An exciting and challenging opportunity to join Eden Court’s vibrant and ambitious creative learning and participation department for a fixed term of nine months between February – October 2025.
JOB TITLE Arts Practitioner – Theatre
CONTRACT TYPE Fixed Term: February – October 2025
SALARY £24,453 per annum, pro rata
HOURS OF WORK 22.5 hours per week
Your typical days of work will be a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with regular evening work on Mondays.
LOCATION Eden Court Highlands, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA
You will be based at Eden Court in Inverness, though you may travel to different communities across the Highlands. Some home-working is possible in agreement with your line manager.
DEPARTMENT Engagement
LINE MANAGER Head of Engagement
Creative Engagement at Eden Court is founded by their core belief in cultural democracy; that everyone is an artist and everyone we encounter has the skills and experiences to be creators of culture. Eden Court’s Engagement Department delivers creative arts projects, facilitates civic conversations and devises programmes of activity across the Highlands for people of all ages and abilities. Everything they do is imagined and delivered by their team, as well as freelancers working across the Highlands and Moray.
This is a great opportunity to spend time embedded in a professional theatre venue. During the duration of this fixed term post you will work with the junior Youth Theatre groups, deliver activity as part of the summer programme and work on their Teacher Development Fund project with rural schools across the region. The successful candidate will have access to CPD/training and as well as the opportunity to learn from the skills and experiences of your colleagues.
This role is ideal for a practitioner who has previously delivered creative engagement, learning or participation projects using theatre to children and young people. Perhaps you haven’t worked for an arts organisation as an employee before or perhaps you have limited experience and are looking to further develop your skills and understanding of participatory practice.
They welcome interest from all sections of all communities, cultural backgrounds and candidates with disabilities. They will offer an interview to anyone who identifies as lower or working-class, a person of colour or from the global majority, transgender, non-binary or genderqueer, D/deaf, visually impaired, disabled or neurodivergent and meets the criteria listed below for this role.
For further details and how to apply, please see full job pack on their website: https://eden-court.co.uk/vacancies.
For further information, please contact lmcglennon@eden-court.co.uk (Lucy McGlennon) or visit https://eden-court.co.uk/vacancies.
The deadline is Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 12:00.
