Overview
About the role: The Arts, alongside sport and youth work, is at the heart of HideOut’s offer to young people. The Arts offer is wide ranging and includes visual arts, music, media, dance and drama. As a member of the Arts Team you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and creative arts programme that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single or range of arts activities, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills.
Responsibilities
* Be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single or range of arts activities, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills (as part of the Arts Team).
* Contribute to delivering an exciting and creative arts programme that is challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental for young people.
* Collaborate with the team to ensure a diverse and high-quality arts offer.
What we are looking for
* Experience delivering one or more of the following arts: Visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, set design, etc); Photography; Textiles; Fashion; Costume Design.
* A passion for working with young people and supporting their creativity and development.
About EMPOWER
Empower Youth Zones is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton (East Manchester) which opened in 2020, and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, which opened to young people in June 2025. HideOut and Salford Youth Zone provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to talk to.
About Onside Youth Zones
Youth Zones are part of a national and growing network of Onside Youth Zones. There are currently 15 active Onside Youth Zones across the UK with 20 due to be open by 2025.
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