Arts and Engagement Officer

Tameside Council; Tameside; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Tameside Council is seeking an Arts and Engagement Officer to help shape and deliver a high-profile cultural offer across Ashton Market Square and Stalybridge Victoria Market Hall.

You will manage event delivery, work with diverse communities, volunteers and freelancers, ensuring events are exciting, well staged, on time and compliant with Health and Safety regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in events management for arts/engagement projects.
• Experience delivering arts projects and managing them.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working with communities, volunteers and freelancers.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations for events.

Responsibilities

• Create, deliver and support diverse events and activities in Tameside.
• Lead event logistics and coordinate with volunteers and freelancers.
• Collaborate with the Arts and Engagement Manager and other council officers.
• Promote events via social media and the Council's communications channels.

Skills

Events management

Community engagement

Health & Safety

Volunteer supervision

Social media promotion

Stakeholder liaison

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade G. SCP 23 £34,434.00 - SCP 28 £39,152.00

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

An exciting opportunity to help create, deliver and support diverse, vibrant range of events and activities in Tameside.

Tameside MBCs Arts and Engagement team develop, manage and support the borough’s cultural programme including events. Some of the events the team delivers include the annual Armed Forces Day, Christmas celebrations, Whit Friday brass band contests and summer theatre programme often in partnership with other council officers, community groups, individuals and arts organisations.

With the development of Ashton Market Square and Stalybridge Victoria Market Hall the team is looking for a new creative Arts and Events Officer to help shape and deliver an exciting and high-profile cultural offer in the borough’s two newest flagship locations alongside Tameside’s cultural sector and wider communities.

About You

The successful candidate will have responsibility for event and activity delivery, ensuring events are exciting and innovative but also delivered on time, professionally staged and in accordance with Health and Safety regulations. This frequently means delivering the creativity and workshops independently whilst overseeing other volunteers and other freelancers and successfully looking after event logistics. The successful candidate must be experienced in events management, working closely with communities, be able to work to tight deadlines and able to work with many key stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be familiar with delivering arts projects and have experience of both delivering and managing these.

Close working with the Arts and Engagement Manager, the rest of the Arts and Engagement team and other Council Officers to support and develop the borough’s varied cultural programme will be required. As will an awareness of Arts Development and the ability to negotiate and collaborate with producers, agents and artists. The successful candidate will have a creative flair for delivery and the development of content for high quality events and activities delivered in a sustainable way and frequently with little budget. The successful candidate must also be able to promote these events via social media and liaise with the Council’s media and communications team.

The post holder must be adaptable to change and flexible in their approach to tasks while experienced in meeting deadlines. It is essential that the person has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

This is an opportunity for a driven and self-motivated individual to join a small team of creative arts and events officers. They will have the opportunity to gain much practical experience in a wide range of arts and engagement work and with wide ranging group of stakeholders. The individual must relish a challenge and be an active problem solver. They must also be able to bring creative ideas to the table and actively participate in discussions and planning activities.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel.

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager, Marie Holland on 0161 342 4144 or [e-mail]

Supporting Documents

Arts and Engagement Officer Job description and person specification