Responsible to:  Community Producer
Responsible for:  Assisting the Community Producer to manage freelance artists and project staff
Location:  Office base in Narberth but working across the county of Pembrokeshire
Salary:  £21,840 FTE (£13,104 pro rata based on 21 hours per week)  
Hours:  Part time (21 hrs per week) - some evening and weekend work will be required
Annual leave:  5.6 weeks including Bank Holidays
Contract:  Fixed term 12-month contract from start date

Main Purpose of Job
To assist the codesign and delivery of the 2024/25 Listen to Your Art programme of creative engagement for SPAN Arts in partnership with our local community.
You will work alongside the Community Producer to deliver the Listen to Your Art programme collaborating with our community, partners, volunteers and artists to create this cohesive programme of creative engagement, performance, learning and celebration under the following themes:

• The Welsh Language
• Our environment
• Youth creative expression and talent development
• Community wellbeing

Duties and Responsibilities

Programme Delivery Assistance:

• Working closely with the Community Producer, SPAN team, community, artists, and volunteers assisting to conceive, develop and deliver arts participation, performance and engagement projects and events
• Assisting the Community Producer to collaborate and cocreate with local people to ensure work that reflects the social diversity and needs of the area
• Assisting the Community Producer to support the development of creative engagement opportunities that have local relevance and national/global resonance
• Assisting the Community Producer to develop SPAN’s understanding of, and place in, the local community through providing opportunities for direct engagement and collaboration
• Engagement and Reach:
• Work collaboratively with SPAN’s marketing staff to break down barriers to engagement and build strong and appropriate communication with our diverse audiences
• Assisting the Community Producer to grow SPAN’s profile as a bilingual organisation, encouraging and promoting projects and events in both Welsh and English

Staff and Volunteer Management:

• Assisting the Community Producer to coordinate with freelance project staff and artists
• Work with the Volunteer Officer to assist supporting and managing event and programme volunteers

Evaluation and Learning:

• Assisting the Community Producer to cocreate and deliver effective and appropriate evaluation strategies to enable SPAN Arts and our supporters to understand our impact

Partnerships:

• Assisting the Community Producer to develop new partnerships and maintain and grow existing partnerships that enable SPAN to reach new communities of people and places and reduce barriers to accessing our work, including actively seeking out new opportunities for SPAN to partner with colleagues from across the sector and beyond
• Assisting the Community Producer to support the development of the local creative sector through participating in networks, actively engaging in sector support, and building relationships with artists and creative companies

General

• Share learning both internally and externally  
• Taking responsibility for own Health and Safety in the workplace
• Adhering to SPAN Arts policies and procedures, including Equality and Diversity policy
• Attending internal and external meetings appropriate to the role as required.
• Undertaking any other tasks as reasonably requested by the Community Producer, SPAN Arts Director and/or board of Trustees