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Job Description
Key activities and responsibilities
Community engagement and cocreation:
- To design manage and deliver activities and events that engage Newham residents in making experiencing curating or learning about arts culture and creativity and to manage the collaborations with artists and partner organisations that this involves. To design manage and facilitate commissioning processes and methods of cocreation through which community members can take part in decisionmaking around commissioning and codesigning of activities.
- To lead on elements of the Culture Within Newham programme and to contribute to setting out the overall programme strategies and ways of working.
- To build and maintain a network of external relationships with different community groups across Newham including (but not limited to) community networks business communities local interest groups resident groups local schools and colleges youth groups children and family groups faith groups culturally diverse networks etc. Many of the groups we work with encounter barriers to participation in culture or society more general including as a result of language barriers or elements of deprivation.
- To listen to the needs and interests of local community groups and design activities and programmes in ways that fit these needs in order to produce engagement opportunities that are welcoming inclusive and accessible.
- To book schedule and manage contractors sessional staff commissioned artists community producers and volunteers working on Culture Within Newham projects. To represent Culture Within Newham to external stakeholders at community meetings and events across Newham.
Community empowerment and development:
- To manage commission teams of artists community members and/or arts organisations to develop their projects to the best quality and coach these team members to gain new experience and skills.
- To design and run workshops and events that empower participants to generate and develop their own ideas for cultural and creative projects in their neighbourhoods.
- To run and facilitate community panels and steering groups designing democratic processes that allow them toto make informed decisions about the direction of the cultural programme for Newham.
- To support artists and arts organisations in working in cocreative ways that centre around community decisionmaking.
- To identify and contribute to increasing resources opportunities funding and partnership possibilities for cultural and creative engagement work across the borough.
Marketing and evaluation:
- To locate and develop new audiences as well as grow existing audiences for Culture Within Newhams activities and creative programmes through marketing information sharing and representing the programme externally.
- To commission documentation materials from communication contractors (e.g. photographers or videographers) and to work collaboratively with marketing team members and evaluators.
- To oversee the collection of evaluation data from audiences partners and commissioned project teams about the events and activities held.
Project management and administration:
- To monitor project budgets and timelines draft project contracts oversee project evaluations and manage all other necessary administration around event production and project management.
- To draft and prepare materials and planning for activities and events as well as for community workshops and meetings.
- To log and report on project activity keep project partners in the loop and provide information towards Arts Council progress reporting.
- To contribute information or project data for funding bids or best practice case study reporting.
Other:
- To travel across Newham to meet partners and build networks across the borough as well as represent Culture Within Newham across the national Creative People and Places programme.
- To work within the strategies set out by the Culture Within Newham programme and comply with Catch22s safeguarding health and safety equality risk management and GDPR policies.
- Any other duties as may reasonably be expected for the effective delivery of the project.
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Qualifications :
Person specification
Skills and experience we are looking for:
- Substantial experience of working with a diverse range of communities ideally in cultural community or charity contexts.
- Substantial experience of planning organising and delivering publicfacing community and/or cultural events.
- Experience of delivering community consultation participation or cocreation projects or other projects that are shaped and informed by community participants.
- Excellent relationshipbuilding skills in a variety of contexts for example with partner organisations community members potential participants volunteers funders or other local stakeholders.
- Good working knowledge of the borough of Newham its cultural and/or social landscape and its geography or alternatively experience of working in areas of low cultural engagement and/or working with similar communities.
- Excellent communication skills including good listening negotiation and advocacy skills.
- Strong timemanagement and organisational skills as well as a good understanding of administrative processes such as monitoring budgets and/or payment processes.
- A good level of digital literacy especially when using officebased IT programmes.
Personal attributes we are looking for:
- A commitment to using cultural engagement to achieve social change in Newham or beyond.
- A positive and enthusiastic attitude towards new ideas and input from the community which focuses on making things happen and is solutions focused.
- An enterprising mindset that shows initiative and flexibility can manage multitasking and embraces change and development.
- An accessible and inclusive approach to community engagement that is welcoming and that relates to people from the community.
- A commitment to cocreation values of respect equitability diversity and kindness as well as to equal opportunities.
- Availability to occasionally work flexibly including on some evenings weekends and bank holidays as required by the events programme.
- Availability to travel around the borough of Newham as required for making connections building partnerships and delivering the events programme.
Desirable criteria that would catch our attention:
- Experience of working with communities who encounter barriers to participation in culture or society more general including as a result of language barriers or elements of deprivation.
- Experience of working with children and young people on engagement activities.
- Experience of working across multiple art forms.
- Experience of coordinating volunteers artists and/or casual or freelance staff.
- A good understanding of partnership working with organisations and individuals within and outside of the cultural sector.
- Knowledge of other languages besides English especially those that are spoken by many in Newham (e.g. South Asian African or Eastern European languages).
- Knowledge and experience of monitoring and evaluation including writing evaluation reports.
- Knowledge of social media platforms and how they can be used to strengthen community engagement.
- Experience of and commitment to robust safeguarding principles.
We are keen for our team to be highly diverse in every sense of the word. Therefore we would love to receive applications from people who identify as working class LGBTQIA deaf or disabled careexperienced young carers and people from South East and South East Asian heritage African or Caribbean heritage Gypsy Roma or Irish Traveller heritage or Latinx heritage. We also particularly encourage people from Newham to apply.
Additional Information :
How to apply
To apply please use Catch22s Smart Recruiters platform to submit your application by uploading your CV and including a cover letter in the Message to Hiring Manager field. Your CV should list your relevant previous work history and experience and your cover letter (max 4000 characters) should address how you meet the person specification above and how this fit will help you to do well in the role.
If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process you can email Loose Baker at .
Application deadline: 9am on Thursday 23 January 2025
Interviews: End of January
Start date: As soon as possible
The Creative Community Builder will be employed by Catch22 and receive its respective benefits and support.
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them a purpose and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
