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Project Lead for New Wave 2024 – Heritage Open Days

20-21 Visual Arts Centre is looking to contract a Project Lead, aged 18 to 25, to deliver and implement New Wave, a grant funded project aimed at engaging young people from North Lincolnshire. The successful candidate will develop a programme of engagement opportunities that collaborates with young people, to co-create events that celebrate this year’s Heritage Open Days.

The Project Lead will work 37 hours between June and September 2024.

What is New Wave?

New Wave is guided by three key themes:

• Learning from others – encourage and support participants to find examples of past events that have successfully engaged young people, both in the cultural sector and beyond. New Wave aims to learn from and build upon the previous work that has been done in this area.
• Understanding our audience – New Wave focuses heavily on utilising audience data to inform and guide our approach. The project aims to build an in-depth understanding of the motivations, aspirations, and barriers when it comes to youth engagement in the cultural sector.
• Co-creation and collaboration – New Wave is about producing events working directly with young adults. Our participants are supported and encouraged to work with this target audience to plan, promote, and deliver their events.

New Wave enables organisations to develop and deliver an event in collaboration with young people (18-25) during Heritage Open Days 2024 (6-15 September) aimed at attracting and engaging younger audiences with the festival. The event may build on your previous work of the organisation or could be something completely new. Regardless, it aims to push the boundaries of the types of activities that the organisation have delivered in the past, and help you connect with audiences currently under-represented. A key aspect of New Wave is the importance of producing events with and not just for young people. Consequently, throughout the process organisations will consult and collaborate with individuals within the New Wave target age group.

 

 About 20-21 Visual Arts Centre

 20-21 Visual Arts Centre (20-21) has a 20-year track record of showing established and emerging artists, representing the breadth of creative talent from the UK and abroad. We show underrepresented popular art forms and support artists who may consider themselves an outsider (to the mainstream art world) but whose work encapsulates the diversity of contemporary England and exposes the barriers that are faced by many artists.

20-21 also has a reputation for developing and exhibiting accessible exhibitions targeted at children and families. We also present established artists to North Lincolnshire, recognising that it may be the first time many residents will have seen such well-known work e.g, Antony Gormley, Bansky, Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst.

Why are we doing this?

 Over the years, the Heritage Open Days have evolved from just opening doors to encompassing a wide range of innovative and dynamic events. 20-21 Visual Arts Centre was successful in their application to the New Wave project and regularly takes part in the programme. 20-21’s participation in New Wave seeks to deliver high-quality events that push the boundaries of what people expect of us, widening the appeal at 20-21 to audience groups that we have previously struggled to reach.

20-21 Visual Arts Centre regularly captures audience data through surveys and evaluation. Recent survey results have indicated that 20-21’s visitors, aged 18-25, are the least engaged and visit less frequently. The project aims to change all that. We would like to make 20-21 as accessible to young people as possible with the New Wave project leading the way.

 Project Lead Role

It is anticipated that the Project Lead will work in 20-21 Visual Arts Centre with some outreach taking place in other cultural venues in North Lincolnshire. Work times are flexible but should be agreed in advance with the Arts and Heritage Learning and Engagement manager and should involve some hours that coincide with the office team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

 This is an ideal opportunity for a young person interested in a career in events, customer service, hospitality, tourism, museums or gallery related work. The project lead will oversee the development and delivery of the New Wave project – including any community involvement in its making, and ensure it is completed by said deadlines.

• Enlist the help of young people who can assist in the planning, development, and delivery of the Heritage Open Days programme.
• Facilitate, encourage, and support young people to engage and inform the Heritage Open Day programme.
• Promote a continued relationship between young people and 20-21 after the project.
• Produce documents including contracts to an agreed template and ensure and that all assurance documents relating to each contract are in place.
• Order event equipment and resources.
• Liaise with suppliers and artists.
• Monitor project finances and reporting – budgets to be agreed with the Arts and Heritage Learning and Engagement Manager.
• Support 20-21’s social media channels by creating promotional content relevant and engaging to young people
• Able to capture images and videos of events.
• Work closely with the Marketing & Digital Content Officer, ensuring that online content is up to date with New Wave content.
• Assist with the production and distribution of marketing materials.
• Collect data and evaluation about events including customer surveys.
• Support the set-up and running of events, workshops, and performances during the Heritage Open Day Festival.
• Keep the Arts and Heritage Learning and Engagement Manager up to date with developments by email or telephone.
• The duties and responsibilities listed above are illustrative – final duties will be agreed with the appointed project lead.
• To be able to work evenings and weekends.

We are particularly interested in working with:

•  Someone who can develop a programme with a firm grounding in 20-21’s history and the production of events.
• Someone with experience in creating innovative programmes, in partnership with the young people, community, local arts organisations, & individual artists.
• Someone from a background/s under-represented in the arts. (Relating to the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 and socio-economic background.  For example, Young People of Colour (Black and Asian young people) Disabled young people and young people from a working-class background [Not an exhaustive list]

 

What’s in it for me?

• Hands-on experience in shaping a programme of events.
• Experience
• Be part of a team who will make a real difference for their peers at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
• Be part of something new and exciting
• Experience of working with young audiences
• The chance to build knowledge and skills of the arts and heritage sector
• Developing project management, budget management and marketing skills

 

Project Lead Specifications

 Essential

• Good literacy and basic numeracy skills.
• Good communication skills and telephone manner.
• Confident customer facing skills.
• Confident when connecting to young people.
• Holds an appreciation for the arts and heritage.
• IT skills including word processing and email.
• A commitment to a high standard of customer care.
• Can produce engaging social media content – including the ability to generate photos and video.

Desirable

• Ability to learn technical skills with AV equipment including TV’s, projectors and laptops.
• Ability to transport self and materials around North Lincolnshire.
• Experience of event management
• A general knowledge of historic buildings
• A general knowledge of British History.

 Fee

The role offers the successful person a payment of £600.00. VAT, Income Tax and National Insurance is the responsibility of the Project Lead.

Application process

 Applicants are requested to provide a proposal which should include:

• Details of how the applicant meets the Project Lead specifications for the project including details of background and experience.
• A proposal of how the applicant intends on engaging young audiences.
• Create a suggested event programme for the Heritage Open Days Festival in September.

Applications can be written and / or spoken / presented on video or audio file. If you would like to discuss the proposal, please contact us prior to the deadline.

Deadline for applications is midday on Wednesday 8 May 2024.  

Shortlisted applicants will be notified on Friday 10 May 2024. Interviews will take the following week on Wednesday 15 May 2024. (interviews will be conducted via Zoom or MS Teams).

Proposals should be submitted via email to artsandheritagelearning@northlincs.gov.uk

 This opportunity has been made possible by funding from New Wave. Also, using public funding through the Arts Council England.

 

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