We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
St Helens Council is seeking to appoint a passionate, skilled, and motivated person to coordinate and manage our award winning and successful Local Cultural Education Partnership, CulturEd. As the Development Officer you will ideally have an arts or cultural background and training to the highest level with experience or appreciation of professional arts practice alongside experience of working with schools, children and young people.
The successful candidate will have knowledge of a wide variety of creative and performing arts, arts practice, and the cultural industries alongside a deep understanding of the school curriculum and the current issues affecting schools. You will have strong organisational and communication skills and will be an excellent negotiator and advocate for the arts with a wide variety of audiences. Key tasks of the role will include:
• creating the annual schools’ offer of support, CPD and practitioner visits
• monitoring the CulturEd budget and seeking additional sources of external income
• evaluating and quality assuring the LCEPs projects and ongoing work of its practitioners and partner organisations
• challenging and supporting schools create a broad and balanced curriculum offer for their pupils within your artistic specialism and commissioning similar work for other cultural curricular areas.
If you would like to discuss this role informally prior to application, then please contact Jeremy Sleith on Tel: 1744677946 or email: jeremysleith@sthelens.gov.uk
The post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Thank you for your interest in working for us.
If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
