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Community Engagement Worker
Application deadline: 15/04/2024
Summary
Artlink Hull is a community arts and educational charity with a mission to engage all sections of the community in the arts and to bring about social change. We have recently won a three year National Lottery Community Fund grant to recruit a Community Engagement Worker to extend our work.
Are you passionate about engaging people from underrepresented communities in arts and cultural activities which will have a positive impact on their lives? Are you well connected with Hull’s communities and the city’s arts and cultural sector? Are you positive and flexible with a ‘can do’ attitude? If so we’d love to hear from you.
Role: Community Engagement Worker
Reports to: CEO
Terms: 2 days per week (0.4 FTE) 3 year fixed term contract
Note: possible extension to 3 days per week subject to funding.
Salary: £28,770 pro rata
Job Description
· Contribute to the design and delivery of Artlink’s community engagement strategy and programme alongside the CEO and our whole team.
· Pro-actively identify underrepresented communities, establish contact, and build strong relationships with community organisations and explore ways in which we might work together.
· Communicate and promote the opportunities for joint working between Artlink and community organisations.
· Ensure that the Artlink team is regularly updated on relevant community issues, concerns and activities.
· Create and maintain delivery partnerships with organisations which share our values.
· Work with Lead Creative Producer to identify and nurture partnerships with potential Creative Connections delivery partners.
· Create new opportunities for people to engage in arts and cultural activities.
· Identify potential community leaders within organisations with an interest in the arts and cultural engagement and support the development of community leaders.
· Contribute to the production of project planning documents, delivery systems and project management processes to enable and support delivery of projects to the highest possible standards.
· Working with the General Manager, provide information for Artlink’s central databases and systems to monitor and report on project milestones, timelines, impact and evaluation criteria.
· Assist in the commissioning, assembly and management of project artists/facilitators as required.
· Support and enable project team(s) and delivery partners to realise the aims and objectives of projects.
· Personally deliver elements of projects such as activity sessions, as necessary
· Promote equality, diversity and inclusion across project activities.
· Work in collaboration with the Creative Team to ensure community engagement across the whole of Artlink’s programme.
· Help to secure a future life and legacy of projects by identifying and nurturing new opportunities for income generation.
· Assist with fundraising activity by working with the CEO to secure income generation.
· Help to maintain a positive, flexible and collaborative working culture, ensuring all team members have the community engagement resources and information required to support their role.
· Work in accordance with organisational practices, policies and procedures.
· Attend staff meetings and organisational development/planning meetings as necessary.
· Maintain a commitment to training and professional development and undertake relevant training and development.
· Engage with annual staff appraisal process.
· Work flexibly including some evening and weekend work within reason and by prior agreement.
· Act as a keyholder for the building.
· Carry out additional duties relevant to the role as deemed appropriate by the CEO, and by agreement.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following attributes:
Essential
· Minimum 3 years experience of communications and engagement with local community and voluntary sector organisations.
· Significant knowledge and networks relative to the Hull’s community and voluntary sector and the arts and cultural environment.
· Passion about engaging people in arts and cultural activities which have a positive impact on their lives.
· Experience of designing and developing arts and cultural engagement projects
· Proven track record of working with project teams, artists and partners in the development of new work.
· Ability to maintain accurate and up to date records.
· Experience of monitoring and reporting of projects.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills
· Strong command of risk management and H&S around project delivery
· Strong, demonstrable ability to identify priorities and to delegate
· Commitment to equality of access and opportunity, able to support the cultivation of an inclusive and representative organisation
· A commitment to equality and diversity and promoting inclusion
· Ability to motivate and support others
· Good listening skills
· Empathy, understanding and ability to engage with people at all levels.
· A team player, positive about working collaboratively.
· Current DBS check
· Knowledge of current safeguarding requirements.
· Willingness to work flexibly including some weekends, evenings and off site.
Desirable
· Significant applied experience of delivering projects for disabled people and/or for children who faces barriers to participation
· Experience of working with and supporting volunteers
· Disability awareness training
For more details please contact recruitment@artlinkhull.co.uk
To apply, please send a full cv with a covering letter to recruitment@artlinkhull.co.uk
Benefits:
Additional leave
Casual dress
Flexitime
Work Location: Onsite
Application deadline: 15/04/2024
Expected start date: 01/06/2024