Community Producer: Job Description Title: Community Producer Reports to: LeftCoast Creative Producer Responsible for: Casual staff/Commissioned artists Located at: Across project spaces Blackpool, with an office base at Blackpool School of Art Job purpose: To have purposeful conversations with residents that develop into collective action with societal and artistic outcomes Primarily our Community Producer needs the skills and qualities to foster and maintain positive relationships with our neighbourhood residents, local partners and commissioned artists. The Community Producer will have a good understanding of socially-engaged arts practice and bring excellent organisational skills, patience and resilience to this unique role. They will create space for resident conversations to notice, listen and respond to the associations being made and ideas being exchanged between people. This will actively influence what opportunities we can co-create or consolidate in our communities based on conversations and knowledge they gain from working with residents, which in turn will impact which artists we commission to work alongside us. While not being prescriptive, the intended outcomes of our programme is to use art and creative activity and processes to connect people with the place they call home. Within our forward programme this includes expanding that connection to land, environment and people to create new stories of place based identity, activation and pride. Our work often reduces social isolation and holds space for residents to work collaboratively resulting in shared decision making. The role will also be required to support volunteers within LeftCoast’s work. Volunteers work with us in a variety of ways from supporting workshop delivery, to community observers within neighbourhoods and more traditional stewards roles at event. We try to find ways of working with volunteers through opportunities that suit their specific interests. Community Producers will identify and work with any individuals, communities or organisations that want to make a tangible and positive difference in the places where they live/work