vacancies/cepcoordinator/

Closing date: 13 January

Front of House Manager – Chethams School of Music, closes 7 Jan ’25

This role holder will manage our front of house experience, and take general operational responsibility for events, including oversight of risk assessments and venue health and safety.

You will be outgoing, efficient and well organised – a real people person who is able to manage our team of casual front of house staff, as well as liaising with and meeting the needs of our diverse range of clients and customers.

Being able to lead by example, the role holder will instil a happy but hardworking ethic for the ad hoc team of Event Staff and Duty Managers, and support and nurture their team of volunteers. You will also need to be able to step into any of the event delivery roles you manage if necessary.

A flexible attitude is essential as this role will involve working some evening and weekend shifts for events, but your office presence and engagement with the team during weekday daytimes will be key to your success in the role. You will be a vital part of the busy team that plans and delivers events across the site, and you will contribute positively to the strategic and financial planning, and to the delivery of our busy and growing programme of activity across all our venues.

Sustainability will be at the heart of everything that you do, and you will have great care for the way we present our venue – both in terms of front of house customer experience, as well as front of house bar and backstage functions – including sourcing local and engaging products.

You will help attract a diverse and exceptional staff team, and successfully oversee the delivery of events, including stewarding, duty managing, box office, housekeeping, bar facilities, and day to day health and safety, risk assessments and other operational arrangements.

Paid SCP 21-23 £30,322 – £31,955 FTE per annum pro rata
Work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 7 January

General Manager – Sheba Arts, closes 30 Jan ’25

This post is currently offered as a fixed term contract until March 2027, however our intention would be to extend this role based on future funding. This contract includes a two month notice period.

Probationary period: three months with a review by the Board of Directors. The notice period is 2 weeks during the probation period and two months afterwards.

Benefits: Pro rata holiday plus 3 Christmas days. Pension scheme of 3% Location: Salford, Travel across Greater Manchester may be required from time to time

Contract duration: 2 years with the intention to extend dependent on funding.

Closing date: 30th January 2025

Interviews: February 2025

Start date: April 2025

Enquiries: Fereshteh Mozaffari -(Fereshteh@shebaarts.com) Responsible to: CEO and The Board of Directors

To apply, visit here

Producer – 20 Stories High, closes 3 Feb ’25

20 Stories High believe that “everybody’s got a story to tell… and their own way of telling it.”

They create bold, excellent theatre experiences with culturally diverse, working-class communities, emerging artists, and world-class professionals to tell stories that bring joy, empower, and enable social change.

Their experiences happen in a wide variety of spaces: from theatres, schools and youth clubs to digital spaces, living rooms and doorsteps.

Their heart is in Liverpool, but their reach is universal.

Producer
(37.5 Hours – Full Time, fixed term, 10 month contract)

The Producer is part of the team responsible for managing, supporting & delivering projects across the 20SH programme. They provide internal leadership for the company and its spectrum of projects and are an important external face of the company, developing partnerships which allow 20SH to thrive.

They line manage the Youth Worker and Assistant Producer.

The Producer will work closely with the Youth Worker, ensuring young people are safe and supported throughout the participation programme , 20SH staff, freelancers and young people.

The Producer reports to the CEO/Executive Director.

It is important to them that the Producer shares the company’s values, and is committed to contributing to their developing practice in terms of both wellbeing and EDIA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Activism).

For those interested in applying they will be holding an informal group zoom meeting so you can meet the company and find out a little bit more of what they do, who they are and why they do it.

It’s also an opportunity for you to ask questions about the role or the process. This will take place: Tuesday 14th January 5pm-5.45pm
Please email recruitment@20storieshigh.org.uk if you’d like to attend.

Application Deadline: 9am, Monday 3rd February 2025

Shortlisting: Successful applicants will be invited to interview by the end of Tuesday 4th February 2025

Interviews: will be held Monday 17th February 2025 at 20 Stories High’s office, Toxteth TV.

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For more info and application forms, please visit: https://www.20storieshigh.org.uk/producer-recruitment/

Advisory Board Members – St Helens Library Service’s Arts in Libraries Programme, closes 3 Jan ’25

St Helens Library Service is one of 17 Library Services across England to be awarded National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) status by Arts Council England (ACE) and we have been delivering its established and Award-winning Arts in Libraries programme since 2018.

Following vacancies arising in their current board, St Helens Library Service is now seeking a small number of Advisory Board members that can bring one or more of the following skillsets:

A marketing and /or audience development specialist, particularly someone with experience of attracting and developing audiences in areas of disadvantage.

A funding specialist or someone who may have knowledge of external fundraising.

Someone with knowledge of environmental issues and how they connect to the arts.

A young person who may have an ambition to become a future arts leader or to work in the creative arts and would like the opportunity to learn how an arts organisation operates.

Someone who may have knowledge of St Helens and especially someone who has experience of working with, or lived experience of, our specific target audiences – these being, young people, D/deaf and/or disabled people or residents living in areas of disadvantage within St Helens.

Someone who may be a Library user and/or understands the possibilities that working in a library can bring.

A creative practitioner who may be interested in learning about how an arts organisation operates, in being involved in arts governance and keen to contribute experience from the perspective of a creative practitioner. They are particularly interested in individuals from a performing arts discipline.

They are committed to broadening the diversity of their Advisory Board and although we welcome all applications, the Board is under-represented in relation to the profile of the borough, and they would encourage people from the following areas of protected characteristic groups to consider applying: LGBTQI+/ Age (particularly under 26)/ ethnicity/disability and people with financial /economic barriers. They would particularly welcome applications from people from across these groups to bring a wider perspective to the development of their programme and engagement work.

The board has a strategic, non-executive function and Board membership is voluntary. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed if required. The board meets four times per year, usually online and there will be occasional other meetings or activities that they undertake, and board members will be expected to come along to occasional performances activities within the programme.

Application Form: (Please note these opens into an online application Form). https://forms.office.com/e/FtSGg3Ax7u

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Please follow the link for the Recruitment Pack – https://artsinlibraries.sthelens.gov.uk/article/11753/Advisory-Board-Members-Wanted

Programme Coordinator ( Maternity Cover) – Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, closes 13 Jan ’25

Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of Cumbria’s premier museum?

Job Description

They have an exciting opportunity for a Programme Coordinator to join the dedicated and dynamic team delivering Project Tullie, the Museum’s major capital development programme. This fixed-term maternity cover post will lead on the monitoring and reporting against the project programme and finances.

Working in close collaboration with colleagues across the Museum, as well as designers, contractors, funders and external partners, this is a great moment to play a pivotal role in the delivery of this transformational project for Carlisle and Cumbria.

If you’re a proactive team player with attention to detail and a good head for numbers, they’d love to hear from you.

Purpose of the Role

  • To drive the development and delivery of Project Tullie through a range of duties including effective coordination of project workload, procurement of expert advisers and financial monitoring and reporting, working independently on assigned work as well as supporting the work of the Head of Strategy and Capital Programme (HSCP) and the wider project team.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 13 January 2025