Do you have strong experience of delivering training in storytelling, role-playing, voice-acting or improvisation techniques? Are you able to work collaboratively with other creatives, and do you have experience working with young people? Are you interested in Table-Top Role-Playing Games (TTRPG) and/or Derby's local history? If so, we need your skills and expertise to help ensure the blend of fantasy and historical fact within the campaign provides a strong and compelling narrative. Collaborate with the Game Master in developing engaging campaign story-lines and support our young volunteer players to develop their role-play skills. Narrate their recorded adventure and deliver workshops to help bring this exciting project to a wider audience. Our project, made possible thanks to National Lottery players, will see young volunteers coming to the Local Studies Library to create a fantasy role-playing campaign, based on Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast. They'll work alongside library staff, a Game Master and a range of professional creatives to uncover stories from the library's archival collection and weave them into the game. The work you complete with the Game Master and volunteer players will enhance a full campaign pack, to be released for all to play towards the end of the project. Your skills will provide continuity and a compelling narrative for a series of podcasts, following the campaign as it is played and introducing the game and the library to a wider audience. Timeframe: August 2025 - March 2027 Fee: £3,300 indicative of 12 days. Derby-based. To attend regular project sessions, working with the Game Master and volunteer players to understand the relevant Dungeons and Dragons character traits and their historic research, ensuring this blend of fact and fantasy retains strong, consistent and compelling narrative qualities. To collaborate with other project personnel and volunteers, sharing the theory and mentoring them in the practical skills of your profession, whilst responding to the ideas and feedback of others. To plan and lead delivery of four public engagement activities, promoting the project to a wider, family audience. To attend project review/planning meetings with Project Manager, Project Coordinator and other project personnel. To engage with and contribute to the project evaluation. To bring expertise in storytelling techniques and narrative devices to the project. To provide any necessary equipment or materials, as necessary to fulfil your role in the project. To ensure narrative voice-over work is produced to a high standard, is engaging and reflects the tone and content of the game. To lead two 1.5hr-2hr storytelling / role-playing skills workshops for a group of 12 young volunteer players To work with the filmmaker to help script and to provide recorded narration for 6-8 podcasts, each of approx. 1hr-1.5hrs total runtime. To be responsible for their own liabilities, including but not limited to public liability insurance, National Insurance and tax contributions, UK employability status, enhanced DBS check and have received safeguarding training in the last 2 years (or be willing to undergo some). Recorded narration and any other recorded project output to be provided to Derby Libraries and the public under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY-4.0). Please email [email protected] to obtain a detailed brief and instruction on how to apply.Job Summary
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