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RAISING VOICES Project Co-ordinator, MK LITERARY FESTIVAL, MK Lit Fest, part of Arts charity Arts Gateway MK

  •  South East
  •  Â£25k-30k (pro rata)
  •  Part time
  •  Closes May 18, 2025
  •  John Best, chair of Trustees
  •  john.best@artsgatewaymk.org.uk
  • #Literature

Description

Job Summary

MKLitFest, Milton Keynes` premier literary festival, is recruiting an experienced project co-ordinator to oversee our Raising Voices Community Programme. The post will be on a part-time contractor basis initially for 6 months, for which £4000 of the fee is currently funded, with extension possible.

Job Description

Launching in Summer 2025, MK Lit Fest is embarking on a citywide multimedia project to capture people's experiences in relation and response to specific places - houses, streets, buildings, parks, trees, lakes, bars - across Milton Keynes.

The post-holder will co-ordinate delivery of this project, reporting to the Lit Fest Project Manager and the Lit Fest Steering Group. They will devise creative writing workshop events (delivered by specialists), for identified localities or groups, build partnerships with funders and with local organisations who can support delivery. Planning for the first funded workshops is already underway and our aspiration is to deliver 20-30 during 2025.

We'll be running writing workshops in schools and community settings facilitated by practising writers, and the delivery of this fundamental core of the programme is the responsibility of this advertised role. We'll also be hosting online masterclasses in using poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction to write about place and location. And there'll be downloadable resources to inspire and guide people before they write - or before they send us their writing.

We'll be curating a selection of the submitted pieces into a web-based StoryMap, where people will be able to click on linked locations to read - and hear - poems and stories that they've inspired, in many cases illustrated with images too. And we'll be creating new SoundWalks - guided routes through particular areas or neighbourhoods that link a series of texts and recordings in audio tours of local creativity. Raising Voices will tell the stories of people and place for everyone to hear.

Job Requirements

Essential

Enthusiasm for literature, spoken word, songwriting, scriptwriting etc

Interest and successful experience in community creative practice and engagement, eg creating, curating or event delivery

Commitment to equality, inclusion and cross-cultural work

Awareness of risk mitigation, safety and safeguarding

Ability to work under pressure and with minimal supervision

Excellent communication skills in all media

Strong leadership and team-work skills, liaising with Technical and Online Programme colleagues

Experience recruiting, motivating and overseeing a team.

Understanding of safeguarding

Strong project management and budgetary skills

Desirable

Experience of Google Drive shared platforms

Use of social and traditional media (print, web, email and broadcast)

Understanding the cultural and social context of Milton Keynes

Understanding legal requirements and obligations

Job Responsibilities

Duties include:

Developing the Raising Voices community programme

Building partnerships with stakeholder organisations

Overseeing successful delivery and logistics of the programme

Liaising with specialist presenters, workshop leaders, partners and participants

Helping curate pieces from the workshops for inclusion in the StoryMap

Recruiting, training and deploying volunteers

Working within the budget and funders' requirements, keeping records and projections

Helping develop funding applications and raise funds for project extension

Delivering creative and volunteering outcomes

Overseeing and implementing publicity and media

Helping prepare and approve print and online publicity material

Gathering and analysing feedback to inform future planning

Maintaining records of outcomes and learning,

Attending and reporting progress to the Steering Group

Carrying out other activities reasonably needed to help deliver the programmes.

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How to Apply

Please apply for this post by sending your CV and a covering letter to [email protected]. Include two referees.
The closing date is midnight on Sunday 18th May.
Interviews are planned for the week beginning 19th May.

Supported with funding from MK City Council and MK Community Foundation

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