JOB SPECIFICATION: CREATIVE CATALYST X 2
Position: Creative Catalyst x 2 Post 1: Matson and Robinswood Ward Location: Post 2: Cam & Dursley
Create Glos Create Local Programme:
Create Glos CG Director, Company Manager & Communications Lead. Support Team: Post 1 will be supported by members of: Culture Matson Wider Team: Post 2 will be supported by members of: Cam & Dursley Creatives. Both posts will be supported by a wider network of Creative Catalysts working in the following areas of activity: Create Health, Create Talent, Create Education, Create Leaders & Create Funders. £25,200 including travel & expenses. Any VAT chargeable is Fee: included within the fee
The fee is based on 144 days delivered flexibly - approx. 6 - 8 days per month - @ £175 per day.
Contract: Fixed term freelance contract
Timescale: May 2021 – December 2022
Hours: Times to be agreed in discussion with CG as required by the role, this will vary. The work is likely to take in the region of 1.5 – 2 days per week. There is likely to be some weekend and evening work required. Post 1: Hot desking in various community venues in Matson and Location: Robinswood. Post 2: Hot desking in various community venues in Cam and Dursley. You will also need to be able to work remotely or from home as CG does not have an office base.
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 It is a requirement of the role that the Creative Training: Catalysts complete CG’s catalyst Leadership Programme. If the successful candidate has not already completed the course, they will receive a free place (worth £1000) and will be expected to attend the 2021 programme. This equates to 12 online half day sessions, delivered between Sept- 2021 – March 2022 tbc. The course needs to undertaken in their own time. More info here catalyst 2020 — Create Gloucestershire
Further Details Create Local Programme.
We are recruiting 2 new Creative Catalysts to support Create Local, a key strategy in our mission to unlock more resources, time and assets for arts, culture, and creativity across Gloucestershire.
Create Local is a generational change programme. Through a range of arts & cultural activity, we want to better understand what enables and what undermines the development of vibrant creative communities. We will use learning from Matson and Robinswood and Cam & Dursley to seed work in other areas across the county.
Create Local Catalysts These 2 Creative Catalyst roles will be focused on two specific geographical areas to unlock more resources for arts, culture and creativity for the people who live or work there. Their role will be to bring people together across each community and hold creative conversations and collaborations in a way that welcomes difference and uses these diverse views to achieve change.
Post 1: Matson and Robinswood Ward Post 2: Cam and Dursley
The aim is to build on several years’ creative planning work CG has coordinated in these different communities. Two strong and trusted partnerships work together to shape arts and cultural activity in these areas-Culture Matson and Cam and Dursley Creatives (See Appendix 1 for more details). The Creative Catalysts will work closely with the partners who attend these groups as well as CG’s Support Team made up of a Director, Company Manager and Communications Lead.
The Matson Gateway will be a key anchor venue for activity in the Robinswood and Matson Ward and you will work closely with the new Matson Gateway Co-ordinator to identify cultural and creative programmes for this space. In parallel you will work closely with other community spaces in the ward. The Matson Gateway Co-ordinator recruitment will be live within the next month. Please check the GL Communities website for further information https://www.glcommunities.org.uk/services
Who we are looking for: Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 CG’s existing team of Creative Catalysts includes people with a range of backgrounds - creative producers, artists, community developers. They share a passion for creativity and equality and a flair for getting things done across different and sometimes unusual alliances in a community or organization.
There isn’t a clear road map or Create Local plan at this point. You will be excited by the potential to unlock the capacity of the community to make creative change, working across sectors, socio-economic groups, professional disciplines to challenge the obvious as well as the hidden barriers, inequality & hierarchies. You will be able to use flexible and creative approaches to draw out and test innovative, high quality creative and artistic interventions that welcome everyone. You will challenge norms and existing ways of working. The springboard for change will be local knowledge, assets, and strengths.
These roles are for people who are interested in developing their skills as a change agent/catalyst. Catalyst training, support and mentoring will be provided.
We are looking for people who are: committed to making Matson & Robinswood /Cam & Dursley more creative, equal, and prosperous places to live and work. an active listener, and excellent broker able to support people to develop new ideas. highly tolerant of uncertainty, comfortable with difference and fantastic at learning from unexpected or difficult experiences and results excited to work in an entrepreneurial, experimental context. generous and collaborative actively committed to making diversity, inclusion, and equity visible and meaningful in the planning and realisation of this work. can demonstrate credibility and trust in either of the 2 areas we are piloting - Cam & Dursley and Matson & Robinswood.
Detailed brief
Job Purpose
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 Each Catalyst is responsible for bringing the right people together to contribute to achieving the goals that build on local knowledge, assets and strengths in Matson and Cam and Dursley, and contribute to the wider CG Create Local programme. The “right” people will be different in each locality but will include working across sectors, socio economic groups, professional disciplines, organisational hierarchies, racial cultural and religious backgrounds, and include people who are paid, employed, freelance or volunteers.
The catalyst will host the partners to co-collaborate, design, build and learn together, and will hold the work on course in a way that his thoughtful, critically aware, and inclusive.
You will combine a passion for Matson & Robinswood and Cam & Dursley with a healthy objectivity, playing an active role where necessary but primarily focusing on enabling people, groups, and organisations to work independently through collaboration and inclusion.
You will connect unexpected people and processes and play an important role in the capture and sharing of new knowledge.
The key processes and principles that underpin Create Gloucestershire’s work to embed change within local communities are: • Co-production: producing solutions together with as many different voices as possible • Actively and explicitly including the voices of people who are not heard and not being complacent in seeking out the voices that are not there. • Using meetings as platforms to consciously build ‘containers’ that focus on what people care about and what contribution they’d like to make as community members • Working with people and communities by ‘going where the energy is’; working in places they are invited into by local people • Accepting and being open to tension and difference, and holding it creatively and respectfully
Responsibilities Embed CGs key processes and principles throughout the work. Plan, convene and host gatherings of people to contribute to achieving the aims of Create Local, with the organisational support of the Create Local Project Manager and strategic oversight of the Create Local Programme Lead. Create spaces for conversation and collaboration that are exciting, creative and well-held, seeking and welcoming difference and holding tension. Spot, and support, emerging opportunities for change. Enable them to take shape, secure support and resources, test viability and capture learning. Build and broker relationships. Explore and test how CG’s values, accountability and best practice can stimulate local creative change and avoid “bogging down” local energy and ambition.
Experience Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 Essential An expert change agent, able to create and hold spaces for others to achieve creative conversations, navigate difference and achieve new insights together. Solid working knowledge of Matson/ Cam and Dursley either in a professional or personal capacity Facilitation of diverse groups of people to achieve a common purpose or goal. Enabling effective communication and collaboration across sectors, organisations, or communities Use of different creative approaches and methodologies in group settings to achieve new thinking and behavioural shift.
Desirable Training in coaching, group facilitation, behaviour analysis and/or effective intervention techniques Training through Create Gloucestershire Catalyst Leadership programme. If you have not already participated in catalyst you will receive a free place in the 2021 cohort. Current experience of living and/or working in Gloucestershire, and ideally as part of the communities of interest
Capabilities The ability to bring a wide range of creative tools and approaches that helps groups to build relationships, spark ideas, channel energy and commit to action. The ability to spot and work with moments of inspiration and tension, catalysing breakthroughs and learning. And be comfortable sitting in the ‘in between’ spaces between sectors and organisations in order to serve the people making the work by creating safe structures, spaces and connections. Excellent written and verbal communication skills including active listening. Comfortable working with complex group dynamics Able to work constructively with conflict, difference and disagreement. Committed to ensuring people with diverse experiences and backgrounds are sought out, welcomed and included. Goal oriented; able to support group to move towards action. Can synthesise and summarise large amounts of information for clarity and understanding. Combines diplomacy, assertiveness and empathy in their facilitation and brokerage. Able to seek and find potential in people and processes. Responds well to risk, change and challenge. Ability to work effectively with others on and offline. Highly organised, independent, and self-motivated
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 How to apply
There are people whose background and experience is underrepresented in the creative industries, both in Gloucestershire and nationally. This includes women, Black and non-Black People of Colour, people with disabilities and people who are D/deaf and neurodiverse, and because of gender, sexuality, age, religion, marital status, socio-economic background*. We believe that discrimination or exclusion based on these, or any other characteristics or circumstances, represents a waste of talent and potential.
Create Gloucestershire’s Support Team is currently female-led and majority white, cisgender and non-disabled. We know that our work will be strengthened and improved with greater diversity in our team, and we would particularly welcome applications from people who would bring different experiences into the organisation.
*CG’s thinking about terminology is ongoing and informed by conversation and connection. We welcome all views to increase our understanding and get this as right as we can.
KEY DATES
Online event to find out more about this opportunity: 30th March 2021, 12noon – 1pm Application Deadline: 5pm Friday 16th April 2021 Interviews: Matson & Robinswood Catalyst – 22nd April 2021 Interviews: Cam & Dursley Catalyst – 23rd April 2021
Applications can be made via this Application Form, or as a video or voice recording (no more than 5 minutes) uploaded here, and must include: - Your name and contact details. - Why you are interested in this role and in developing your skills as a catalyst. - How you meet the essential and desirable Experience criteria. Please use examples to demonstrate your Experience and Capabilities. - Which of Create Gloucestershire's Key Principles and Processes, as described above, particularly resonate with you, and why? - 2 referees that have a good knowledge of your ability to put your Experience and Capabilities into practice. - A description of access requirements you may have, and what we can do to help remove any barriers.
The successful person should have the right to work in the UK and have: an adequate policy of insurance with reputable insurers to cover liability in respect of any act, neglect or default in the provision of the Services, and employer's and public liability. a current Enhanced DBS check. In the absence of these the person needs to be willing to apply for them. CG can provide advice on how to do this if necessary.
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 We have planned for interviews to take place in a community venue in the 2 areas if Covid restrictions have been lifted as planned. If not, the interview will take place over Zoom. If either option will present a barrier for you please let us know in your application statement and, if shortlisted for interview, we will agree an alternative interview method suited to your needs.
Please additionally fill in Create Gloucestershire’s Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form by following this link. The monitoring information you supply is anonymous and confidential, and the completed form is deleted once the data has been collated. This information is not sent to recruitment panels and has no part in our shortlisting process.
For an informal conversation, or further support to make an application, please contact Jay Haigh on 07897 121236 or [email protected]
Application Form Links Either: Text Application Form Create Local Catalyst - Text Application Form (google.com) Or: Video Application Form Link Create Local Catalyst - Video/Audio Application (google.com) And: Equal Opportunities Monitoring CG Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form — Form Link Create Gloucestershire
Find out more about the opportunity: Open Doors Event Booking - 1st April Zoom Event Booking Link 12noon
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 APPENDIX 1
Matson & Robinswood:
Create Glos is a key partner in a generational change programme in Matson & Robinswood, Gloucester, to place art and culture at the heart of the community. The ambition is to improve the well-being, health and employability of people there by developing a range of sustainable creative and cultural activities and spaces, underpinned with social enterprise expertise and support.
The Matson and Robinswood electoral ward, which includes the White City area, contains the largest social housing estate in Gloucester with a total population of 10,278 people, 4,414 households. Almost 40% of households in Matson and Robinswood are social housing tenants.
Matson has a long tradition of residents’ self organisation and co-operation to sustain local initiatives and community assets such as the local library, doctors, chemist and community spaces. Building on this tradition, GL4 Festival, supported by Strike a Light Festival, has recently acted as a catalyst for change, with a programme of arts and culture events across a range of different venues - these have sparked new possibilities and a growing sense of ambition and opportunity for the Estate.
Resources and funding for activity has come from a range of partners who form Culture Matson, a new network set up in April 2017.
Cam & Dursley:
Cam is a large village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds, and contiguous to the market town of Dursley. Together the population total circa 19,420, (Dursley 10,960, Cam 8,460). According to statistics compiled by Gloucestershire County Council the number of people in Cam and Dursley living in deprived neighbourhoods rank among the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England.
Not surprisingly therefore, Dursley has a higher than average number of working age adults recorded as receiving mental health related benefits, 3% against the average for England at 2.9%. The figures for people with mental health issues are based on Employment Support Allowance/Incapacity Benefit claimants who are claiming due to mental health related conditions.
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321 Create Glos is a founding partner of Cam & Dursley Creatives - a group set up in 2018 to jointly and creatively respond to community priorities. They meet regularly and have a Facebook page.
Resources and funding for activity stimulated by Cam & Dursley Creatives has come from various local funding bodies: projects are led by individuals or organisations within the group with others providing support, advice, resources, and advocacy to co-deliver work which makes a difference locally.
Registered Address: Suite 127, 20 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 2LY Website: www.creategloucestershire.co.uk
Registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee with registered number 07751321