Community Post Type: Jobs

The Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre are now looking for a dedicated person to join their inspiring and inclusive team. They have flexible working arrangements to suit a range of people’s circumstances.

The Chief Executive Officer will provide leadership, strategic and operational management at executive officer level. This will entail planning, developing and implementing change to enable KIMC to deliver its stated mission, vision and objectives.

Duties will also include inspiring and motivating staff to provide excellent services to all stakeholders and assist the Board of Trustees to develop and implement a business plan that will ensure the ongoing financial viability of KIMC and be responsible for its implementation. You will be expected to provide innovative and creative solutions to ensure the ongoing success of KIMC.

Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre is committed to equality of opportunity for all.

For more details and an application form, please email: bookings@kuumbaimani.org.uk.

Closing date: 11 December 2023 at 10am. Interviews: 18 December 2023.

Collective Encounters is seeking a participatory theatre maker or artist (any discipline) to lead an exciting short-term project working with a range of parent and family groups to share experiences and influence services in Liverpool.

You will have excellent participatory arts credentials and an innovative and ethical approach to working with communities to co-produce knowledge.

Key Information:

Contract type: Freelance

Hours: 18 days over 4-5 months

Fee: £3,420, plus expenses for travel within Liverpool City Region

Location: Home working, with workshop and event delivery around Liverpool City Centre and Toxteth

Expected start date: December 2023

Deadline: Please apply by 10am, 11th December 2023. Interviews will be held online on 12th December 2023.

For more information and to apply, please click here to download an application pack. (Large print application pack available here)

The Volunteer & Work Experience Coordinator is responsible for all aspects of our volunteer and work experience programmes, from recruitment and training, to placement planning, experience and recognition.

Full job pack can be found https://issuu.com/oddarts/docs/job_pack_volunteer_work_experience_coordinator_?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ – here

To apply for this role please send within one document the following information:

Name and contact details

Position applying for

Up to date CV

Cover Letter – Why are you the best person for this job? This is the most important question. Please answer this by showing how you meet the requirements of the person specification and main duties.

References: Please provide two references. (Contacted after offer)

You can submit the above information in video format if you prefer.

If you have any additional accessibility needs please let us know by emailing info@oddarts.co.uk so we can support your application.

Applications must be submitted by 4pm on Monday December 18th, 2023 to info@oddarts.co.uk.

Please header/title the email ‘Application Volunteer & Work Experience Coordinator’.

To raise the bar, drive performance at School, Faculty and University level, and build on our national and international reputation in research, we are looking to make a key professorial appointment.

If you have an international reputation of your own and have made a sustained, significant and original impact on knowledge in your field, this is your opportunity to join us as Professor of Digital Arts in the School of Digital Arts (SODA) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

About the School of Digital Arts (SODA)

SODA represents a £35m investment into the workspaces, networks, teaching and research that will empower the next generation of creative practitioners at the intersection of storytelling, technology and innovation.

About the role

The role of Professor is one of the highest academic distinctions conferred by the University and post holders are expected to make a powerful contribution to academic citizenship and leadership, as well as to knowledge exchange.

About you

Your in depth understanding and experience within digital storytelling should include immersive and interactive storytelling through virtual production, AI, XR, AR, VR, game engines and/or other emergent technologies.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 1 January

As Project Manager, you will manage and facilitate the Neuro-Moves dance class programme.

This involves booking sessions, venues, and tutors, and working with our locally-based partners to recruit participants. You will be expected to work closely with the LPM management team. Some travel is expected within the Lancashire region. The Neuro-Moves Project Manager will work for 36 weeks per year for the next 2 years.

This is a remote working/home-based position, with some team meetings (both in-person and online) expected. The LPM team are based in Lancaster.

Please apply with CV and cover letter to LPMDanceforhealth@gmail.com. Any queries can be emailed to the same address.

Closing date: 30 December

Z-arts is looking for hosts for our brand-new immersive experience, ‘100 Stories Hotel’.

We run both public and school’s sessions and expect our hosts, entitled Story Explorer’s to deliver a high-quality experience this includes delivering a storytelling session in character at the start of the experience and to facilitate play once guests are in the experience. Alongside this, the Story Explorer role requires you to work independently on each performance and reset the play space after each session.

Story Explorer Criteria:

– 18 years and over

– Have experience and an interest in working with children and families.

– Have good availability particularly at weekends and during school holidays.

– Be willing to obtain a DBS with Z-arts

– Be willing to attend training and review sessions.

– This role will be offered on a casual basis as per a rota and will be paid at £10.90 per hour, this is in line with the current Real Living Wage.

Our activities reflect our audiences, and we aim to represent all the different communities in our area.

– Z-arts is an antiracist organisation.

– We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.

– We practice inclusivity and accessibility and are learning how to embed trans inclusivity across all we do.

-Z-arts is welcoming to all people who do not discriminate against others.

– We acknowledge all protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 – including age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race,religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation recognising socio-economic status and class as a thread that intersects all of these.

– As a learning organisation, Z-arts is always open to change.

We are committed to representing people with protected characteristics and welcome applications from everyone.

To apply or for an informal chat about the role please send a CV/Spotlight link and information about your practice to education@z-arts.org by Friday 19th January 2024.

Focusing primarily on projects at IWM North, with occasional travel to other IWM sites, you will work to create compelling and audience-centred new interpretation, project managing a range of small and medium-sized projects.

You will also manage the maintenance and updates to existing interpretation in the permanent Main Exhibition Space (MES), and provide support to the Exhibitions and Interpretation Manager for our temporary exhibitions programme.

Your duties will include:

1. Project manage all aspects of small and medium sized projects led by the Exhibitions, Interpretation and Design team including:2. Managing updates and maintenance of galleries, museum displays, interactives and AV installations including scheduling, content selection, budgeting, appointing contractors and managing internal resources.

3. Project manage and deliver new Big Picture Shows and Downtime within the MES, working with Curatorial and AV teams, and when necessary, external creatives and producers.

4. Providing project support to Exhibitions and Interpretation Managers, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation. Including answering public enquiries.

5. Liaising and discussing any new incoming loans with Collections Registration and highlighting potential onsite issues concerning existing loans directly to Collections Registration team.

6. Clearing copyrights and other licences. Manage the copyright database for every temporary exhibition and the MES and ensure copyright licence renewals are up to date.

7. Place orders to IWM photo archive and chase progress; organise photography of newly opened exhibitions and permanent galleries and add images to the central exhibition records.

8. Gather and collate internal exhibition review feedback following the closure of each exhibition or completion of project.

9. Assist with couriers during installation and de-installation periods if required.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 8 January

The Technical Director & Head of Production will report to the Director & CEO and work closely with Head of Programme, Head of Film Strategy and Creative Producer: Visual Arts in delivering the artistic aims of the organisation through the programme of presented, produced and co-produced work.

You will also contribute to the development of the organisation’s strategic priorities and lead on key aspects where appropriate. Working with the Executive Director and Director of Finance you will be key to ensuring high quality, cost effective and safe delivery of our programme. The Technical Director & Head of Production is a member of the Executive Team and will be an active role in supporting the wider leadership team at HOME.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 12 January

The Met is an innovative organisation situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. We are unique in the breadth of work we present and our ability to nurture artists and develop audiences. We present a mix of live music, theatre and comedy alongside running community workshops, a recording studio and outreach programme and a creative business hub as well as running festivals in the borough.

They are seeking casual events staff to join our busy team. The Met is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee governed by its charitable objects and Memorandum and Articles of Association. The Met has a turnover of circa £1million and a permanent staff of 17 and 5 casual staff. We work with over 100 volunteers every year through our festivals and events work. The Met is an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

Purpose of the Role

To support and assist the events team at The Met. This will entail providing a warm welcome to our audiences. It will also include some bar and serving work.

To Apply: Please go to our website for a full application pack at www.themet.org.uk/jobs

Closing date: 31 December

As a Creative Learning Practitioner, you will plan, deliver, and evaluate weekly workshops as part of Storyhouse’s thriving partner schools’ programme, and deliver sessions with a variety of Storyhouse Youth Theatre groups, with children aged between 5 and 17 years old.

You will work with 3 schools on a regular basis, delivering regular workshops based around Storyhouse’s programme and the schools’ curriculum.

Your workshops in schools and at Storyhouse will foster a fun and inclusive environment, affording the young people the opportunity to develop a variety of skills, build confidence, work creatively and collaboratively with other young people, and learn from creative professionals.

This role will suit those with substantial experience delivering creative learning and performing arts for young people, ideally within formal education.

The role will be based at 3 different schools, 1 half day per week each, and 2 days based at Storyhouse, Chester.

To apply, see here

Closing date: 17 December