Audience Development Officer (Gosport Routes)

Audience Development Officer (Gosport Routes)

Job title: Audience Development Officer

Salary: £30,390 - £34,390 per annum (depending on skills, qualification and experience)

Contract type: Fixed term for 3 years

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Community based across Gosport with travel across South East Hampshire

Reporting to: Programme Director (Gosport Routes)

Purpose of the job:

The Audience Development Officer plays a key role in supporting the Programme Director and the wider delivery team. This role provides audience development, marketing, communications and community engagement, support across the project, ensuring information flows efficiently, systems are well managed, communities are welcomes and cultural activities are promoted clearly, inclusively and in an engaging manner.

What is the role?:

The Audience Development Officer will support the Programme Director for Gosport Routes, a three-year Creative People and Places programme, funded by the Arts Council England. This is an exceptional opportunity to help shape a cultural movement that will transform access to arts and creativity for the community of Gosport.

The Audience Development Officer role is a varied, people-focused and community centred role, ensuring that information is shared effectively, marketing campaigns are on track and audiences in the community are aware of the opportunities available through the Gosport Routes programme.

Consortium members include: Motiv8 South ltd, Lighthouse Learning Trust, Community First, Hampshire Cultural Trust. Gosport Borough Council and Incredible Edible Gosport.

What we are looking for:

• Passion for supporting and empowering young people, community engagement and/or cultural development
• Creativity and solution focused thinking
• Respectful, honesty and integrity
• Ability to be adaptive, approachable and flexible
• High commitment to continuous professional practice and to continually look for ways to improve
• Be able to learn from experiences
• Be able to work collaboratively
• Be able to build positive relationships

Motiv8 is committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate for the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).