CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE PRODUCER

AT lakeland arts

Location: Windermere

Contract: One full time role, working 5 days, or as two part time roles working 3 or 4 days each

Salary: £22,725.00 per annum

Posted date: 31/07/21

Closing date: 22/08/21

Job Description

The Children & Young People Producer/s is a new role within the Participation & Learning team at Lakeland Arts. It represents a commitment to make Windermere Jetty Museum an inviting, invigorating, fun and friendly place for children and young people to come to, whatever the motivation. The focus of this role is to increase family activation and enjoyment on site, and to increase our connectivity with children and young people living locally.

The main focus of this role is to create inclusive and accessible opportunities for engagement at Windermere Jetty Museum, and the surrounding towns, by;

1. On site you will lead a broad programme of enjoyable school workshops, informal activities, projects and trails, putting participation and learning at the centre. Using playful, experimental and design led approaches to engagement, you will make a visit to Windermere Jetty Museum, and the lakeshore, a memorable one.

2. Off site, you will connect to the children and young people living in the area. You will find inspiration in the local working community, the awe-inspiring landscape, lake and nationally significant collections to increase engagement locally. Primarily this will be through participatory led projects using heritage, craft and innovation, but may also be in partnership work to deliver greater outcomes locally.

The approach you take will champion creative approaches to museum and gallery engagement, placing it competitively with more active and attraction led organisations.

Job Duties:

• To embed a new family strategy for Windermere Jetty, with Engagement Producer, that builds on recent successes on site that have taken a family led approach

• Work with programming colleagues to build projects and programmes that work with families, to bring greater voices and diversity to site. Working primarily on workshops, activities and trails, you will work on one Family Focussed ‘commission’ each year celebrating aspects of the collection and / or community

• To collaborate with Engagement producer and community stakeholders, on a series of partnerships and projects, that build our connection to local children and young people. You will create a series of enriching opportunities with children, young people, and families to develop a unique story and voice for Windermere Jetty Museum, that more closely reflects our contemporary audiences.

• To work with curators to co-produce museum launch events, exhibition and display programme so that they respond to audience need; creating opportunities and a range of activities to engage with, develop and diversify school and family audiences.

• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of all projects and programmes to capture progress and create new ideas through user-led research.

• Manage assigned budgets in liaison with the Engagement Producer and Finance Team.

• Take responsibility for own personal and professional development.

• Contribute to Lakeland Arts stakeholder events and other activities to promote Lakeland Arts and involve local communities, visitors and key stakeholders in the business and its programming.

• Manage and work with volunteers, interns, creative practitioners and artists.

Full details on the role and how to apply can be found on our website www.lakelandarts.org.uk/jobs

How to apply:

You must complete an application form available to download from the Lakeland Arts website www.lakelandarts.org.uk/jobs in Word and PDF formats. You may attach a covering letter but please don’t send pictures or photographs. Sorry, but we don’t accept CVs.