Cultural Glenkens Project Lead

THE GLENKENS COMMUNITY AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED; New Galloway; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

An established community organization is looking for a Cultural Glenkens Project Lead to spearhead a vital arts program. This role involves delivering events, supporting local heritage organizations, and engaging with schools to enhance cultural understanding. You will champion heritage preservation while empowering volunteers and fostering community connections. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the Glenkens area, ensuring that its rich heritage is celebrated and sustained for future generations. Join a passionate team dedicated to making the Glenkens an excellent place to live through arts and community initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Delivering an events program in collaboration with local heritage organizations.
• Creating a digital archive for the Glenkens, including oral histories.
• Supporting local schools to improve heritage understanding.

Job description

Salary: £24,000 per annum (£30,000 Full Time Equivalent)

Hours Per Week: 28

Application Deadline: 2pm Monday April 14, interviews will take place on Tues 22 April.

Start date: as soon as practical.

Contract: 3 year fixed contract, employee role.

Based primarily at our arts centre in New Galloway, the Cultural Glenkens Project Lead will deliver a key strand of the CatStrand Arts Programme.

The Glenkens Community & Arts Trust has a long track record of economic regeneration through arts and community work in the Glenkens. We are a key anchor organisation for the area, with a clear vision of making the Glenkens an excellent place to live for people of all ages.

The CatStrand Arts delivers the CatStrand Artistic Vision, which has three key strands:

1. CatStrand Touring Arts – hosting high quality touring work and supporting the region’s artists.
2. Cultural Glenkens – preserving and celebrating our natural and cultural Heritage.
3. CatStrand Young Creatives – engaging and developing children and young people aged from 5 to 25.

As the Cultural Glenkens Project Lead, you will be responsible for delivering the Cultural Glenkens project, which has six key components:

• Delivering an Events programme, in collaboration with Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations and regional partners, including a Festival of Land.
• Delivering Galloway Conversations – a programme of hybrid talks on a heritage theme, with regional partners.
• Supporting Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations in their work, with a view to increasing their long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency.
• Creating a digital archive for the Glenkens, including oral histories.
• Delivering an intern programme across the Glenkens.
• Working with local schools to improve heritage understanding.

In this post, you will be a champion of heritage in the Glenkens – empowering and supporting our many committed volunteers, recruiting new volunteers to the cause, and ensuring that the heritage of the Glenkens is both preserved and celebrated.

This post is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.