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Festival Coordinator Expression of Interest

Whalley Range Community Forum (WRCF) and Whalley Range Youth Opportunities Association (WRYOA) are looking for a highly organised Freelance Festival Co-ordinator to oversee the Celebrate Festival 2024.

 Fee: £3,500 (equivalent to 20 days at £175, to include all expenses).

You will work with an experienced steering group, volunteers, and music coordinator.

The 27th Celebrate Festival day will take place on Saturday June 8th in Manley Park, W/Range.

The theme of the festival will be Crossing Oceans and will utilize environmental, and migration themes. We will be preparing for the festival by lead up dispersed activities in venues around the community, e.g. in local schools and shared housing schemes.

We need a creative individual, with experience of organising similar community events to take this theme and create a vision to inspire participants.

Key elements of the role:

  • To develop and deliver Celebrate 2024, including a diverse range of activities.
  • To be responsible for the creative vision of the festival with a focus on quality
  • To communicate effectively with partners, community organisations, schools, artists, participants, venues, suppliers, licensing authorities etc
  • To recruit and manage freelance artists,
  • To be responsible, with the Steering Group, for managing the Festival budget
  • To promote the festival
  • To produce a final report for funders, including monitoring and evaluation.

Priority requirements:

  • Experience of successful project management including drawing up and managing budgets
  • Proven record in organising community events
  • Experience of successful participatory creative work in low income and diverse communities
  • Experience of partnership and team working
  • Experience of promotion and marketing
  • Experience of monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes

Work circumstances:

  • Based at JNR8. A willingness to work unsocial hours when required

 

How to apply: Please email your CV, plus one side of A4 showing how you meet the requirements to celebratefestival2024@gmail.com          

Celebrate Festival Coordinator 2024

Deadline: 9am. Monday March 18th.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 21st March 2024


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