Learning and Engagement Apprentice

Summary

This post offers the opportunity to study towards Level 3 (Cultural Learning and Participation Officer). This is a great opportunity to work with the Arts Section at Warwick District Council, gaining skills, knowledge and experience of the district's arts sector.

Annual wage: £12,880 a year
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Training course: Cultural learning and participation officer (level 3)
Hours: Hours to be agreed with line manager.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Thursday 31 October
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

You will use a range methods to engage diverse audiences and to ensure they have opportunities to access, create and benefit from cultural activities. To overcome barriers to inclusion and engage with hard-to-reach groups
You will use arts, culture and heritage to enhance and improve learning through creative workshops, visits, talks, performances, events and digital arts, and using online content
You will communicate with stakeholders and partners and form positive relationships which ensure that the objectives of learning and engagement projects are met
You will plan, coordinate and schedule cultural education workshops and community engagement projects. This includes consultation, booking venues, appropriate choice of format for the audience, accessibility considerations, layout of venue, promotion and advertising information about the event, suitability of content and pricing restrictions. It also includes evaluation and review of participant feedback. To operate within strict budgets, delivering to agreed deadlines and standards
You will deliver learning and engagement events while ensuring that health and safety requirements and the principles of Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults are met. This includes the use of risk assessments, standard operating procedures and documenting and reporting events
You will identify appropriate sources of funding for projects and submit grant applications

Where you’ll work

Royal Pump Rooms

Parade

Leamington Spa

CV32 4AA

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED

Your training course

Cultural learning and participation officer (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Plan, organise and co-ordinate education and community engagement projects on behalf of the organisation, in order to ensure the facilitator (visiting artist or company colleague, freelancer or volunteer) can deliver effectively This could typically include deciding on appropriate content and information including producing event schedules, artist and technical riders, booking artists and practitioners.

Identify learning objectives of education and community engagement projects and suitability for target audience.

Work within a set budget, use appropriate resources, venues, systems and technologies to implement the CLP projects ensuring they meet stated objectives and outcomes.

Ensure projects comply with the organisation’s Health & Safety policies and procedures including Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Communicate clearly and effectively, adapting methods both verbal and non-verbal as appropriate to the stakeholder or audience, which may include public speaking and/or using social media and digital communication methods.

Communicate the CLP projects aims, which may include artistic or cultural outcomes, skills and knowledge development, or a range of social and educational outcomes to audiences, partners and colleagues.

Produce clear, concise project reports, fundraising applications and other written communications.

Find and participate in professional networks such as arts and culture networks, meetings and events, performances and exhibitions, training and professional development events and industry membership schemes, in order to benefit the organisation.

Establish, develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide variety of internal and external partners, artists, colleagues, participants and audiences that result in and/or enable successful projects.

Build effective professional arts and cultural networks and identify the benefits they bring to the projects and wider organisation.

Contribute and manage audience/participant/venue bookings and ensure artists/external practitioners are recruited for projects as per the organisation’s policies and procedures, including contracting requirements.

Maintain artist/external practitioner and audience records as directed, which may include personal information, in-line with employer systems and data protection requirements.

Have excellent time management skills, demonstrating your ability to be organised, meet deadlines within project timeframes and meet budgets requirements.

Evaluate projects and use feedback to improve current and/or future activity.

Provide high quality content, which may be in written or image form, as required, to internal/external communications for example e-bulletins, newsletter content, posters, print and meetings, to aid the promotion of, and engagement with, the organisation’s learning and participation programme.

Contribute to fundraising activities including desk research on potential funding sources, note taking at audience consultation meetings, compiling data and information.

Identify problems, generate and form ideas to resolve issues, by thinking creatively in response to challenges and identifying when to seek help and support from others.

Collaborate effectively with colleagues, creative and cultural professionals and other organisations and partners to achieve project aims and objectives.

Your training plan

Cultural Learning and Participation Officer Level 3.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4 or above)
Maths (grade 4 or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

The district council headquarters are in Warwick and Leamington Spa. It employs more than 500 people. The district council deal with issues such as waste management, the collection of council tax, planning/building regulations, council housing and council house repairs. The district was created on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the former Leamington Spa and Warwick municipal boroughs, the Kenilworth urban district and the Warwick Rural District.

Company benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme, Work Perks, Health and Wellbeing Scheme, Annual leave up to 32 days per annum.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Potential to progress to the next level of an apprenticeship
Look to secure employment

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