MTW is recruiting a Project Manager on a freelance basis to support us with the delivery of our Future Directions programme across Rhondda Cynon Taff county over a 12 month period.
Fee: £6,000 (plus expenses) for up to 30 days work between May 2024-May 2025.
Future Directions is a young people’s programme that explores how opera can become a powerfully expressive form for people of all backgrounds and identities. Working in collaboration with professional artists, a young, neurodiverse group of people devise and make a new digital opera, exploring their ideas and learning from and inspiring each other and the supporting artists.
Future Directions is an annual project that sits at the core of the Company’s main activity. The project is delivered in partnership with Hijinx Theatre. In 2024-2025, the project will take place in and around the RCT area and is supported by RCT County Borough Council.
We are looking for an individual who brings experience and expertise in project management and community engagement, who can work at pace to efficiently deliver and report on the funded project from end-to-end. Knowledge of the RCT area, and it’s creative and youth services, is key to success in this role so we are keen to recruit someone working or living within RCT or with demonstratable knowledge of the RCT community.
A full job and person specification, as well as further details of the project timescale, can be found on our website here: Opportunities | Music. Theatre. Wales. | Music Theatre Wales
Contract: Freelance contract for approx. 12 months (dependent on start date)
Days/Hours: Flexible and part-time, up to 30 days over the contract period.
Based at: This is a remote/home-working role as we expect candidates to be based in RCT or spend periods of time there. Some in person meetings in Cardiff may be required and should the chosen candidate wish to work from MTW’s offices at Chapter, Cardiff, this will be welcomed and accommodated.
Fee / benefits: £6,000, based on £200 per day for 30 days work.
Reasonable and pre-agreed expenses will be reimbursed – these will be discussed and agreed based on the postholders home base / working location.
MTW offers an Employee Assistance Programme via Health Assured which provides health and wellbeing support for anyone working for MTW on either a permanent, freelance or volunteer basis.
MTW is committed to supporting ongoing professional development and will work closely with the postholder to ensure that their needs in this area are met. Recognised safeguarding training will be provided and paid for as part of the role.
Closing date: Friday 10 May, 12 noon
Interviews: Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 May via Zoom or in person at MTW’s offices in Chapter, as preferred.
Start date: ASAP following interviews; ideally by end of May 2024.
Application is by email / cover letter and CV to kathryn@musictheatre.wales.
If you would like to submit your application in a different format, we would be happy to accommodate this. To discuss this, or to chat through any additional access or inclusion requirements or other reasonable adjustments, please contact Kathryn as above.
At Music Theatre Wales we are committed to achieving greater equality as an organisation and as an employer, and is committed to improving its diversity in order to reflect the communities it serves. We encourage applicants from the broadest range of backgrounds, with different skills and experiences to bring into our organisation. As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce we provide a guaranteed interview scheme to applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the job who are disabled, neurodivergent or people of the global majority.
To ensure our interview process is accessible to the widest candidate pool, we will provide all candidates with interview questions, and details about the format of the interview, in advance.
As MTW is located within Wales and this role to be embedded within RCT, the ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this position.
Closing date: 10/05/2024