ListenUp Schools Liaison
October 2024–May 2025 inclusive
£3,000 plus travel expenses up to £300
Flexible working hours
(apart from event days as noted below), but usually during school hours in term time
This is an exciting opportunity to join the small team at Chiltern Arts — a charity founded in 2017 that brings top-quality music and other performances to venues in Bucks, Herts and Oxon — as the organisation takes the next big step with its brand new outreach initiative, ListenUp & ListenIn: Inspiring a New Generation of Audiences
If this could be a good fit for you, then please contact Naomi Taylor (Creative Director) at naomi.taylor@chilternarts.com and tell her why. Please include information about relevant experience and what you think you could bring to the role and the Chiltern Arts team.
We are seeking a Schools Liaison to manage communications with local Primary Schools through this project, and to liaise with headteachers and music leads to engage them with the opportunities we are offering in the 2024/25 season. If the next phase of this project is successful, there may be scope for further involvement with Chiltern Arts beyond the contracted time period.
Responsibilities
- Working with the Creative Director to identify suitable local schools to approach
- Identifying the appropriate contact at each school and creating a ListenUp Schools Mailing List
- Approaching local schools to engage them with ListenUp projects
- Following up initial approaches with phone calls / in-person visits as needed
- Developing relationships with schools, and maintaining regular contact
- Liaising with schools regarding event attendance and collecting information from schools who will be attending ListenUp events
- Ensuring all ListenUp Schools have access to ListenIn resources
- Assisting with ListenUp events on the day as needed
Person Specification
- Strong written and spoken English skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent Gmail, Google Workspace and Dropbox user
- Independent and confident with remote working
- Able to take the initiative and be self-motivated
- Experience working in or with Primary Schools would be useful but is not essential
Notes
- Ability to travel independently to schools / venues in the Chilterns, particularly the High Wycombe area, is essential
- Event dates tbc but likely to be 20th May, with potential for involvement during the Festival 9th–17thMay and with ListenUp weekend concerts on 26th April and 3rd May
More about ListenUp & ListenIn
In 2024, Chiltern Arts began work on the R&D phase of this ambitious outreach project to engage and inspire a new generation of listeners, and in 2025, our aim is to give at least 1,000 children in Buckinghamshire a live professional concert experience.
ListenUp and ListenIn integrate with our diverse festival programme — featuring some of the UK’s finest established and emerging musicians — and embody the values and beliefs upon which the charity was founded: that providing context for music, and presenting it in a way that assumes no prior knowledge of concert etiquette or the music itself, is the best way today to reach a broad and diverse audience. Join us as we develop this ambitious, exciting project.