Company Description
Role summary
* Job title: Creative Community Builder, Culture Within Newham
* Place of work: Community Links, 105 Barking Road, London, E16 4HQ (working at least 3 days per week in the office)
* Hours of work: Full-time (37 hours per week)
* Contract duration: Fixed-term to 31 July 2025 (to cover secondment), start date as soon as possible
* Salary/Grade: £33,550 pro rata per annum
* Reports to: Programme Co-Director, Culture Within Newham
* Responsible for: Sessional staff, commissioned artists, community producers, interns, and volunteers
* Level of screening: Enhanced DBS
* Annual leave: 28 days annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata)
* Application deadline: 9am on Thursday 23 January 2025
About Culture Within Newham
Culture Within Newham is an Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places (CPP) programme, based in the borough of Newham, in East London. Newham has a large proportion of young residents and is the most culturally diverse borough in the UK, which inspired its aim of becoming a more vibrant and cultural place and to realise the creative potential in every Newham resident. The mission of the Culture Within Newham programme is to inspire community-led change in Newham in how creativity, arts, and culture are accessed, made, experienced and enjoyed.
Where you fit in
You will be joining a dynamic and passionate team of five people (making up 3.5FTE together). The purpose of the Creative Community Builder is partly as a community connector who builds relationships with local people and inspires them to take ownership of the cultural offer in their borough, and partly as a project producer who organises, manages and delivers cultural activities and events.
Key activities and responsibilities
Community engagement and co-creation:
* To design, manage and deliver activities and events that engage Newham residents in making, experiencing, curating or learning about arts, culture and creativity.
* To lead on elements of the Culture Within Newham programme and to contribute to setting out the overall programme, strategies and ways of working.
* To build and maintain a network of external relationships with different community groups across Newham.
* To listen to the needs and interests of local community groups and design activities and programmes in ways that fit these needs.
* To book, schedule and manage contractors, sessional staff, commissioned artists, community producers, and volunteers.
Community empowerment and development:
* To manage commission teams of artists, community members and/or arts organisations to develop their projects to the best quality.
* To design and run workshops and events that empower participants to generate and develop their own ideas for cultural and creative projects.
* To run and facilitate community panels and steering groups.
* To support artists and arts organisations in working in co-creative ways.
* To identify and contribute to increasing resources, opportunities, funding and partnership possibilities.
Marketing and evaluation:
* To locate and develop new audiences for Culture Within Newham’s activities.
* To commission documentation materials from communication contractors.
* To oversee the collection of evaluation data from audiences, partners and commissioned project teams.
Project management and administration:
* To monitor project budgets and timelines, draft project contracts, oversee project evaluations.
* To draft and prepare materials and planning for activities and events.
* To log and report on project activity.
Other:
* To travel across Newham to meet partners and build networks.
* To work within the strategies set out by the Culture Within Newham programme.
* Any other duties as may reasonably be expected for the effective delivery of the project.
Person specification
Skills and experience we are looking for:
* Substantial experience of working with a diverse range of communities.
* Substantial experience of planning, organising and delivering public-facing, community and/or cultural events.
* Experience of delivering community consultation, participation or co-creation projects.
* Excellent relationship-building skills in a variety of contexts.
* Good working knowledge of the borough of Newham.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Strong time-management and organisational skills.
* A good level of digital literacy.
Personal attributes we are looking for:
* A commitment to using cultural engagement to achieve social change.
* A positive and enthusiastic attitude towards new ideas and input from the community.
* An enterprising mind-set that shows initiative and flexibility.
* An accessible and inclusive approach to community engagement.
* A commitment to co-creation values of respect, equitability, diversity and kindness.
* Availability to occasionally work flexibly.
* Availability to travel around the borough of Newham.
How to apply
To apply, please use Catch22’s Smart Recruiters platform to submit your application, by uploading your CV and including a cover letter in the ‘Message to Hiring Manager’ field.
If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, you can email Loose Baker at loose.baker@culturewithin.org.uk.
Application deadline: 9am on Thursday 23 January 2025
Interviews: End of January
Start date: As soon as possible
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