The Audience Agency is seeking a specialist with varied experience in the cultural sector to lead our work in community engagement, participation and co-creation.
About the Audience Agency
The Audience Agency (TAA) is an independent, non-profit research and development organisation whose purpose is to enable a thriving, people-centred cultural sector, fit for the future, and better able to create cultural and creative opportunity for everyone.
We provide research, services and insight which help our network of clients and stakeholders adapt for and with their communities. Our friendly, collaborative team is a collective of committed specialists with backgrounds in the cultural and creative sectors, research and/or data science who share a passion for arts and culture and its power to transform society.
The Role: Senior Consultant
Lead for communities, participation & co-creation
We work with cultural organisations to understand their audiences, develop their approach and evaluate their activities. A critical aspect of this work is to help organisations develop empathetic, two-way relationships with their communities which result in organisations becoming more relevant and inclusive, and in citizens becoming more involved and shaping decisions. Sometimes projects are grassroots, and make a difference in a particular community, sometimes they help change local strategy, sometimes national policy.
We also specialise in supporting community and participatory arts, activities with a strong focus on social value or furthering cultural democracy, and on helping organisations betters serve people furthest from privilege. In all cases, your experience in community engagement and skills in co-creative facilitation will be valuable.
You will lead on projects which call for this insight and knowledge, and will support others in the organisation to ensure we deliver this aspect of our work to a high standard across all 5 of our activity pillars.
Contract
The Audience Agency welcomes applicants who are interested in full or part time positions, job-share, permanent or contract status, for this post.
For a permanent full-time contract, this post is offered at an annual gross salary of £40,000 (pro-rata proportionally if part-time).
A full time contract would be 35 hours per week which can be worked flexibly in agreement with your line manager.
The role is remote and the postholder can be located anywhere in the UK. Although your usual place of work will be your home (using computer equipment and software which we will provide), we will expect you to be available to travel to clients in the UK or internationally and attend in-person organisational meetings. The costs of travel in these instances will be covered. All applicants should have the right to work in the UK. We are not licensed by the Home Office to sponsor work visas.
Find out more by downloading our application pack.