Visual Arts Project Worker
- Full time or Part time
- £22,283
- Based in Alloa working across Forth Valley
- Closing 19th March 2021
- Advertised from 25th February 2021
- 37.5hrs hours per week, job-share will be considered.
Role
Reachout With Arts In Mind, established in 1993, is an award winning expressive arts charity that provides creative opportunities to improve confidence, self-esteem, motivation and aspirations for adults experiencing life's challenges including mild mental ill health and mild learning and physical disability from across Forth Valley.
The Visual Arts Project Worker is a key artistic role based in Reachout’s large well-equipped studio. Central to the role is facilitating creative workshops to vulnerable young people and adults; encouraging their creativity and self-help to maintain and develop their wellbeing. This will involve hands-on delivery, planning, coordinating, and facilitating creative workshops within Reachout studio, online through platforms such as Zoom and outreach projects across Forth Valley. This post requires excellent organisational skills in particular project management and administrative duties including monitoring and evaluating output from creative activities, costing and managing workshop budgets.
To apply for this role please complete Reachout application form and personal statement on your suitability for the role matching against the essential and desirable skills detailed below and your specific experience and competence accompanied by a covering letter with website or links to your own portfolio of work.
As a charity we are regulated by OSCR and ideally the successful candidate will have knowledge of, or, experience working for a third sector organisation.
Reachout with Arts in Mind provides services for our members and the service users of Forth Valley partner organisations. The position will involve interaction with Reachout members and the local community on a regular basis. As a small staff team the list of duties is not exhaustive and a range of additional tasks may be undertaken as and when appropriate, and as funding terms and conditions dictates and projects develop.
The successful candidate will demonstrate creativity, leadership, self-motivation and both written and verbal communication skills.
The post holder will report to the Executive Artistic Director and will work effectively as part of a small staff team.
As part of your application please provide 2 referees stipulating whether we can contact prior to interview. One must be your current or most recent employer.
Essential Experience
- Integrity and Confidentiality
- Creative and Innovative Thinker
- Recent experience of working within the creative fields (e.g. music, drama, multimedia, photography etc)
- Knowledge of the use of arts in wellbeing therapies
- Min 2 years experience of working with vulnerable people consulting, planning, delivering and facilitating multi-disciplinary creative workshops in a community arts studio.
- Recognised qualification in Arts – must have recent experience of successfully facilitating visual arts as listed previously
- Excellent organisational skills
- Committed to understanding mental ill health, disability and challenging circumstances in a community context.
- Experienced in the use of technology, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Zoom, online delivery
- Experience of monitoring and evaluation
- Experience of working in partnership with a wide range of organisations
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Committed and flexible team worker, ability to support part-time staff and volunteers
- Ability to take on responsibility and work unsupervised
- Proactive attitude to change and development
- Driving license and preferably use of own vehicle. Please note, without a driving license the post holder must be able to demonstrate how they can attend outreach meetings in a timely manner especially where public transport links are not available.
Desirable Experience
- Knowledge of Third Sector
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Training
Application notes
Closing date for applications Friday 19th March 2021 5pm
The advert, job description and application form can be found on the homepage of the website: reachoutwithartsinmind.org.uk
Please email applications to: info@reachoutwithartsinmind.org.uk
We will use a scoring-based system to shortlist and select for interview measured against the Essential and Desirable skills.
All candidates selected for interview will be asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation based on their experience and research on Reachout with Arts in Mind. The interview will then follow a series of questions asked by a panel and then a discussion answering any questions you may have. Interviews will take place in Reachout Studio week commencing 1st or 8th April subject to government guidelines and Covid-19 restrictions.
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