Wed, 12 Feb 2025 published - Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Job Summary
A confident heritage professional with curation and marketing skills to produce materials and events in stage 2 of a successful heritage project. The role is 3 days a week (22.5 hours/week).
Job Description
Cycles of Change is a participatory heritage project documenting our charity's history in supporting people and communities over 21 years in an ever-changing urban environment. The project has met its targets for its first year. In the final six months of the project, the Manager will help curate research with stakeholders, create/commission heritage materials and run events and channels to ensure the project's heritage outputs are shared in its 21st birthday year with new as well as existing audiences.
Job Requirements
The role will involve:
1. Working with trained volunteers to complete oral history recording with local people (5 oral histories outstanding).
2. Taking forward the heritage walk route that has been co-produced with volunteers, producing a heritage walk map, and managing a guided walks programme.
3. Assessing the heritage outputs (archival, visual, oral) for suitability for digitisation.
4. Producing events at three local venues, including curating an exhibition/event to celebrate the charity's 21st anniversary year.
5. Working with a freelance evaluator.
6. Contributing to the end of project report.
Job Responsibilities
Project delivery:
1. To ensure accessibility and diversity principles are embedded in project outputs.
2. To ensure heritage material is produced within a quality framework, including copyright guidance.
3. To monitor actual outputs against scheduled outputs to the CEO on a regular basis and propose solutions for any variances.
Volunteer management and support:
1. To manage, motivate and support the project's heritage volunteers, in line with best practice and Newham New Deal Partnership's volunteer policy and procedures.
2. To contribute to the delivery of any further volunteer training, and coordinate any further external training for volunteers.
3. To ensure that any positive comments and/or complaints against/by volunteers are acted upon swiftly and reported as required by our internal procedures.
4. To support any social media work experience placement/volunteer.
Community engagement:
1. To maintain positive and constructive working relationships with volunteers, staff, participants and partners.
Job Overview
* Job Title: Heritage Manager - Cycles of Change
Please apply by c.v. and covering letter, explaining your availability and start date. Some remote working can be accommodated, but the role requires a degree of face-to-face work with volunteers, participants, and other office staff.
If you would like to discuss the role, please email giving your availability.
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