Full Time, Fixed Term Contract for 18 months £27K Salary
Role Overview
We are seeking a proactive coordinator within the Participation and Community team who works to broaden and diversify who can get involved with Rambert and broaden and diversify the ways people get involved. Rambert is seeking a proactive and highly organised Participation & Community Coordinator to join our dynamic Audiences team. This role sits at the heart of our Participation & Community work, helping to broaden and diversify who engages with Rambert and how they do so. You will play a central role in supporting a wide range of programmes and initiatives, including:
• On-site and online classes and courses through Rambert Plus and Rambert Classroom
• Our growing youth programme, Future Movement
• Our early years initiative, Early Moves
• Our outdoor festival, Feel This Free
• And crucially, Rambert Grades – our pioneering dance qualification framework developed in partnership with Rambert School and GCSE/A-Level specialists. The purpose of this role is to support Rambert Grades, and the Participation and Community team's core activity. This includes the delivery of classes and courses onsite and online for Rambert Plus, Rambert Classroom and supporting certification and membership for Grades, as well as supporting the Fanbase strategy alongside marketing colleagues coordinating marketing activity for participation and community programmes and helping with fan liaison on social media channels and by email. You will be the main point of contact for enquiries about activities from the public, partners, freelancers and colleagues.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
We want brilliant and daring people to work at Rambert – people who want to be here and are committed to excel in their contribution to the company's success. We're a team of skilled, motivated, and collaborative people and everyone is expected to engage in the life of the organisation.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills, experience, and personal qualities:
Essential requirements
• Knowledge of dance and dance learning with awareness of the needs of a range of audiences
• Experience of participatory arts projects with early years, children, young people, older adults and/or vulnerable people.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate people and multiple projects.
• Excellent administrative skills, including processing bookings and financial transactions.
• Good IT skills, with competence in using MS Office
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A self-starter, able to work independently and handle a varied workload with precision
• A team player and able to work collaboratively and support colleagues.
• A creative thinker and proactive problem solver.
Desirable requirements:
• Experience of working in an arts, arts learning and/or community arts setting.
• Knowledge of health and safety and accessibility in a dance learning context.
• An interest in contemporary dance, and the work of Rambert.
• Competence in reading and understanding budgets & contracts, including those with staff, suppliers, venues, and artists