Projects Coordinator

**About The Role**:
Contract: Fixed Term until 31/07/2027

**Salary**: £27,269 - £31,067 (pro rata salary £13,634 - £15,533)
Hours: 18.5
Location: Hereford
Closing Date: 12/01/2025

The role

Are you passionate about driving community-focused projects while ensuring rigorous reporting and evaluation?

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Projects Coordinator to support the delivery and coordinate the National Lottery Heritage Funded Activity Plan for the redevelopment of Hereford Museum and Art Gallery.

We are seeking a proactive and energetic individual with experience of delivering activity and project plans to join our team as a Projects Coordinator.

This post is fixed term for 3.5 years. This post is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

What will you be doing?

Evaluation and Reporting:

- Embed evaluation processes across all activities, gathering feedback and data to assess project impact.
- Analyse data and produce regular evaluation reports for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring delivery against funder targets.
- Manage and monitor budgets and timelines, preparing updates and funding reports as required

Coordination:

- Work closely with colleagues, partners, and volunteers to coordinate the delivery of the engagement activity plan.
- Lead on volunteer recruitment and coordination to support activities

Communication and Delivery:

- Prepare concise reports and funding documentation to support project progress and further opportunities.
- Support programming, outreach, and collections projects that align with redevelopment objectives.

About You

As Projects Coordinator you will have:

- A track record in delivering activity for cultural, arts, heritage, or National Lottery Heritage Fund projects
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain high standards of cleanliness and security in museum buildings.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with a range of colleagues, stakeholders and partners.

We Offer
- A competitive salary, holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

- Starting Salary of £25,979 - £ 29,777 (pro-rated to £12,989 - £14,888)
- Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
- Career progression: clear pathways to progress
- Annual Leave: 31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum.
- Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
- Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
- Payment of professional membership fees
- Pick your perks - our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

Why Choose Us?

You will probably have heard a lot about how beautiful it is in terms of countryside and open spaces (and it is) but there is so much more going on here, including world-class cultural assets like the Mappa Mundi, vibrant theatres and a thriving food and drink sector.

One of Herefordshire’s biggest assets is the strong and diverse communities. Our Talk Community approach brings that together supporting people to help themselves, encouraging them to help their communities and identifying how communities can help individuals. Our ambitious transformation programme aims to further build on this to offer an all-age approach. We’re excited about the potential of what we can achieve for the benefit of all residents of Herefordshire, stronger together and building brighter futures.

Don’t meet all parts of the job description?

Herefordshire Council is committed to strengthening a diverse and inclusive work environment which reflects the communities of Herefordshire.

If you are looking at the next stage of your career and have a broad base of fieldwork experience, we can provide supportive and welcoming opportunities to help you develop your professional, management & supervisory skills.

Reasonable Adjustments

Creating an inclusive workplace

Employee Network Groups play an important role in strengthening the voices of employees at Herefordshire Council. Embedded in the Council's values is a commitment to listen to people's views and needs.

Employee Network Groups are a collective of colleagues who often share identities, life experiences or cultures and who come together to initiate positive change in their work place. Our groups include: Black and Asian Staff Networking Group, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Climate and Nature Emergency, Diff-abilities and Armed Forces/ Veterans. For more information on our Employee Network Groups please click here.

How to apply

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