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Audience Builder (Festival)
| Posting date: | 04 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £175 to £200 per day |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 March 2025 |
| Location: | Unit 16d, The Factory, 5A and 5Pt Thameside Ind Estate, Factory Road, E16 2HB |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Certain Blacks |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | Job0225 |
Summary
We are looking for a personable and hands-on Audience Builder to join our busy festival team and play a crucial and supportive role in our upcoming Ensemble Festival, happening from 26 - 27 July at the Royal Victoria Docks. The Audience Builder will deliver our programme Engineers of the Imagination, acting as an ambassador outreach worker in charge of establishing an audience panel of local participants, particularly young people, and working with local community organisations to put the Ensemble Festival in the communities’ activities.
Engineers of the Imagination is Certain Blacks’ Audience Engagement Programme aims to transform the landscape of outdoor arts engagement in Custom House, Beckton, and Newham by empowering young people to become ambassadors of our Ensemble Festival. Through innovative programming inspired by radical performance practices, we seek to create inclusive, accessible experiences that celebrate diverse voices and foster community connections. As we commemorate a decade of supporting diverse artists, our mission for 2025 is to cultivate lasting relationships with local communities, organisations, and initiatives where we are based, ensuring that outdoor arts thrive and resonate with all.
This is a new position within the team at a crucial moment for the organisation as we prepare for our 10th anniversary.
Main Responsibilities
• Establish an Audience Panel: Form a diverse panel of up to 15 young creative leaders from Custom House, Beckton, and Newham, tasked with acting as ambassadors of Ensemble Festival and fostering community involvement.
• Establish partnerships with local community organisations, schools, youth clubs, and cultural initiatives to promote the Ensemble Festival and coordinate collaborative activities.
• Collaborate with the Audiences Panel to develop a manifesto that outlines the aspirations and needs of diverse communities in relation to outdoor arts, guiding future initiatives, participation and legacy.
• Act as an ambassador of Certain Blacks and Ensemble Festival at meetings, events, etc as appropriate.
• Host regular group meetings to discuss themes about outdoor arts, access, environmentally friendly practices and audience engagement.
• Organise meetings with Ensemble Festivals artists and go and see visits to partner festivals.
• Support the marketing team around campaign plans; this includes collating and creating production copy, images, social media handles and any other info required.
• Support the team in managing artists’ evaluation, collection, and collation.
• Attend staff meetings and share the development of areas of responsibility with the wider team.
This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the Audience Builder will be expected to perform any other reasonable duties consistent with the role.
How to apply
1. Please send your application via email to info@certainblacks.com with
● A detailed C.V. (no more than two A4 pages)
● Names and contact details of two references.
● A brief summary (no more than two pages A4) of your relevant experience and skills, and responding to the criteria listed in the person specification and job description duties.
OR a video application responding to the criteria listed in the person specification and job description duties (no longer than 3 minutes).
2. Please fill out our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form https://forms.gle/sxBxLVoTapvwJNhk6
Important dates
Closing Date: Monday 10th of March 2025 at 10:00 am
Interviews: w/c 17th of March 2025
Start Date: 7th of April, 2025
If you would like to have an informal, confidential conversation about the role or would like to have the application pack in a different version please email maria@certainblacks.com.
Certain Blacks is committed to being a truly inclusive organisation – from our Trustees and team members to our audience and participants. We treat all job applications equally, regardless of race, age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from groups who are underrepresented in the cultural sector including working-class people, disabled people, and people from Global Majority backgrounds.
Our organisation has a flexible and adaptive environment that allows our small, dedicated team to flourish. We are open to discussing the possibility of remote working, flexible start and finish times. We will explore this with candidates at interview stage.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Certain Blacks will offer an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
Engineers of the Imagination is Certain Blacks’ Audience Engagement Programme aims to transform the landscape of outdoor arts engagement in Custom House, Beckton, and Newham by empowering young people to become ambassadors of our Ensemble Festival. Through innovative programming inspired by radical performance practices, we seek to create inclusive, accessible experiences that celebrate diverse voices and foster community connections. As we commemorate a decade of supporting diverse artists, our mission for 2025 is to cultivate lasting relationships with local communities, organisations, and initiatives where we are based, ensuring that outdoor arts thrive and resonate with all.
This is a new position within the team at a crucial moment for the organisation as we prepare for our 10th anniversary.
Main Responsibilities
• Establish an Audience Panel: Form a diverse panel of up to 15 young creative leaders from Custom House, Beckton, and Newham, tasked with acting as ambassadors of Ensemble Festival and fostering community involvement.
• Establish partnerships with local community organisations, schools, youth clubs, and cultural initiatives to promote the Ensemble Festival and coordinate collaborative activities.
• Collaborate with the Audiences Panel to develop a manifesto that outlines the aspirations and needs of diverse communities in relation to outdoor arts, guiding future initiatives, participation and legacy.
• Act as an ambassador of Certain Blacks and Ensemble Festival at meetings, events, etc as appropriate.
• Host regular group meetings to discuss themes about outdoor arts, access, environmentally friendly practices and audience engagement.
• Organise meetings with Ensemble Festivals artists and go and see visits to partner festivals.
• Support the marketing team around campaign plans; this includes collating and creating production copy, images, social media handles and any other info required.
• Support the team in managing artists’ evaluation, collection, and collation.
• Attend staff meetings and share the development of areas of responsibility with the wider team.
This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the Audience Builder will be expected to perform any other reasonable duties consistent with the role.
How to apply
1. Please send your application via email to info@certainblacks.com with
● A detailed C.V. (no more than two A4 pages)
● Names and contact details of two references.
● A brief summary (no more than two pages A4) of your relevant experience and skills, and responding to the criteria listed in the person specification and job description duties.
OR a video application responding to the criteria listed in the person specification and job description duties (no longer than 3 minutes).
2. Please fill out our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form https://forms.gle/sxBxLVoTapvwJNhk6
Important dates
Closing Date: Monday 10th of March 2025 at 10:00 am
Interviews: w/c 17th of March 2025
Start Date: 7th of April, 2025
If you would like to have an informal, confidential conversation about the role or would like to have the application pack in a different version please email maria@certainblacks.com.
Certain Blacks is committed to being a truly inclusive organisation – from our Trustees and team members to our audience and participants. We treat all job applications equally, regardless of race, age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from groups who are underrepresented in the cultural sector including working-class people, disabled people, and people from Global Majority backgrounds.
Our organisation has a flexible and adaptive environment that allows our small, dedicated team to flourish. We are open to discussing the possibility of remote working, flexible start and finish times. We will explore this with candidates at interview stage.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Certain Blacks will offer an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
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