Communications & Engagement Officer PT

Hertford, Hertfordshire, UK (On-site)

£29K/yr – £30K/yrEntry Level2+ years expPart time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own community engagement for a new Prehistory project, coordinating inclusive events and workshops, with a strong focus on accessibility, safeguarding, and partnerships with cultural organisations.

  • Community Programme Ownership: Design and deliver accessible activities aligned with the exhibition programme across after school clubs, tours, and youth clubs.
  • Partnerships and Interpretation: Support the Assistant Curator to develop inclusive interpretation and build partnerships with cultural organisations and national initiatives.
  • Impact and Outreach: Collect attendance and feedback data, contribute to evaluations, and promote events through copy and visuals across on and offline channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design, coordinate, and deliver accessible community activities and events such as after school clubs, society tours, U3A talks, Saturday clubs for young people, in accordance with the exhibition programme.
  • Support the Assistant Curator in developing inclusive interpretation for the individual exhibitions and create partnerships with cultural organisations to participate in the community programme.
  • The promotion of community events through copywriting and creation of visuals offline and online via social media
  • Ensure that activities are accessible to diverse audiences and aligned with safeguarding and risk assessment requirements.
  • Support in organising and running community workshops and exhibition events.
  • Recruitment, supervise and support for visitor experience volunteers.
  • Collect, record, and maintain monitoring and evaluation data such as visitor attendance and feedback.
  • Contribute to the exhibition’s evaluations and the final project evaluation and reporting.
  • Maintain materials and equipment for community events and activities.
  • Contribute to the marketing and communications to promote the individual exhibitions and community activities.
  • Work with initiatives such as the National Saturday Club, The Arts Award and Kids in Museums, to ensure quality, engaging provision and accredited activity for children and young people.
  • Assist in researching fundraising initiatives, including a ‘Friends of Celtic Harmony’ membership scheme in year two of the project.

Requirements

  • Experience: volunteer management: 2 years (required)
  • Driving Licence (required)
  • United Kingdom (required)
  • Licence/Certification: Driving Licence (required)
  • Work authorisation: United Kingdom (required)

Benefits

  • Opportunity to further your career in a growing charity
  • Be part of an exciting new project to showcase Prehistory and engage with the community through volunteering opportunities and community engagement.
  • Enable you to ‘make a difference’ and the charity to improve well-being for children, young people and vulnerable adults.
  • In-house and External Training
  • Work as part of a dynamic charity team
  • Free parking
  • On-site parking
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Celtic Harmony

Celtic Harmony is an award winning charity, providing hands-on cultural heritage education of ancient Britain to increase understanding of the natural world and create a more sustainable way of life for future generations.Celtic Harmony provides a program of events and archery courses for schools and the local community, to encourage participation in healthy recreation and a greater understanding of ancient crafts from archery to storytelling. Visitors experience first-hand how the people of the Celtic Iron Age, who lived over 2000 years ago, made food, clothes and shelter from the natural environment, whilst protecting natural habitats by harvesting in the traditional way.

Founded in 1998
12 employees (5 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
25.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
80.6%
Direct
10.1%
Referral
1.7%
Social
5.6%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (33% of company)