Application deadline; 19th September 2024 (by 9am)
Key info:
Turf is Croydon’s homegrown art space; a registered charity set up and run by local artists to support creatives and our local community. Find out more about what we do, our team and our space, visit turf-projects.com/about-turf
MOSS (Makers Of Stuff Squad) are Turf’s collective of learning disabled adult artists. MOSS and Turf have been working together since 2014 to create work inspired by their lives in Croydon. Turf facilitates space for MOSS to hold regular workshops for the artists on Friday afternoons where they are supported in their own artistic practices and work on collaborative projects. MOSS also have a studio at Turf, where MOSS artists often work on their individual projects and commissions.
This role is to assist the MOSS Lead and current MOSS Assistant to set up and run the Friday afternoon sessions and to support the MOSS artists in their artistic practices.
Pay & terms:
Contract: Part-time fixed term freelance contract of 12 months. Funding & performance dependent we’d look to extend this role.
Pay: £328 per month.
Hours: 16 hours per month, usually worked on Friday afternoons.
Application Deadline: 9am on Thursday 19th September – we’ll notify applicants for interview on Friday 20th September.
Interviews: Thursday 26th September 2024. Let us know if you’re available when you apply. This could be in person or remote, but we’d encourage in person if possible to be able to see the space!
Interview format: Around 30 mins where we’ll ask you some questions about you and your experience. We’ll send interview questions ahead of time, but no special prep is needed! We’ll give feedback to all interviewees if you’d like it.
Start date: Friday 4th October 2024
Working from: Turf Projects, 46-47 Trinity Court, Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR01UQ
Person spec:
- Personal connections to & active knowledge of Croydon
- An affinity with Turf’s aims and ethos. We strive to be welcoming, kind, accessible and curious, conscious of our duty to the public and those we work with.
- You’ll be kind, empathetic, and a good listener.
- An active knowledge of safeguarding, particularly in the context of working with vulnerable adults.
- Balanced and boundaried; able to navigate difficult situations and topics sensitively and compassionately. You’ll promote artists’ creative autonomy by discerning when to offer support and when to follow their own creative threads.
- You’ll be great at communication and collaborating. You’ll be patient, kind, curious and able to work with individuals and organisations from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience.
- You’ll have an active interest in arts and culture with an awareness of current arts and socio-political discourses (i.e. you like to interrogate things and ask questions!).
- Turf is an artist-led space, so we’d love to hear about your artistic practice if you have one. This is important as we all feed into programming at Turf.
Key responsibilities:
- Working with Daisy Young, MOSS Lead, Uma Carauna-Klasson, MOSS Assistant, and any MOSS Volunteers to set up, run, and pack down workshops on Friday afternoons.
- Supporting MOSS artists to participate in workshops and/or nurturing their individual arts practices.
- Updating and monitoring the MOSS instagram.
- Social media experience, or a willingness to learn, is a plus!
- Reporting safeguarding issues to Rosie Crane Eckmire, CoDirector & Designated Safeguarding Lead.
Essential things to know about working at Turf:
- Turf is a registered charity with a board of trustees who oversee our work. You’d need to align with Turf and the Charity Commission’s policies on finance management, code of conduct, conflict of interest, health and safety, equal opportunities & safeguarding.
- At Turf we;
- Have mutual accountability processes and collaborative decision making on major decisions. We check in with each other weekly and have a board meeting quarterly.
- Are all paid equivalent to the same day rate (£164 per day).
- All share in front of house duties, though we also work in some working from home as possible.
- Share various rota tasks e.g restocking the loo roll!
- As an artist-led space, 10% of our time can be used as ‘Wiggle Time’ – wiggle room to spend on activities which are of benefit to both our practices and Turf. It’s a bit like paid personal development time, but geared towards ensuring our practices are interwoven into Turf.
- Key tools we use are; Google Drive/Sheets, Xero, Asana, Slack – use of these forms the backbone of our accountability processes.
Apply
Please apply by 9am on the 19th September to info@turf-projects.com
We’re very flexible on how you apply, you could either;
- Email us a CV & cover letter.
- Send us a video intro to you and why you’re interested.
- Another format!
We don’t have a format we prefer, and your format won’t impact our consideration of your application, so send whatever you’re comfortable with. However, we’ve found that concise applications which break down the person spec and key deliverables and how you fit them are often the most digestible for us!
Please do let us know;
- When you’d be available for interview on the 26th September (between 10am-5pm)
- Your connections to Croydon.
- Turf is an artist-led space, so we’d love to hear about your artistic practice if you have one.
