sales coordinator Warwick, West Midlands, England
Job description
About Us and the Role
About Shout Out for the Arts
Shout Out for the Arts – Warwickshire is the name for Warwickshire’s Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP). An LCEP is a group of local partners, organisations and individuals who work together to support children and young people to fulfil their creative potential and access high-quality cultural experiences.
Shout Out for the Arts is a youth led partnership with a youth board and students in schools called Arts Ambassadors. They aim to give children and young people in Warwickshire a voice to ‘shout’ for access to arts and culture. Current partner organisations on the LCEP include Child Friendly Warwickshire, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Heritage and Culture Warwickshire, Warwickshire Libraries, Motionhouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and Warwickshire County Council.
The next 2 years is a period of development for Shout Out for the Arts. Having completed 12 months of pilot activity, Shout Out for the Arts wants to build upon its successes and work towards creating more local youth board across Warwickshire.
To learn more about Shout Out for the Arts visit the website; shoutoutforthearts.co.uk
The Role
The coordinator’s role is to deliver the activity plan in the Shout Out for the Arts Strategy. Over the next 2 years, Shout Out for the Arts has a clear aim to establish local youth boards in Rugby Borough and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough.
Establishing the Rugby board will involve working closely with Rugby Art Gallery and Museum to build a network of organisations and individuals with the capacity and priority to support young people on a youth board. The coordinator will lead on the recruitment of the young people to a youth board. They will then work in partnership with Rugby Art Gallery and Museum to facilitate the development of the youth board, supporting the young people to become young producers, using arts and culture to shout out for what’s important to them.
We see this as a two-year process with the outcome being a functioning board of young people supported by a network of cultural organisations and individuals in Rugby and the wider county of Warwickshire.
In Nuneaton and Bedworth the youth board creation is connected to the Creative Explorer’s project, part of a programme funded by Arts Council England and Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council. A network of organisations and individuals who can support the young people already exists. The coordinator will need to work within this network and bring in additional organisations and individuals. The Creative Explorer’s programme is funding Shout Out for the Arts to create a youth board to ensure youth voice is part of the programme.
The development of the Nuneaton and Bedworth youth board is an 18 month project.
The successful candidate will have a track record of building partnerships and networks. They will need to act as an advocate for young people, supporting the aims of the Shout Out for the Arts partnership. The coordinator will need to manage their own workload and be comfortable with remote working. Experience of working with young people is essential, some youth or community development work experience would be beneficial. Previous knowledge and experience of the arts and cultural sector in Warwickshire is not essential.
This is a grant funded post being managed by Heritage and Culture Warwickshire, part of Warwickshire County Council. The post holder will be expected to travel and work in locations in Rugby and Nuneaton and Bedworth. The post is offered as a two-year fixed term contract, working three days a week. For the first 18 months of the contract, 2 of these days will be focused on the project in Nuneaton and Bedworth. The post holder will be able to determine their working days as Warwickshire County Council operates a flexible working policy. The post will be line managed by the Senior Learning and Community Engagement Officer for Heritage and Culture Warwickshire.
About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire/Lace Team
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and visitors to connect and engage with their local heritage. We safeguard Warwickshire’s archives, history and natural sciences, protect its historic and natural environment and provide high quality arts and cultural opportunities and lifelong learning for everyone in the County and beyond.
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire has several sites based in and around Warwick, Market Hall Museum, St Johns House, Warwickshire County Record Office and a Collections Centre for the museum collections. We are a countywide service and working with partners from within and outside Warwickshire County Council offer outreach services to local communities.
The Shout Out for the Arts Coordinator role sits within the Learning and Community Engagement team (Lace team) and is managed by the Senior Learning and Community Engagement Officer.
About Creative Explorers
Creative Explorers is a Place Partnership funded project between Nuneaton and Bedworth Council and Imagineer Productions. There are four strands to the project and Shout Out for the Arts are involved in two of those strands. As part of our role in the project the CEP Coordinator will work with local partners to bring together a group of young people to influence and shape elements of the Creative Explorer’s project. It is an 18 month project, with the CEP coordinator spending two days a week working on Shout Out for the Arts contribution. Shout Out for the Arts will also be looking for local organisations to support and sustain the Youth Board beyond the 18 month Creative Explorer’s project.
Your application
For more information or for an informal conversation about your application please email Rebecca Coles at [email protected]
Closing Date: 12th September 2023
Interviews are Thursday 28th September 2023, at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby , CV21 3BZ
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The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
These are the benefits we offer including agile working, enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, and a generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas.
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Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more.
