Support & Resource Officers

The Promoters Arts Network (PAN) is looking for 3 dynamic and experienced individuals to co-ordinate and administer year 1 of our SRO project on a part-time basis.

PAN exists primarily to support and develop the independent sector of rural voluntary promoters in the Highlands & Islands. After successfully piloting theSRO project in the Black Isle and Easter Ross area, we are now rolling this project out to three new areas across the Highlands of Scotland – Lochaber, Wester Ross (including Skye & Lochalsh) and rural Inverness. The ideal candidate will be an experienced project co-ordinator with a proven track record in the arts sector.

The project is being funded by Highland LEADER, Creative Scotland and Amb:IT:ion Scotland.

Title of the position:
SUPPORT & RESOURCE OFFICER (3 positions available)

Reports to:
Central administrator and board.

Overall responsibility:
To liaise with voluntary promoters to identify and subsequently to deliver required training and support and to assist with the production and implementation of marketing, audience development and other strategies using Web 2.0 technology.

Key areas of responsibility:

• To meet with promoters individually to establish their needs

• To arrange and chair group meetings

• To arrange training opportunities

• To identify funding opportunities and assist with applications

• To liaise with potential touring artists & companies

• To advise on IT and web toolkits

• To structure group marketing & PR

• To assist with audience development plans

• To research and assist with technical requirements

• To liaise regularly with promoters

• To monitor the project and report regularly to the central administrator

• To evaluate and complete end of project reports

Term of contract:
12 months (starting September 2010)

Qualifications:

• At least one year experience working in an arts organisation

• Experience in fundraising

• A good understanding of management, structures and culture of voluntary organisations

• The ability to gather data and collate relevant information in a readable format

• Administrative skills necessary to provide the support and services required, proficient in 
  Microsoft Word, Excel, Web 2.0 technologies (extra training will be given)

• Good communication skills and the ability to report regularly to the central administrator and the board of directors.

Fee: 
A fee of £8,000 is available for each position. Each SRO will administer a budget of £6,000 for promoter support including marketing. The work is estimated to take between 60 and 80 days during the year. Out of pocket expenses will be reimbursed up to a total of £1,000.

Application:
To apply, send an email to info@panpromoters.co.uk with a copy of your c.v. and a letter giving more detail on why you are suitable for the job, plus two references. Please put SRO in the subject line.

Closing date:
Friday, September 3rd, 7pm

Interviews:
In Inverness, during the week beginning September 6th.

Background
PAN is a membership-led body at the heart of a network of around 75 voluntary and professional promoters. PAN members operate across half the geographical area of Scotland, throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

PAN provides networking, support and advocacy for its membership, specifically in assisting communication between touring companies, artists and local volunteer promoter groups, and by representing these promoters to stakeholders on a regional and national level. Over the past 18 months the organisation has been exploring ways in which it can significantly enhance this provision and build an infrastructure that serves its members in a more sustained, dynamic way.

Plans
PAN has secured Amb:IT:ion funding to commission a custom social networking platform that integrates all the core functions and services of the organisation into a single online location.

This platform will connect promoters with touring companies; link the profiles, skills and experience of individual committee members; be a pool of dynamic, editable, up-to-date information and expertise; automate administrative functions, such as annual subscription; provide space to discuss, debate and share ideas as well as collate and store data and provide documentation to aid wider advocacy to agencies and funders.

PAN aims to have this platform in Beta testing during Spring 2011, being gradually rolled out across the membership and made available over the course of the year.

The Support and Resource Officers will be part of the delivery of training and mentoring to members during the commissioning, development, testing and launch of the new web platform. In order to do this, the SROs themselves will be trained by PAN, HI~Arts and GANE personnel.