Project Officer

Responsible to: SPAN Director

Responsible for: Freelance artists and project staff as required

Location: Office based in Narberth but working across West Wales

**Salary**: £23,793 FTE / £10,876.80 based on 16 hours per week

Hours: Part time (16 Hrs per week)

Some evening & weekend work will be required

Annual Leave: 5.6 weeks including Bank Holidays

Contract: Fixed term 16 month contract 1st June 2023 and 30 September 2024

**PLEASE VISIT THE SPAN ARTS WEBSITE TO DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION PACK**

span-arts.org.uk

CV's only will not be accepted

**About SPAN Arts**

SPAN Arts is a community arts charity, based in Narberth, with a 30-year history of making a significant contribution to the arts in Pembrokeshire. We are ambitious for the arts in Pembrokeshire to inspire & connect rural people, places, and communities creatively and seek to challenge perceptions of what rural communities are capable of and what they can achieve when they work together.

We work with volunteers, artists, performers and producers to cocreate projects and experiences that enrich the lives of people living in rural areas, tackle social inequality and improve health and wellbeing.

**What does SPAN Arts do?**

SPAN Arts engages rural communities in meaningful community arts experiences across Pembrokeshire for both Welsh and English-speaking communities.
- We co-create, co-commission and co-curate a diverse range of high-quality creative engagement, events and performances
- We work in partnerships to deliver an ambitious and vibrant programme of community arts and health engagement
- We are supported by a vital and well-established volunteer programme

**What difference does SPAN Arts make?**
- Reduces rural isolation, loneliness, and deprivation
- Boosts health and well-being
- Nurtures local and emerging talent
- Champions the Welsh-language
- Helps build more connected and resilient rural communities

**Management**

SPAN Arts is managed by a paid Director with strategic support from a Trustee Board of volunteers drawn from the local community.

We are a small but dedicated team, alongside the Director current employees are: Finance Manager, Community Producer, Community and Volunteer Officer, Digital Marketing and Design Assistant, and freelance project staff.

**Main Purpose of Job**

To manage and deliver the Children in Need funded We Move project. The project is a partnership between SPAN Arts and Llwy Gariad Social Group that aims to support and facilitate Black children and young people living in West Wales to engage in Youth Social Justice activity locally.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Programme Delivery

Working closely with the Director, SPAN team, members of Llwy Gariad:

- To conceive, develop and deliver youth social justice projects and events led by the Black children and young people engaged
- To collaborate and cocreate with the participants to ensure the work delivered reflects the social diversity and needs of the area
- To ensure the delivery of this project work is complementary to the wider SPAN Arts programme
- To support the development of creative engagement opportunities that have local relevance and national/global resonance
- To develop SPAN’s understanding of, and place in, the local community through providing opportunities for direct engagement and collaboration

Engagement and Reach:

- To identify and recruit Black children and young people to engage in the project, and support their ongoing engagement and development
- Work collaboratively with SPAN’s marketing staff to break down barriers to engagement and build strong and appropriate communication with our diverse audiences
- To grow SPAN’s profile as a bilingual organisation, encouraging and promoting projects and events in both Welsh and English

Staff and Volunteer Management:

- Line-manage freelance project staff and artists as needed in the delivery of the youth social justice work
- Work with the Community and Volunteer Officer to engage volunteers as appropriate

Evaluation and Learning:

- With the support of the Director, cocreate and deliver effective and appropriate evaluation strategies to enable SPAN Arts and our supporters to understand our impact

Partnerships:

- With the Director, 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.

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 SPAN Arts Director and/or board of Trustees

**Role Profile**:
You need to be part of the Black and/or Global Majority community. This shared lived experience is critical to the success of this