Activities and Programming Officer - Hawick, United Kingdom - Live Borders

Live Borders

Verified Company

Hawick, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Purpose:

Responsible of delivering high quality, innovative and imaginative programmes of work and activities that inspire people of all ages to engage in arts and cultural activity across a range of venues within Live Borders.

Developing new and existing partnerships are key to this role as well as scoping project proposals, project management, including planning and delivering and evaluating projects.

Key Accountabilities:

Support the development and implementation of new and expanding programme of creative activities (including performing arts, visual arts and music) across a range of venues to reach new and expand existing audiences, promote existing and new services and understand local needs/demands for creative services
Develop, oversee and coordinate our creative wellbeing programme, optimising the impact of this initiative for the organisation, the participants and communities, and the funders
Monitor and report on usage and impact (including audience figures, artist feedback and analysis, case studies) and utilise this management information to inform new developments, changes and recommendations for new developments
Proactively collate and present information and reports as required by funders and service manager on the budget and performance of projects such as Arts & Creativity live events, creative workshops and nonfunded services
Identify and propose development opportunities for growing the services/responding to identified needs and opportunities and work with Head of Arts & Creativity to identify methods of engaging investment in order to grow the creative programme and support the commissioning of new work
Work with wider colleagues and partners to expand the programme to meet needs and aspirations of new audiences such as local communities, young people, older adults, health and social care target groups, and seek and secure external knowledge, networks, funding and partnership support to grow and strengthen a broad service offering
Line manage project staff (as funding provides) which may change over time

Outline of Duties:

Continually scope potential new developments which broaden the arts offering and review existing services and programmes in line with usage and wider trends to create a vision and action plan for new/evolving programme of activities
Devise, implement and collate methods to gather audience and artist feedback and analysis
Work with the Head of Arts & Creativity to ensure that the programme of creative activities are proactively planned, delivered, actively marketed to optimise impact, income and/or sustainability, and reach
Work with Connected and Creative Communities colleagues to programme activities in Live Borders venues to complement and optimise the return and sustainability of the creative programme
Support the delivery of arts based qualifications, e.g. Arts Awards
Oversee the delivery of funded programmes including delivery of activities, management of project budgets, and reporting
Coordinate the dissemination of information about programming and project activities by producing reports via the appropriate channels
Engage with local and sectorwide networks for learning, benchmarking, exploring new service options and seeking new ideas and best practice to inform the creative activities programme
Coordinate and input into Live Borders holiday programming activities on behalf of the department
Prepare creative briefs and contracts to procure artists and companies to deliver programme activities
Engage and support volunteers to build skill and capacity for the development of the creative activities programme
Identify local support partners and networks for codevelopment and delivery in areas of common
Work with marketing to promote the programme of activities through various channels including online, in local venues and through local forums
Contribute to the delivery of the Creative Communities team work plan, as discussed and agreed with the Head of service.

Permanent, part time - 28 hours a week.
Closing date - Friday 7th June 2024 at 17:00.
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At the heart of charity Live Borders is a commitment to our communities being healthier, happier and stronger. _

Job Types:
Part-time, Permanent

Pay:
£9.00-£9.44 per hour

Expected hours: 28 per week

Schedule: