Regional Community Facilitator - Media Lab - Auckland
Full time, 40 hour role
Central Auckland location
Around $54,000 - 65,000 per annum
Community Facilitator - Media Lab If you are a creative person who cares about your community, and is familiar with a range of multimedia tools, this is the job for you!! As a Community Facilitator supporting Spectrum Care's Aspirations Day Services and our Media Lab project, you'd be responsible for facilitating and developing skills-based learning sessions, particularly within creative practice and life skills. Our Aspirations service provides community and skills focused programmes supporting people with a range of disabilities. Sessions include cooking, bootcamps, screen-printing, horticulture and more. We have three sites, in Onehunga, Henderson and Kumeu. Your role within Aspirations would primarily be to identify and broker new programme opportunities, as well as support our front-line staff to improve our current programmes.
Media Lab is an inclusive programme designed to unearth and support development of creative practice for disabled people, in a variety of disciplines. We believe in creative practice and the acts of creation as a means of enhancing social connection and mental-wellbeing, and even to earn money, for disabled people. We believe that disability has no correlation with intrinsic creative ability, and work towards societal change to the broader people's perception of disabled people and what they are capable of.
Our Media Lab sessions range from beginners to advanced, primarily practical and fun hands-on group-based learning sessions. Content from sessions is often also used on our social media and video-sharing platforms, primarily Instagram/Facebook, and YouTube. We also plan to develop bespoke content, particularly for our YouTube channel, so an active interest or knowledge in this would be beneficial. The ideal candidate will have applicable skills, and good capability to research and quickly learn how to use various tools. You will be a confident creative, and have a good understanding of, and networks within, the music-making/creative communities of Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland.
It is strongly preferred that you have some familiarity with music hardware such as synths, samples, drum-machines and groove boxes. Ideally, you'll have a good eye for aesthetics and be able to present disabled artists in the best possible light, to support their journey into the mainstream creative community and to establish themselves as talented artists, regardless of disability. If you have skills in other areas i.e. video production/streaming, DJing, photography, screen-printing, stage lighting or other creative practices, this would also be a huge plus, as these are all areas we currently offer sessions in or have plans to do so in the future. You do not need to be expert in all, or even any, of these fields to be considered.
The main thing we want is a good basic multi-media skillset, a good attitude and personality, and a keenness to learn. Our current Media Lab social media channels: https://www.youtube.com/@medialabproject
This role is a full-time role, primarily standard day time working hours, with occasional adjustments for events etc. I. Some flexibility around hours may be considered. Salary range is around $54,000 to $65,000 depending on applicable skills, knowledge, and experience. If this sounds like the right role for you, or for more information, email us at rebecca.lee@spectrumfoundation.org.nz mentioning the job reference38360.
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