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SalaryHours: 37 Hours Per Week
Term: Fixed until 31st March 2026
Interview Date: 29th April 2024
Closing Date: 19th April 2024
Salary: Hay Band B (£36,648 - £41,418 FTE)
Inspire’s Youth Arts team delivers music, dance, and digital arts projects from its Mansfield base and across Nottinghamshire, including a mixture of workshops, events, installations and showcases, reaching over 1500 young people aged 11 – 25 each year. Inspire Youth Arts (IYA) creates opportunities which develop young people’s creativity, confidence, employability and wellbeing and places access and inclusion at the heart of all its work.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Producer with knowledge of a range of artforms. The post holder will be required to work dynamically with the Inspire Youth Arts Manager to lead the IYA creative team and to work with a range of partners, artists, stakeholders, and funders to develop inspiring and inclusive arts and cultural opportunities for young people.
You will be an experienced events professional, ideally with experience in the cultural or creative sectors, who has a strong understanding of events programming and management, a flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic approach to teamwork, experience of successful bid writing and excellent project management and communication skills. Excellent time management and organisational skills are essential. You will have excellent understanding and knowledge of youth engagement, health and safety and safeguarding young people.
Working 37 hours per week including some weekend and evening working, the postholder will be based at The Old Library in Mansfield, with home working supported. The ability to travel across the county by your own means is essential.
We are committed to creating a safe working environment. We welcome applications from those underrepresented in our workforce - including but not limited to members of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, and/or those who are deaf/disabled and/or neurodiverse.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks. As such, this post will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Interviews will be held on 29th April at Inspire HQ, Glaisdale Parkway, Nottingham. On the evening of 30th April, shortlisted candidates will be invited to The Old Library, Mansfield where they will engage with young people who attend IYA’s weekly sessions.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Inspire Youth Arts Manager Rebecca Streets on Tel: 07584 345 685.
For more information about working for Inspire please visit: www.inspireculture.org.uk/work-for-us/
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Producer
Hay Band B
Job Purpose
To manage and develop activity that delivers strong partnerships and delivers both strategic and local arts policies, and inclusive projects and programmes
Key Responsibilities
- To be responsible for planning and co-ordinating the deployment of people and resources to meet the needs of customers.
- To build new and sustainable programmes, engagement and especially participation by underrepresented and targeted groups.
- To manage staff, freelance artists and volunteers as appropriate.
- To identify, apply and secure external funding to enhance and deliver new projects and increase access to arts for young people
- To lead on the initiation, development and delivery of external partnerships with community groups and other organisations at local, county, regional and national level in line with the business plan and identified needs.
- To lead on the initiation, development and delivery of externally funded programmes.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues in Inspire and external partners to develop and deliver services to increase range of sustainable arts and cultural opportunities in the county especially with respect of engagement by young people and underrepresented and targeted groups.
- To create and contribute to relevant plans, ensuring the setting and delivery of appropriate targets and standards
- To provide project management of arts programmes across all art forms including project planning, tendering, delivery, financial management, monitoring, evaluation, audits, managing risk, health and safety and safeguarding.
- To have an understanding of marketing and communication methods which will reach audiences and participants.
- The post holder will work in accordance with all Inspire policies and procedures, Inspire Brand guidelines,
Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) contractual requirements, and professional best practice
Education and Knowledge Required for the role
- Degree/postgraduate arts qualification and / or 3 years relevant industry experience.
- Knowledge of participatory arts sector locally, regionally and nationally.
- Good working knowledge of the principles and practice of people, performance, risk and project management.
- Good working knowledge of a range of IT applications incl. Microsoft applications.
- Knowledge of working to statutory and legislative standards.
Skills and Experience
- A minimum of 3 years experience of arts development and project management where performing arts development has been significant.
- Experience of initiating, developing and delivering services, leading staff, and managing resources and performance.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and providing financial data and reports.
- Experience of customer focused service delivery.
- Experience of working with partners across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Role Dimensions
- To provide a comprehensive range of opportunities to engage with the arts ensuring that the needs of customers and the service are being met on a day to day basis.
- Budget liability up to £20,000 including undertaking complex reporting processes, reconciling across several budgets and reporting regularly to senior management.
- Management of staff, freelance artists and volunteers as appropriate, including training and development needs.
Inspire Competencies
Customer Service (Competency Level 4)
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills – in person, online or on the phone - identifies and satisfies customer needs, adjusting their style with a friendly and professional approach as appropriate for the customer
- Responds positively to customer concerns, acts to resolve or reassure customers as needed, agrees solutions with the customer or hands over to an appropriate colleague
- Responds positively to any complaint or suggestion and seeks to resolve it within limits of their authority or hands over to a more senior manager as appropriate
- Monitors, analyses and acts upon customer service data to maintain and/or improve the service. Considers the impact on customers when implementing change
Deliver the service offer (Competency Level 4)
- Advises and promotes the Inspire Service Offer to customers – to meet their immediate needs and other services that could be of interest or benefit them
- Embraces any changes to the offer and any associated changes to processes or working practices positively
- Shares feedback about the Inspire offer with their line manager and contributes to meetings, discussions and related activities to ensure service delivery and/or improve our offer
- Leads work to develop, enhance or create new elements of the Inspire service offer and where appropriate ensure there is an integrated customer offer and journey
Communicating well (Competency Level 5)
- Communicates effectively in person, one-one-one, and in writing respectfully and in a style appropriate to the person and situation
- Communicates effectively in a meeting or other group situation, respectfully and in a style appropriate to the group and situation with a solutions / can do approach
- Debates or discusses positively with colleagues and line manager, sharing views and acknowledging and respecting the views of others and reaches agreement
- Communicates complex information concisely and clearly, negotiates effectively across teams, services or with external partners and reaches agreement with all affected parties
- Communicates effectively across all Inspire, with external partners and stakeholders, directly and through all appropriate indirect channels with clear messages that are understood
Working together (Competency Level 4)
- Adopts a friendly, helpful, supportive and respectful manner when working with others
- Acts in a way that shows they are trustworthy, reliable and transparent in their dealings with others
- Makes and implements decisions fairly, using good judgement and with integrity, in line with Inspire values and role modelling Inspire management and leadership behaviours
- Forms and maintains effective internal and external working relationships across the organisation, with partners and stakeholders motivated by achieving the best for our customers and in best interests of all concerned
Managing others (Competency Level 4)
- Effectively supervises and supports the day-to-day activities of a colleague(s) to enable them to perform their duties day-to-day, planning and co-ordinating the activity of colleague(s) to deliver tasks or activities over time to meet service demand effectively and efficiently
- Manages and reviews performance and attendance of individuals effectively, setting goals, agreeing targets and organisations training as needed, tackling poor performance or attendance if required using Inspire policies
- Manages their team and indirect teams effectively, monitoring group performance against service targets and acting proactively and positively in response to performance data to ensure service delivery targets are met
Leading the way (Competency Level 3)
- Incorporate the spirit of Inspire’s mission, vision and values in the work they do with customers, colleagues and stakeholders
- Articulate and share Inspire’s mission, vision and to enthuse and focus the efforts of colleagues
- Contributes to the decision-making process, stands by decisions made and owns them implementing them
Working efficiently and cost effectively (Competency Level 4)
- Uses Inspire resources and their time effectively to meet service demand, objectives and/or targets
- Plans ahead, making best use if time and resources available to achieve service delivery, maximising the use of technology available, minimising unnecessary travel or waste, prioritising work and working within spending limits
- Resolves competing or conflicting demand for resources and time effectively to meet the needs of themselves, colleagues and customers
- Manages a budget, forecasting activity and required spend, monitors service activity and actual spend and takes pro-active action to ensure budget target and/or savings targets are met
Skills and qualifications (Competency Level 6)
- Experienced Qualified (3 years or more): Degree (service related) or Degree + post grad service specific qualification
