Position: ArtsTrain Programme Manager (Maternity Cover)
Location: Bromley/London area
Salary: circa £34,000 per annum (pro rata)
Job Type: Fixed term contract - from Mid-February 2025 to February 2026
Hours: 24 hours per week
Closing date: 17th January 2025
Key Duties
- To develop an annual ArtsTrain Activity Plan, Investment Plan and Risk Register, through which a coherent and exciting ArtsTrain creative music programme for young people aged 11-25 years is managed and delivered.
- To work with artists, education, community, and creative industry partners to maximise the opportunities for young people.
- To line manage the ArtsTrain Programme Coordinator & Producer.
- To recruit and manage a team of Creative Practitioners / Music Leaders and consultants to the programme.
- To build new and maintain existing relationships with ArtsTrain project partners, leading on communication, project and event planning
- To monitor, review and evaluate the programme, coordinating the collection of both qualitative and quantitative programme data and recruiting an evaluation partner for more in-depth evaluation as and when required.
- To report and profile ArtsTrain’s achievements through quarterly progress reports to the ArtsTrain Steering Group and disseminate internally and externally to other relevant partner organisations.
- To attend project sessions to observe and monitor Music Leaders, report back on progress and provide feedback.
- To provide performance opportunities for young people through partner events and / or planning and curating showcases.
- To oversee the programme’s marketing, audience development and online / digital presence, writing copy where necessary for reports, newsletters, and online content.
- To monitor income and expenditure against an annual ArtsTrain budget and give a quarterly overview of finances to the ArtsTrain Steering Group.
- To make applications to external funding organisations, including Arts Council England to ensure the continuation and development of ArtsTrain.
- To represent and act as ambassador for the ArtsTrain programme at external events.
- To keep up to date with local, regional and national policy, ensuring ArtsTrain’s practices are relevant and adhere to guidance.
Knowledge/Experience
Knowledge of good practice in participatory work and an understanding of co-creative process
Knowledge and understanding of the issues facing young people and developing artists
Experience of working with artists and creating participatory music projects.
Experience of event producing
Experience of working with a range of education/ third sector/ arts organisation partners
Benefits:
In return you get to work for a great company with like-minded people with a competitive salary and benefits package including:
* Free access to Mytime Leisure & Golf for you and one other.
* 29 days annual leave (including bank holidays). Additional leave with length of service.
* Holiday purchase scheme.
* 25% off food and beverage and free hot drinks.
* NEST pension.
* Early Pay- withdraw a part of your salary in advance of the pay day.
* New Employee Referral Bonus
* Exceptional achievement award scheme.
* Employee discount & salary sacrifice schemes.
About us:
We are an independent social enterprise on a mission to improve wellbeing through our range of accessible services. These include golf, swimming, gyms, bowling, social and health programmes at 20 locations across Bromley, the Midlands and Hampshire. We reinvest our profits into the long-term wellbeing of our local communities, and to date we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people to live a happier and healthier lifestyle.
*All offers of employment are conditional upon you signing the contract of employment and:
* Satisfactory health clearance;
* Two satisfactory references;
* Proof of attainment of qualifications;
* Evidence of your right to work in the United Kingdom; and
** Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if needed for the role*
Mytime Active applies its Equal Opportunities Policy at all stages of recruitment and selection.
Mytime Active reserve the right to remove the advert for this role as required.