Creative Kernow – Cultivator Programme
Job Description for the post of Creative Business and Marketing Advisor -Museums and Public Galleries 0.6 FTE
Cultivator is an innovative project providing an integrated programme of skills and business development support for Small to Medium Enterprises in Cornwall’s creative industries. It is funded by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, Arts Council England and Cornwall Council.
The lead partner and the employer for this post is Creative Kernow http://www.creativekernow.org.uk/ one of Cornwall’s leading creative sector organisations; the project is managed as part of the work of Creative Kernow’s well-respected and long-established Creative Skills initiative.
Creative Kernow runs a number of projects in Cornwall apart from Creative Skills, with the key ones being Krowji, the creative workspace cluster in Redruth; the Carn to Cove rural touring scheme; the Cornwall 365 cultural tourism project and the FEAST community arts programme. The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee.
Cultivator partner organisations are Cornwall College, Real Ideas Organisation (RIO), Business West, the Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) and Plymouth University.
The project delivers creative specific Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG); mentoring; sector relevant training; a co-investment grants programme; internships and other activities with SMEs that enable students, graduates and non-graduates to gain industry relevant experience and skills. It works alongside the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly (C&IoS) Growth Hub and generic business support provision to deliver bespoke and highly specialist coaching, mentoring and targeted investment needed to build capacity and maximise the growth potential of the creative industries.
This is now the midpoint of the Cultivator project, which currently has an end date of September 2019. From the experience gained during the first year of working with the museum clients, a need has been identified for a Creative Business and Marketing Advisor to provide dedicated to support to the museums and public galleries across all aspects of business support, but with a specific focus on marketing.
Job Description
There are five Creative Business Advisors at the heart of the project, each with a dedicated specialist area and as a team working across the whole of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The role of the Museums and Public Galleries Creative Business and Marketing Advisor will be to:
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will also be required to carry out any other duties which may reasonably be required of you in accordance with the needs of the project. You will also be required to be flexible and adaptable with respect to your role.
Person Specification
Please note that only candidates who can demonstrate that they can meet all the essential criteria will be shortlisted
Skills/Experience
Essential
Desirable
Personal Attributes
Essentia
Organisational structure
The Creative Business and Marketing Advisor reports to the Project Manager and Cultivator Director
Key conditions of work
Contract Permanent contract (please note that the funding for this project is expected to run until the end of September 2019)
Pay £31,500 pro rata (£18,900 on 0.6 FTE basis)
Pensions Creative Kernow will automatically enrol you into The People’s Pension on 1st November 2016 if, on that date, you are: aged at least 22 but you are under State Pension age earning more that £10,000 a year (£833 per month).
If you don’t meet these criteria on 1st November but you do meet them at a later date, we will automatically enrol you into the scheme then.
If you are eligible to join, Creative Kernow will contribute 1% of your salary until 30th September 2017, 2% for the next 12 months and 3% from 1st October 2018. More details about the scheme are available on request.
Holidays 4 weeks a year rising to 5 weeks over 5 years plus bank holidays (pro rata)
Hours 22.5 hours per week
There is some degree of flexitime, but the post-holder will normally be required to work 5 days per week from 10am – 4pm as core hours. From time to time staff will be required to work unsociable hours. A TOIL system operates rather than payment of overtime, this is negotiable with the Project Manager.
Place of work The Cultivator office at Krowji, West Park, Redruth TR15 3AJ. The role will involve attendance at meetings or events elsewhere.
Probationary period There will be a four month probationary period
Equality and Diversity
Creative Kernow is committed to equality of opportunity in employment practices and the provision of services and expects that its policy will be supported by everyone in the organisation.
In line with our Flexible Working Policy, this post is open for applicants who wish to apply as a job-share partnership. Both candidates should complete an application form and state that they wish to be considered together.