Youth and Community Trainee

To develop understanding and skills in community dance development through supporting Yorkshire Dance’s programmes. Part time role 2.5 days (18.75hrs).

Key responsibilities

• Assist with co-ordination, planning and delivery of all aspects of Yorkshire Dance’s Youth and Community programme, including outreach and development in local communities and the regional youth performance platform FRESH. This will include administrative tasks such as logging and tracking applications using Excel, contact management by using an online database, booking studios and preparing contracts.

• Communicate with families, artists, participants and other key stakeholders. This could be via email, over the phone or in person, taking into account different communication needs such as participants with English as a second language, and adapting language to suit different audiences.

• Assist dance sessions in the community for different local groups including with children, older adults and people with a learning and/or physical disability.

• Coordinate and administer a range of internal and external meetings and networks, including note-taking and writing up minutes.

• Support the marketing team to create content and posts for social media highlighting Youth and Community activity by selecting images, proofing text and developing ideas for content

• Support event programming including the recruitment of and working alongside community co-curation groups

General duties applicable to all Yorkshire Dance contracted staff

The particular duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties of the level of responsibility entailed. All staff are expected to:

• Undertake all activities in compliance with Yorkshire Dance’s policies and procedures with particular reference to equality and health and safety.

• Promote the activities, products and values of Yorkshire Dance.