Museums Arts and Projects Officer

Sandwell Local Area Partnership; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandwell Museum Service is seeking an enthusiastic Arts and Projects Officer to lead community engagement through arts and heritage. The role focuses on delivering excellent customer care to visitors from diverse backgrounds, building partnerships with local organisations, and steering community projects and grants.

A flexible schedule with some weekends and evenings is required to support events and programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead on community engagement through arts and heritage.
• Deliver a high standard of customer care and public service to visitors of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
• Nurture partnerships with other organisations, community groups and practitioners to add capacity and innovation to service delivery.
• Lead and manage community engagement projects and programmes, working with partners and seeking external funding opportunities and grant applications.
• Join the busy creative team delivering projects, events and activities to visitors and the local community, and work as a member of the museums’ management team to develop the service.
• Maintain a flexible approach with regular weekends, bank holidays and evening working when required.

Job description

Sandwell Museum Service is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, creative Arts and Projects Officer to lead on community engagement through arts and heritage.

The post holder will deliver a high standard of customer care and public service to visitors of all ages and cultural backgrounds, nurture partnerships with other organisations, community groups and practitioners to add capacity and innovation to service delivery.

The successful candidate will lead and manage community engagement project and programmes working with partners as well as look for external funding opportunities and complete grant applications.

The post holder will join our busy creative team delivering exciting projects, events and activities to visitors, users, and the local community as well as working behind the scenes as a member of the museums’ management team to develop the service

The successful candidate will need a flexible approach to working as there will be regular weekends, bank holidays and evening working. There is some flexibility in when hours are worked depending on the needs of the service.