Art Engagement Officer
| Posting date: | 19 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 August 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, po1 2EP |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 3908 |
Summary
Art Engagement Officer - fixed term/secondment opportunity for 12 months due to funding
Salary: Band 8 £33,945 pro rata (£27,156 for 29.6 hours)
29.6 hours a week - Days to be discussed at interview but you may be required to work alternative days when events are taking place.
Your New Role
This is a great opportunity for you to plan develop and deliver exciting activities to engage the public with Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery's new art exhibition The Quietness of Feeling. Facilitate art workshop experiences around Portsmouth in local parks, cemeteries, and other outdoor locations to help people connect with the natural world and find the beauty and solace of trees. Produce online content to educate people about the history and value of trees to the environment and how they inspire art.
You will work with the Engagement Officer and the Curator of Art to deliver enriching engagement opportunities, provide collections access and interpretation, and produce educational materials and online content connected with The Quietness of Feeling exhibition. For the development and duration of the exhibition, we want to encourage as many people as possible to participate in creating their own tree-related art.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role
What you'll need to succeed
You will have significant proven experience in a similar cultural or heritage organisation and an excellent knowledge of art or natural history. Highly analytical you will have a strong attention to detail with an ability to understand, analyse, report on and present/visualise data in an engaging way whilst managing competing priorities and deadlines. You will have experience of delivering art/natural history engagement activities and working with the public.
Please read the full job profile of what you need to enable you to do the role
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Application process:
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information on the home page of the careers website. PLEASE DO NOT JUST SUBMIT A CV.
If applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment. Please state you have this on your application form.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be
offered without it.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Closing date: 30 July 2024 @ 23:59 pm.
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Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.