Altru Drama CIC is an award-winning, non-profit organisation, working with schools and the education sector to deliver drama performances, projects and workshops that make a difference to the lives of children and young people.
We are looking for a highly skilled Project Coordinator, to lead on the coordination of our drama days in schools.
Salary Range: £21,000 – £24,000 / 37.5 hours per week
Pro-rata possible – we are happy to explore part time working, but these would need to be spread across 5 days (Mon-Fri)
The role involves working with our core and associate teams of freelance practitioners to schedule staff onto jobs, work with them to ensure they have all planning and resources ready and evaluate once work is complete.
Ideally, we are hoping to recruit a drama practitioner or teacher who is looking for a different challenge. The role involves supporting our practitioners with their planning, coming up with creative ideas for drama workshop delivery and communicating those effectively both in written form and verbally to our team. If you are a drama practitioner, there may also be the opportunity to deliver on sessions as part of the role.
The Project Coordinator will be responsible for recruiting and training new team members and leading on safeguarding training. We will offer key person safeguarding training, but previous knowledge of child safeguarding procedures is preferable.
The role will also involve some admin including processing DBS checks and booking hotels & travel for team members working away.
We anticipate that the Project Coordinator will be based at the Altru office in L19.
There is scope for hybrid working once the probationary period is successfully completed.
On a day to day basis the role will involve:
- Contacting freelance practitioners and actors via email and phone to offer project work
- Using Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Drive and Dropbox to ensure staff have all necessary information for delivery in schools.
- Talking to staff about upcoming projects, supporting their delivery with creative ideas.
- Working with the General Manager to solve staffing issues and ensure they are up to date on staff availability.
- Observations of freelance staff at work in schools, including follow up conversations and action setting.
- Planning and delivery of training for new and existing staff.
- Identifying areas for project development and staff development.
- Booking hotels and travel for staff.
- Supporting the CEO and General Manager with other project based tasks as required.
Required experience:
- Experience of working in an arts and/or education setting
- Experience of delivering drama/creative projects
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of using Microsoft computer packages, in particular Word and Excel as well as Dropbox and/or Google Drive
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Required qualities:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work alone & unsupervised
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise tasks
- Flexibility to suit the needs of the organisation
- Sensitivity to confidential information
- All hands on deck attitude
Desired experience and qualities:
- Driver with own vehicle
- Experience of contracting and HR
- Proven experience of coordinating projects
- A passion and desire to provide creative opportunities for children and young people
This vacancy is subject to an enhanced DBS check and candidates should be aware that this must be completed and reviewed before any job offer can be confirmed.
Timeline: Application forms are available to download from our website http://altru.co.uk/about-us/work-with-us/ and should be returned along with a current CV to jobs@altru.co.uk before the closing date which is: 5pm on Tuesday 1st August 2023.
You will be notified on Thursday 3rd August if your application has been shortlisted, if you have not heard from us by then, unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 9th August 2023 at Altru’s office base in Garston.
Start date to be agreed but we anticipate this will be end of August 2023.
