Job Opportunity

Job Description

Local Engagement Specialist

(Freelance position)

Fuel is putting together a team of brilliant local engagement specialists to help with the delivery of our New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood initiative, which runs from January to June 2013.

The nationwide project will use shows Fuel is touring in spring 2013 to Colchester, Malvern, Preston, Poole and Stockton-on-Tees as a springboard for research with potential audiences, with venues, with artists and with the people who make the shows. Fuel is working with Malvern Theatres to deliver the project in Malvern .

New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood is a project that aims to get people excited about the theatre we make. We’d like them to come to our shows. We want to find out more about Malvern and the people that live there and in the long term create performances in their neighbourhoods.

Fuel is currently seeking an enthusiastic and committed local engagement specialist to help us achieve our aims in partnership with the Malvern Theatres.

We are presenting two shows at Malvern Theatres in the spring:

The Victorian in the Wall by Will Adamsdale

26 March

“An ingenious comedy... deliciously leftfield fare” Time Out on The Summer House

A work-shy writer discovers a Victorian man living in the wall of his flat. Everyone’s pretty surprised. Adjustments need to be made. A new play from Perrier Award winner Will Adamsdale (Jackson’s Way, The Summer House) and co-produced by the Royal Court in London. www.willadamsdale.com

Zero by Clod Ensemble

7 June

“Clod Ensemble is one of those innovative and anarchic companies thrusting its way through traditional boundaries of drama.” 
The Guardian

Zero is set to an original score played live by a band of acclaimed musicians and featuring an explosive cast of performers. 

Zero is a world where nothing is certain – where women can be tigers and men can be snakes. Families, marriages and friendships are laced with sibling rivalries, frustrated desires and murderous ambitions.

Heavens open and lives fall apart. Here, we are all at the mercy of the stormy weather. At least we can still sing the blues. www.clodensemble.com

Local Engagement Specialist job description continued…

This is a freelance role and you will have your own base in Malvern or the surrounding area. We are looking for someone to work between March and June 2013. We anticipate this representing around 25 days work, spread evenly through the period.

Responsible to: Fuel’s New Theatre in your Neighbourhood Project Manager.

Responsibilities

·         With the support of Fuel, local partner venues and the Audience Agency, to identify key groups and individuals in the local area to get involved in the project.

·         To actively seek out and make new connections with local people. To talk to people.

·         To build bridges between these groups, facilitating dialogue and developing interest in Fuel and the Malvern Theatres.

·         To identify and talk to potential advocates and ambassadors in Malvern.

·         To enthuse Fuel artists about the local area and help them understand it and the people who live there.

·         To record all contacts made and conversations had and share them with the team on a regular basis.

·         To advise on and assist in the marketing of shows.

·         To assist in the collation of feedback from all parties.

·         To work with the Fuel and venue team to ensure a successful and enjoyable project for all.

Qualities

We are looking for someone who:

·         Lives in or around Malvern.

·         Has a strong knowledge of the local area and knows who to approach and where to begin conversations.

·         Has an interest in the arts and the kind of shows that Fuel produces.

·         Has some experience of marketing theatre shows.

·         Has some experience of working with communities.

·         Knows how to generate word of mouth.

·         Is good at talking to strangers – and enjoys it.

Contract

Freelance contract, covering the duration of the project. March to June 2013.

Fee

£1,875 (for approximately 25 days spread evenly over 6 months)

Base

We are hoping to develop relationships and create a base for this post in the local area but the candidate will also have their own base and equipment to work with.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email us your CV along with a written response to this brief, letting us know how you share the qualities we’re looking for and how you would begin going about the task in hand. Please use no more than two pages of A4 for your covering letter.

Please email your response to anne@fueltheatre.com, by 10am on Monday 4 March 2013.

Following this, if we would like to talk more, we aim to arrange a meeting at Malvern Theatres on 5 March 2013.