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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