art teacher Great Yarmouth, England
Job description
Refugee Arts and Culture Hub Manager in Great Yarmouth
About Us
The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association is an award-winning charity founded by Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, who arrived as a refugee in the back of a refrigerated container with his young family in 1999. We promote social and economic integration of an increasing number of Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugees. We use a community development ethos to support the development of their potential within a mutually supportive framework and we work with a wide range of partners to reach vulnerable and isolated individuals and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.
Our experience and the quality of our provision is evidenced through our many achievements, including:
- Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2018, awarded in recognition of the excellent work and central role that volunteers play in the delivery of the essential services run by the ACAA
- Talent Match Mark Youth Friendly Gold Award from Youth Employment UK
- The charity's founder, Dr Nasimi, was awarded an MBE for services to refugees by King Charles III in the New Year Honours List 2023.
Project Description
This project plans to increase volunteering and reduce chronic loneliness among young Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugee women (aged 16-34) by launching an Arts and Culture Hub in Great Yarmouth. The programme will empower 160 refugee women over a two year period (80 per year) by enabling them to move out of their crammed conditions in bridging hotels/temporary accommodation and participate in various artistic and cultural activities, strengthen social connections, preserve their identity, connect with others of similar interests and from diverse cultural backgrounds, build support networks, and reduce isolation.
We will run two sessions per week. Each session will last two hours. Each session will be attended by 25-30 participants who will take part in a variety of activities including:
- Music sessions – singing in native languages and listening to folkloric music
- Poetry sessions – reading poems and writing unconventional styles of poetry including blackout poetry, postcard poetry, found poetry, visual poetry, and spoken word.
- Art sessions – mixed media art, experimental painting, collaborative art, upcycled art, and mosaics.
- Film and media sessions – film screenings and open-dialogue film discussions.
- Reading and storytelling sessions – themed book readings, read-aloud sessions, book exchanges, and community storytelling.
Key Duties
- Recruits qualified sessional trainers
- Recruit project volunteers
- Organise monthly cultural events
- Liaise and build links with local groups and public services, local authorities, Job Centres, GP’s and other Arts and culture organisations
- Secure an accessible venue for the sessions
- Administer data monitoring and evaluation
- Overall responsibility for safeguarding and project outcomes
- Maintain and monitor project plans, schedules, budgets and expenditures
- Organise and facilitate internal meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes / actions log and manage all logistics for meetings where appropriate
- Produce quarterly evaluation reports for the project and liaise with funder on a regular basis
Requirements
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Excellent organisational, planning and coordination skills
- Confident in communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds and from all seniority levels
- Competency in MS Office
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team and focus on multiple tasks at the same time
- Ability to manage own workload to meet tight deadlines
- Advanced experience of managing projects from conception to completion and evaluation
- Exceptional organisational, attention to detail and resource planning skills Ability to produce engaging documents and reports and communicate complex information clearly
- Excellent innovative problem-solving skills
- Have, or willing to undergo, a DBS check
- 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects for charities
Job Types: Part-time, Contract, Permanent
Contract length: 21 months
Part-time hours: 25 per week
Salary: £1,600.00 per month
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
