Creative Producer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Manchester Jewish Museum

Description

The fundamental aim of the role is to take the lead in the production of original and innovative work for schools, families and young people that reflects the museum's vision, values and programming themes; and for embedding the scratch process and co-creation across the organisation.

Working as part of the programming team you will support the development and delivery of our core strategic aims: Becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation; Creating bold, ambitious, and innovative work; Establishing ourselves as a place for research and creative learning; Supporting and growing our museum community; Reducing our environmental impact; Building a resilient business model.

This post is advertised as a full-time position, however, we are willing to explore two part time positions.

Please get in contact with Gemma (Programmes Manager) if you'd like to discuss any aspects of the role, contact details are at the bottom of this document.

What we need you to do

As a small team, we all lead on certain areas and support on others - planning and budgeting, press & PR, audience research, evaluation, social media, database management, etc.

This role will lead on all areas of schools, family and young people's programming with the following responsibilities:


Audience development and engagement
To contribute to the transformation of the museum's audiences, brand and profile, focussing on community, creativity and diversity, with storytelling at its heart, so that it is relevant to existing, new and diverse audiences locally and regionally through:

• Leading on the development and delivery of programming for schools, families and young people, scratching new ways of working whereby artists and audiences help inform programming decisions. This includes designing and delivery of school workshops, family holiday workshops and young people projects.
• Leading on data collection and analysis to capture impact of programming on schools, family, and young people.
• Supporting the museum's marketing & communications strategy, sharing content with the Marketing Team to support the development and delivery of programming for the museum's school, young people and family audiences.
• Delivering externally funded projects to ensure that objectives and targets are met. This includes leading on the exciting development of a new school session focused on Holocaust stories from our collection for GCSE students. It is also an exciting time to support the shaping of the museum's new NPO project from

Programming ambitions
To be a vital part of the development of the innovative scratch programme, so that all programming explores stories of journeys, communities and identities, past and present; and collaborative, creative working processes are embedded across the organisation, through:

• Working with Programmes Manager to devise, manage and deliver a high quality, innovative and risk-taking programme for schools, family and young people's audiences.
• Lead on the delivery and design of our school and college/university workshop offer for all ages, allowing students to explore the stories and spaces of the museum through engaging, imaginative and bold programming.
• Develop a new GCSE school session that draws on the museum's values and aims, based on Holocaust stories from Manchester Jewish Museum collections.
• Support with the creation of a new young people's group of 'Creative Activists' (age , who will cocreate the museum's Holocaust Memorial Day events for January 2024. This will draw on the museum's previous work with a Creative Activist group as part of the Imperial War Museum's Second World War and Holocaust Partnership Programme.
• Work with the museum's Programme Manager and Creative Producer to create a series of family workshops around food, art, storytelling and conversation to support the sharing of stories from Manchester Jewish Museum collections.
• Collaborate with artists to develop exciting creative experiences for young people and families.
• Establish and develop a teacher's advisory group to cocreate workshops for students, design CPD opportunities for teachers and to support the work of the Programming team.
• Building and maintaining relationships with learning institutions and other arts organisations, sharing best practice and exploring opportunities for partnership working.
• Working with CEO and Programmes Manager to embed collaborative, creative working processes (such as Scratch) across the organisation. This will include the use of cocreation with audiences in the design of workshops for schools, families and young people.
• Working with staff and volunteers across the organisation to ensure programming for all audiences embodies the quality principles of originality, excellence and risk.
• Attend cultural events and participatory activities at other venues and institutions, and in doing so maintain knowledge of groundbreaking prog