hcmf// is recruiting

L&P post advert
Posted on 15.07.11

Learning & Participation Officer

Salary up to £21,850 pro rata

Part-time - Job Share, 3 days per week
Fixed term contract until 29 February 2012

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) requires a part-time Learning & Participation Officer with a minimum of 3 years experience of working in music outreach settings to jointly run our varied programme of creative learning projects.

You will develop links between the Festival, participant groups and partner organisations, build upon existing and create new projects with participants, and maximise opportunities for wider engagement with the local community. You will also liaise with a wide range of music leaders and participants, deliver workshop activity and outcome events, as well as carry out monitoring and evaluation.

You will need good communication and organisational skills, experience in fundraising, an interest in new and experimental music and tons of creative energy. The post is a 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) job share post from August 2011 - February 2012, with increased hours during the festival period in November (18 - 27 November 2011).

For further information about the Festival and our Learning & Participation programme please visit http://www.hcmf.co.uk
hcmf// is an equal opportunities employer. Criminal Records Bureau clearance will be required, application on appointment.

An application pack can requested by emailing r.hughes@hud.ac.uk
To apply please send a CV and a letter of application by post to:
Nikki Cassidy, hcmf//, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH

For more information please contact Nikki Cassidy on 01484 472103 or e-mail n.cassidy@hud.ac.uk
Closing date for completed applications: 5pm Thursday 28 July 2011
Interviews: w/c Monday 1 August 2011

 

Comments

  • HCMF Webmaster HCMF Webmaster

    at 12:37 on Friday 18 November 2011, wrote

    Many thanks for your valuable feedback - we appreciate you taking the time to contact us again this year. As you may be aware this is a time of pressure on all budgets, both for organisations and audiences alike. At hcmf// we do our very best to maximise our resources and we feel we get tremendous value for money from all our staff, across all departments in the valuable work they do and the activities we deliver. The 'hcmf// experience' is of the upmost importance to us and this is something we promote to all our staff and partners - that the Festival starts the moment people enter Huddersfield, and indeed the venues where our events take place. hcmf// endeavours to create a place for audiences to meet other Festival goers, bump into artists and relax between concerts to help generate the 'Festival' atmosphere. This year the hcmf// hub will again be in the Creative Arts Building Atrium on the University of Huddersfield campus. There is the Arts Café where you can grab a coffee and a sandwich, the music shop, an information desk where you can ask staff questions about events and how to navigate the town (where to go for dinner etc) and we will create some comfortable seating areas where you can relax with your newspaper between concerts. I wonder if you were able to take our advice last year and visit the Arts Café? Please do come along this year and introduce yourself to us. We can also recommend a range of other cafes and restaurants around the town that you may also want to visit. Our staff at the hcmf// information desk in the Creative Arts Building Atrium (adjacent to the café area) will be more than happy to help. hcmf// is one of the most magical and most electrifyingly atmospheric Festivals in Europe. We hope that you will join us this year and be part of hcmf// 2011, and thank you for your continued support in attending the Festival.

  • Steve Padmore Steve Padmore

    at 12:16 on Thursday 17 November 2011, wrote

    Perhaps you might like to employ a visitor experience officer to ensure that visitors to the festival have somewhere to be between concerts, a place to meeet other festival goers, a central place for information etc etc ..like other festivals manage? Huddersfield is bleak in November and the streets do not encourage hanging around!