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MLA London is seeking to recruit a freelancer to project manage and deliver eight Young Cultural Creators projects in the London region working with schools, libraries, museums, archives and authors.
Fee: £4,000.00
Time scale: Work to take place from November 2007 - March 2008 Deadline for applications: 26th October 2007
Please see below for more information.
Project Manager
Young Cultural Creators Projects
Fee £4,000.00
Time scale Work to take place from November 2007 - March 2008
Deadline for applications 26th October 2007
MLA London is seeking to recruit a freelancer to project manage and deliver eight Young Cultural Creators projects in the London region working with schools, libraries, museums, archives and authors.
1 Context
Young Cultural Creators (YCC) is a visual literacy project that has been running since 2001 providing opportunities for children and young people to explore creative writing and illustration through visits to museums, libraries, archives and galleries.
Through this project school groups are invited to participate in a series of structured visits to cultural institutions where they are introduced to collections of artefacts, art works and archival documents by best-selling children's authors, illustrators and other creative professionals. During the initial 'inspiration sessions' the young participants engage in discussions about literary themes and cultural heritage and are encouraged to research and draft their own pieces of written work, using items from the collection as stimuli for creative expression. The project also involves a visit to a local library to enable young people to undertake independent research and wider reading around the topics and themes. Follow-up activities in the classroom provide opportunities for further crafting of creative ideas before the project culminates in a celebratory presentation of the completed pieces of work.
YCC projects operate at four different tiers of involvement, with tier one offering full project management and all costs met down to tier four with no project management and only half of costs met with the aim of embedding the projects in institutions practice. For more information about the tiers please see appendix A.
For 2007-08 we have secured further funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families City Challenge and in addition to the 20 projects we are already running we are seeking a project manager to deliver an additional eight tier one projects.
2 Deliverables
We wish to commission for delivery by the 31st March 2008 eight tier one YCC projects, each project to involve one class; working with an author, local library service and an inspiration site.
The project manager will be required to:
* Recruit eight schools to take part in the project
* Recruit a published children's author(s)
* Broker links with the schools' local library service
* Broker links with an appropriate inspiration sites to host the class visits
* Set up a first meeting between partners to discuss project theme, visit contents and decide what the final celebration outcome will be (eg display in a local library, event at the school etc)
* Attend all events outside of the school to ensure their smooth running (library and inspiration site visits)
* Facilitate and collect evidence from an evaluation activity at the end of the inspiration visit. The Inspiring Learning for All framework is to be used for this.
* Submit a final report including summaries of each project, details of authors and institutions involved and numbers of children taking part and any evaluation collected, by 31 March 2008.
One author or inspiration site could work with more than one class. Contacts and guidance will be provided for authors, library services, museums and archives by the current project manager who will be working concurrently on 20 tier one and tier two projects until March 2008.
Targets
* Participants recruited and delivery dates agreed for eight projects by 1 January 2008
* Completion of projects by 31 March 2008.
3 Essential experience and skills
* Experience of running similar brokered projects
* Experience of working with museums, libraries or archives
* Experience of working with schools
* Experience of commissioning creative professionals
* Experience of managing budges
* Ability to demonstrate a creative approach to the project
* Ability to write clear and succinct reports
* Ability to demonstrate attention to detail
4 Application procedure
There is no application form. Please send a current CV and a 1-page outline describing why you would be suitable for this role and your relevant skills by the 26th October 2007.
Contact for enquiries
Samantha Cairns
Development Manager - Learning and Skills
MLA London
53-56 Great Sutton Street
London
EC1V 0DG
020 7549 1704
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