VACANCY: MOSS Assistant
Application deadline: 9am 23rd July 2025
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 by visiting turf-projects.com/about-turf
MOSS (Makers Of Stuff Squad) is 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. Experience of working with learning disabled adults is essential.
About Turf
Turf Projects was founded by a group of creatives with personal connections to the borough of Croydon, and many of its board members share this collective interest and background.
From our space in Croydon’s Whitgift Shopping Centre, we put on exhibitions & workshops showcasing both local & national artists, provide artists with opportunities, space & resources & host collectives. Our programme has a focus on themes of space & place.
A registered charity, we aim to provide opportunities for creatives who may otherwise be under-supported and for the public to be able to access & get involved in art at any stage of life. Turf aims to show that arts organisations can be locally led and focused whilst still being nationally relevant.
Person specification:
- 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.
- Personal connections to & active knowledge of Croydon.
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.
- Contract: Part-time fixed term freelance contract of 4 months, with potential to extend subject to funding and performance.
- Pay: £328 per month, delivered over 4 half days per month.
- Hours: 16 hours per month, usually worked on Friday afternoons.
- Location of work: At Turf Projects in Croydon.
- Application Deadline: 9am 23rd July 2025. We’ll contact applicants on the 25th July.
- Interviews: 1st August 2025. Please let us know your availability for interviews in your application.
- Start date: September 2025
Interview format:
- Interviews will be with our CoDirector (Programme & People), MOSS Lead, and MOSS Assistant.
- 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.
How to apply
Please apply by email 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 1st August.
We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities of race, gender and disability status.
