Description
British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), in partnership with J Clare Productions (JCP), is looking for an engagement specialist based in Yorkshire to work as part of a team of theatre makers of mainly South Asian descent, to create a project based on the new musical Bollywood Rose.
This role is for someone passionate about community engagement and the difference that performance, dance and song can make to young people of South Asian descent, who are currently severely under-represented in the arts.
In recruiting this role, we want to find someone excited by the idea of and able to show some success in, or strategies for, achieving the following goals:
- Partnering with key South Asian organisations
- Connecting with a wide variety of community groups
- Reaching out to schools
- Working with South Asian-owned businesses
- Engaging local South Asian influenced music and dance teachers
- Identifying Cultural/Community ambassadors of South Asian descent.
Key Details
- Freelance contract with BYMT
- 2 days (16 hours) a week from February to November 2026
- £10,000 fee
- Based at the BYMT head office in Yorkshire Dance, Leeds, for one day a week, with another day flexible, working from home or visiting communities.
We're looking for someone with the following skills and experience. If you don't have everything listed here but believe you have demonstrable experience that could be taken into consideration, please apply.
- Knowledge of, or ability to speedily acquire knowledge of, the local artistic and business landscape
- Experience of community partnership development and managing relationships
- Experience in an educational context, formal or informal
- Awareness of South Asian arts and communities in West Yorkshire
- Interest in applied or community arts
- Ability to build rapport with a variety of people including community leaders, teachers, young people, pastoral and creative staff
- Genuine interest in young people and their engagement in the arts
- Ability to use initiative, lead the project, self-manage and regularly communicate with the JCP and BYMT staff
- Enthusiastic and hard-working with excellent attention to detail.
For full details, please download the Recruitment Pack.
- Research into existing performance opportunities for 11 to 21-year-olds of South Asian heritage living in West Yorkshire
- Making connections with community leaders and influencers who share an interest in performing arts and finding Community Ambassadors who will support the project
- Engaging with community groups, schools and youth theatres
- Connecting with classical dance and music organisations
- Finding venues and contexts for initial taster sessions
- Creating, with artists, both the taster sessions and the content of the development workshop
- Setting up free taster sessions and creating a process of signing up for and retaining interest in the development workshop in October 2026
- Building an audience for the project and for the show's future life
- Fundraising research
- Developing relationships with project supporters and ambassadors
- Working with JCP to create an ongoing marketing and audience development strategy.
For full details, please download the Recruitment Pack.
To apply, please send us your CV (no more than two sides of A4) plus a cover letter (up to two sides of A4) telling us how your experience and interest make you the perfect person for this role. Alternatively, please send a video up to 3 minutes in length.
Send your CV and accompanying statement/video to [email protected] by midnight Monday 29th December 2025.
BYMT is committed to creating an inclusive culture in all its activities including equality of opportunity for all staff. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We are particularly keen to hear from people from global majority backgrounds and from candidates who self-identify as disabled as they are under-represented in our workforce.
We will be in touch with everyone who applies and plan to hold interviews in Leeds in the week of January 19th 2026.