Current opportunities:
Artist call out
Our creative learning team is recruiting a pool of freelance creative practitioners from across all artforms. Practitioners will deliver inspiring projects aimed at empowering people to realise their potential through creative and collaborative experiences to develop their skills.
Creative practitioners deliver a wide range of bespoke arts-based projects and sessions which will be codesigned and tailored to meet the needs of individuals and communities. Each creative learning project is matched with artists who provide creative support over a number of sessions. Outcomes may include improving engagement with learning; supporting health and wellbeing; developing specific skills readying for the workplace; and further learning.
We are keen to hear from artists, collaborations, and organisations working in a variety of settings. This includes visual artists, designers, digital artists, photographers, theatre practitioners, and movement specialists.
The freelance creative practitioner role includes:
Developing and delivering inspiring sessions in partnership with relevant project teams to ensure project outcomes are met.
Contributing to project evaluation, documenting sessions, and exploring creative ways to collect experiences and impacts.
Sharing project plans with the relevant project team, identifying themes and activities.
Maintaining an environment that is safe and welcoming for participants throughout project delivery.
Effectively communicating with project stakeholders, contributing to the sustainability of projects and learner equity.
Dates and locations for project work will be agreed before the start of a project contract.
To make an enquiry or submit an application email creativelearningteam@aberdeencity.gov.uk using the subject Freelance Creative Practitioner. The application deadline is 5pm on Sunday 29 September. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 2 October.
Pay
All projects are funding dependant. Creative learning aims to pay creative practitioners in line with the Scottish Artist union rates of pay. As part of Aberdeen City Council, Creative Learning are required to meet statutory minimum wage.
Applications
Applications should include:
- A 700 word statement detailing your skills, experience, and suitability for the role identifying the areas of the council's creative learning work that interests you and why, and what you would bring to the team. Our current areas of work include: early years; primary and secondary education; employability; older people; parental engagement; health and wellbeing; young people, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and family wellbeing.
- Your CV with two references including your most recent employer (referees will only be contacted if successful.)
- Creative practitioners are required to have an existing/recent PVG for working with children, be in the process of joining, or show willingness to join if successful.
Contact details:
Creative Learning Team
Top Floor
Rosemount Learning Centre
Belgrave Terrace
Aberdeen
AB25 2NS
01224 611161
creativelearningteam@aberdeencity.gov.uk