Cultural Events Assistant Producer
Vacancy Details
Summary | |
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Salary: | £22,425 per annum |
Location: | St Pancras |
Job Type: | Fixed Term Contract |
Vacancy Group: | Collections |
Category: | Culture and Learning |
Closing Date: | 19/03/2021 |
Date Posted: | 18/02/2021 |
Reference: | 03511 |
Description
Full Time,
Fixed Term For 1 Year
Break into
the arts! If you are passionate about words and cultural events then here's a
unique chance to bring your creative ideas to a wider audience, and get paid for
doing it. The British Library is looking for an enthusiastic and hard working
person to join its cultural events team for a year.
Based at
the Library’s iconic home in St Pancras, London, you’ll be fully involved in
putting together live and online talks, conversations, performances, festivals
and more, while helping us develop opportunities for new and emerging voices to
participate in the programme. This is a hands-on and varied role with opportunities to learn new
skills, develop your knowledge and meet new people, as well as use your
creative ideas and previous experience and skills in support of the position.
This job
is part of a wider programme called the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries,
which is designed and run by Jerwood Arts. Please see below for more details.
This
programme has been designed specifically for those who may be experiencing barriers due to inequalities
in UK society. We therefore encourage
applications from those whose socio-economic
background has potentially resulted in them having less access to opportunities
in the arts. For example, this could be those
who may have attended a state-funded school or college, perhaps were eligible
for free school meals at secondary school, or might have had no one else in
their family or previous generations attend higher education.
There are no restrictions
concerning where you have worked or what you have or have not have studied.
You may or may not have had a
previous job in the arts, but applicants will need to show experience
of working with words, either spoken or written, unpaid or paid. Examples could
include writing, blogging, lyric writing, spoken-word performance, magazines,
or running word-based events, or experience of creating, producing or curating
recorded content.
You
may or may not have higher educational qualifications (college qualifications
or University degrees).
Weston Jerwood
Creative Bursaries.
If you get this job
you will become part of a network with 49 other artists, curators and producers
from similar backgrounds called ‘Fellows’, all as part of Weston Jerwood
Creative Bursaries. You will all be near the beginning of your life as
professional artists and creatives, starting new jobs within three months of
each other. It is likely that many might have faced similar and interconnecting
barriers to working in the arts previously.
Fellows will join
the Professional Development programme led by people make it work, which will provide support and training and will be co-created with
you.
You will get a
mentor (from outside the British Library) to work with during
your Fellowship. You’ll also receive guidance from Arts Emergency who have significant experience in how to identify and make the most of
a mentor. Throughout the programme, you’ll also be supported by the British
Library and Jerwood Arts to help you work out your next steps after the year is
over.
Jerwood Arts have
run this programme three times over the past decade. You can hear about other
peoples’ experiences of the programme here.
For
more details on all the above visit https://jerwoodarts.org/projects/weston-jerwood-creative-bursaries-2020-22/
In return we offer a competitive salary
and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension
scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become
members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes 20.9%.
Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible
working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the
week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top
of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.
More about the British Library
As
one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s
intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research,
inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in
most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have
manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores,
and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We
operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of
items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we
preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in
the future by anyone, anywhere.
In return we offer a competitive salary and a
number of excellent benefits. Our
pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can
become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a
minimum of 20.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit
the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which
could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5
days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from
entry and public and privilege holidays.
Please complete the Socio-Economic
Diversity and Inclusion Form associated vacancy documents and return to BL-Recruitment@bl.uk once you have submitted your application.
Closing
date: 19 March 2021
Interview
date: TBC
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident employer, and make a commitment to recruit and support disabled people. We guarantee an interview for disabled candidates who meet the minimum (essential) requirements for a vacancy
In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions:
- Do you currently have the right to work in the United Kingdom
- Are you currently a British Library employee or agency member of staff?
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Contacts | |
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Contact 1 | |
Contact Name: | Employee Services - Recruitmen |
Telephone: | 01937 882030 |
Email Address: | EmployeeServicesRecruitment@bl.uk |