Closing date - 06 December 2024
Interview date - 11 December 2024
Contract period – 03 Jan 2025 to 31 Jul 2025 (anticipated equivalent of 2-3 days’ work per week during this period, to be discussed with candidate)
Fee - £7000 (fixed-fee) for 2 days a week or £10,000 (fixed-fee) for 3 days a week

Please feel free to contact us at learning@factoryinternational.org if you require any support in completing your application

We are looking for two Creative Learning Facilitators to co-deliver Factory International Schools, Factory International’s year-round partnership programme for secondary schools across Greater Manchester.

Factory International Schools is our pioneering year-round partnership schools’ programme. Factory International Schools unlocks the artistic commissions happening at Aviva Studios with trips, artist workshops, performance opportunities, and a young people's festival which will take over Aviva Studios in June 2025.

Experienced, practicing artists deliver weekly interdisciplinary workshops schools, linked to commissions happening at Aviva Studios, which are designed to improve young people’s wellbeing and social and emotional learning. The programme is designed to build aspiration, ambition and wellbeing with young people at risk*. Over the course of the year, we track both attainment and attendance to see how improvements impact young people’s overall chances of making a successful transition to adulthood.

We are looking for the below skills/experience:

• Specialist in one or more art form, e.g. film-making, poetry, photography, visual art etc. This could also be called ‘interdisciplinary artist’
• Able to deliver high-quality creative workshops in a school setting, including Secondary and/or Special Educational Needs (SEND)
• Ability to support young people’s social and emotional learning through creative workshops and adapt sessions to suit young people with varying needs from varying backgrounds
• Experienced in supporting learners with challenging behaviours, including working with pupils with autism, specific learning difficulties and other special needs
• Experienced in monitoring and evaluating programme success and building reflections and learnings into future planning
• Able to develop interdisciplinary creative curriculum with a focus on social and emotional learning, play, creativity, collaboration, care and sharing/performance
• Able to support the next generation of emerging facilitators and creatives in the delivery of the programme
• Experienced in co-creating work with children and young people.
• Ability to translate young people’s ideas into performances or products, such as a zine, performance or exhibition at Factory International
• Experienced in planning learning sessions with clear objectives
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding young people, including an ability to take action and raise concerns, understanding of how to form appropriate relationships with children and young people and maintaining professional boundaries and a commitment in upholding the values and behaviours and expectations of good conduct
• Commitment to championing representation and inclusion within their role with a broad understanding of the challenges young people and communities across Manchester face
• Willing to get take relevant statutory checks including an Enhanced DBS (Factory International can support with processing and payment)
• Experience of delivering creative sessions using technology (Desirable but not essential)
• A car user with access to a vehicle (Desirable but not essential)

Application Process

If you’re interested in working with us, please express your interest by sending your CV & covering letter to Amber Calland, Creative Learning Manager, amber.calland@factoryinternational.org, highlighting:

• How you meet the criteria for what we need in this role
• Why you’re interested in the role
• Your availability

Context
Aviva Studios is a new global destination for arts music and culture that opened in the heart of Manchester in 2023. Programmed and operated by the team behind Manchester International Festival (MIF), Factory International commissions, produces and presents an ambitious year-round programme of original creative work, music and special events by leading artists from across the globe in its landmark new venue, online and internationally. It also stages the city-wide Festival every other year at Factory International and at venues and spaces across Greater Manchester. Driven by the same interests and ambitions that defines MIF, artists will be encouraged to create work in new ways, to collaborate across disciplines and blur the boundaries between art and popular culture.

Creative Learning at Factory International supports the communities of Manchester, Greater Manchester and the North by delivering creative and relational learning programs both in communities and Aviva Studios. Through our bespoke programs, we build relationships with communities and aim to improve wellbeing through creative activity. We are looking for a Creative Learning Facilitator to plan and deliver in-school workshops as part of Factory International Schools programme. 

We are looking for a Creative Learning Facilitator to deliver the Factory International Schools 2024-25 programme in schools across Greater Manchester. Creative Learning Facilitators will be embedded in partner schools on set days each week of the academic year. The Creative Learning Facilitator will co-deliver weekly workshops in our partner schools, working with the same Year 8 and Year 9 students each week

Creative Learning Facilitators will be experienced in delivering workshops across a range of theme’s, topics and art-forms and will have the ability to adapt and be flexible with session content. Creative Learning Facilitators will be a specialist in one or more art-form with the ability to shape a portion of the programme around their specialism. . The sessions cover a range of creative art forms ranging from fashion, poetry, photography, film and performance. Creative Learning Facilitators are not expected to be an expert in all art forms but must be able to adapt their delivery style to suit the curriculum being delivered.

Creative Learning Facilitators will be responsible for researching and planning sessions solo and in collaboration with Guest Artists who will co-deliver the programme at various points across the programme.

Creative Learning Facilitators will work with young people towards a final showcase at Factory International in June 2024. The recruited Creative Learning Facilitators will have the ability to encourage young people to share their voice and feel empowered through the process.

*We define an at-risk young person as someone at risk of exclusion from school due to behaviour or attendance.

Factory International are committed to safeguarding and protecting the people that use our facilities, engage in our activities and events, creating a setting where everyone feels welcome and safe. This role is subject to a safer recruitment process which includes scrutiny of employment or training history (where relevant), robust referencing and may include a check on your criminal record history if the role involves contact with children, young people or adults at risk. This is in line with our DBS & Ex-Offenders Policy and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974