Participation Team Activity Leader
| Posting date: | 27 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 February 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RS |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4463 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Home based and various location across Leicestershire with a particular focus on Oadby and Wigston
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £14.36 - £15.37 per hour.
Working Hours: Flexible hours weekdays with occasional weekend opportunities
Contract Type: Casual
Closing Date: Monday 3rd February 2025
Interview Date(s): Flexible
An exciting opportunity to join Culture Leicestershire.
The role involves supporting the research, development and/ or delivery of bespoke cultural programmes of activity in collaboration with Culture Leicestershire, ensuring models of activity meet the need of targeted audiences with the aim of reducing social isolation and improving wellbeing.
For more information about our team and this role please visit https://www.cultureleicestershire.co.uk/get-involved/jobs/
About the Role
Main duties and responsibilities include:
- To research, plan and /or deliver engaging and exciting creative cultural activities using appropriate approaches based on the characteristics of targeted audiences.
- Be knowledgeable and embrace the Participation Team offer and approach in order to support participants and communities and be able to confidently promote the service to potential new audiences
- To ensure that the activities meets the needs of our audiences by researching, piloting, delivering, evaluating and consulting on delivery.
- Support the marketing and social media promotion of the Participation Team by gathering content.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Level 3 qualification or relevant and demonstrable experience of the below.
- Knowledge and experience of working in the cultural sector (e.g. Heritage, Libraries, Arts)
- Experience of working with community groups and individuals experiencing social or cultural exclusion.
- Knowledge of understanding of the needs of different audiences and experience in producing resources or activities that cater to them
- Ability to interact positively with a wide range of individuals and partners
- Excellent oral and written presentation skills.
DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity (includes a barred list check) is an essential requirement.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Kirsty Ballard, Cultural Outreach Manager
Telephone: 0116 30 53653
Email: Kirsty.ballard@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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