Location: Significant responsibility onsite, some scope for working from home.
Department: Content
Report to: Producer – Public Programmes
Responsible for: N/A
Salary: £27,825 per annum
Contract: Fixed term, six months parental leave cover.
Working hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours a week (1.0 FTE) Monday-Friday. Please note, this role includes occasional evening and weekend working.
About We The Curious
We The Curious is an educational charity and South West England's leading science centre.
We produce experiences that bring people together to play, get creative with science and explore different ideas.
We work with partners, locally and nationally, supporting people to be inquisitive, develop new skills and improve their wellbeing.
We are progressive, inquisitive, collaborative, playful and creative.
Our mission
Our aim is to connect and empower people through sharing creative experiences which celebrate unknowns in science.
Our work as a charity is driven by five key pledges:
_Cultivate Curiosity
_Include Everyone
_Open Up Science
_Sustainable Futures
_Build Resilience
You can find out more about these in our Manifesto.
About the role
Sitting within the Programming team, the Assistant Producer: Public Programmes plays a key role in the development and delivery of the wide-ranging public events programme at our busy Harbourside venue.
Working alongside the department lead and our other Assistant Producer, this role is expected to lead on content creation for our in-venue programme of events, as well as support the delivery of daily activities, workshops and participatory experiences.
Primarily focussed on engaging non-school audiences, you will be helping to create experiences that specifically appeal to families, adults, the under 5’s, priority audience groups and everyone in-between. You will be expected to help bring together ideas and research from across the arts and sciences and collaborate with professional and community partners to create experiences that are playful, accessible and ultimately cultivate curiosity.
What will you do in this role?
Role specific responsibilities
_Lead on research and development of new, high-quality content for the programme – creating new workshops, experiences and activities from scratch
_Work with different groups of people and spaces within our venue; working confidently and flexibly to adapt and create new content for different environments, audiences and on different themes.
_Support the department lead to project manage a broad range of events, creative collaborations, and partnerships (both short and long term) such as our family weekend and holiday programmes or projects with community/youth/academic partners.
_Support the departmental lead on our delivery schedule, including administration of timelines, deadlines, and staffing schedules
_Co-ordinate the logistics needed to effectively deliver the programme, including administration, cross-departmental liaison, procurement and compliance with organisational regulations and guidelines including Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Child Protection.
_Support face-to-face programme delivery both inside and outside our venue as required, including training the delivery team and supporting volunteers, alongside occasional weekends/holiday support on the venue floor.
_Feed into the development of strategy concerning the public programme at We The Curious in collaboration with your team and other departments as required.
What will you do in this role?
General responsibilities
_Support and assist the Audience, Marketing, and wider Programming team on all aspects of communicating our offer, including marketing campaigns, social media, and audience development.
_Collaborate with the Development team on any funding bids and reports relating to your area of work.
_Embody and demonstrate our values; Collaborative, Creative, Inquisitive, Playful, Progressive.
_Be responsible for carefully following safeguarding policies and procedures and raising any concerns to your manager/Designated Safeguarding Officer.
_Have general responsibility for departmental compliance with GDPR.
_Occasional out of hours work and travel to events may be required of this role.
_Due to the responsibilities of this role, you will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check as part of your induction.
What we're looking for from you
Essential
_Experience of developing and delivering a diverse range of events, activities, and workshops for the public across a range of disciplines
_Experience of working collaboratively with external partners
_Experience of working with audiences not well represented in the science centre sector
_Confident facilitator and communicator
_Experience of/competency in all aspects of project administration and/or project co-ordination
_Highly organised with excellent time management skills, an eye for detail and the ability to prioritise
_Able to work independently under own initiative and under supervision
_Flexible and adaptable team player with good interpersonal skills
_A STEM based degree or experience of working with STEM ideas and concepts
Desirable
_Experience of working for a public venue on their events programme
_Experience in training and coordinating delivery staff and supporting volunteers
_Demonstrable experience of translating complex topics and concepts to make them accessible and engaging to a non-specialist audience
Application process
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 28 August 2024 at midnight.
Interview date(s) and location: Tuesday 17 September 2024, in person at We The Curious, Bristol. Online interview requests will be considered for those unable to attend in person.
Start date: Wednesday 23 October 2024.
Application process: If you would like to apply, please complete the application form, it contains three questions designed to assess your experience and suitability for the role.
Please do not submit CVs or covering letters as we don’t review them.
We appreciate interviews can be stressful, so we try to make them more of a conversation and a chance for you to tell us about how your skills and experience make you the right person for the role.
If you are invited for interview, we’ll send you the questions that you’ll be asked beforehand so you have time to prepare.
If you have any particular needs or requirements, please do let us know so we are able to make the required adjustments.
If you would like to talk about the role or the application process, please email people@wethecurious.org
Support during the process
We The Curious is a Disability Confident Employer and we welcome applications from candidates who self-assess themselves as having a disability. We will guarantee an interview to applicants who advise that they have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy. To help you, under the Equality Act 2010 a person is defined as having a disability if a) they have a physical or mental impairment, and b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
We want to work with you to ensure the recruitment process is accessible for you.
If you are disabled, neurodivergent, or if you have a long-term health condition, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.
You’ll have the opportunity to let us know about any adjustments you may need throughout the application and selection process. We’ll continue this conversation if you join us as a staff member, and we’ll work with you to make sure you have the adjustments you need to succeed in your role.
Examples of adjustments could include:
_providing alternative formats at every stage
_options to apply
_extra time for tasks
_providing some extra information about what to expect
_office orientation before an in-person interview.
Including everyone
We value the positive impact greater representation will have on our organisation, programmes and culture. It’s our goal to become an inclusive place to work and for our teams to better reflect our city and the people who visit us.
We welcome applications from people of all lived experiences and particularly those that are not well represented* in the science centre sector.
We want to work with you to ensure the recruitment process is accessible for you, please contact us if you have questions about We The Curious, our accessibility or recruitment process at people@wethecurious.org
*By not well represented we mean people with lived experience including but not limited to:
_African and African-Caribbean heritage
_South Asian and East Asian heritage
_Other global majority ethnic groups
_Disabled
_Neurodivergent
_Visually Impaired
_Deaf community
_LGBTQIA+ and/or non-binary
_Working class background
_Didn’t go to university or first in your immediate family to attend University
Working with us
We value the people that work with us. Our staff have access to the following:
Wellbeing & support
_Flexible working
_Hybrid working
_Mental Health First Aiders
_Confidential advice & counselling through the Employee Support Programme
Leave
_25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (all pro-rata).
Facilities & discounts
_Free entry to the venue at any time with up to four guests, plus 12 additional entry tickets per calendar year to give away.
_15% off in the We The Curious café
_20% off in our shop
_Range of discounts with local businesses and free entry to other local attractions.
_Free parking
_Secure cycle storage
Pension
_We offer a pension scheme with 5% company contributions.
Death in service benefit
_Four times your annual salary.
New Parent Policy
We are proud to be a family friendly organisation, which is why we work to develop our people practices in line with that value. We have recently introduced a none gendered approach to Maternity and Paternity, re-branded as our “New Parent Policy”. There are eligibility criteria and terms and conditions, but the key take away is that anyone who is due to become a new parent, regardless of their gender, can take one year off work, and we’ll pay your full salary for the first five months.