• Creative Facilitator (artist) - freelance 
• Festival programme coordinator (x2) - freelance

1. Creative Facilitator (artist) (freelance) 

A great opportunity for a Creative Facilitator (artist) to co-lead the development and delivery of the Young Producers 2025 programme, alongside the Project Lead. This role will create the project’s final art and science installation, and support the programme activity during the Great Exhibition Road Festival.

The Young Producers programme runs from January to June 2025 and invites a group of 8-12 local young people aged 18-25 to work with researchers from Imperial College London and an artist (the Creative Facilitator) to co-produce an art and science interactive installation that features in the Great Exhibition Road Festival.

This is an ideal role for a facilitator and working artist with experience facilitating co-production projects, working with young people (18-25 years old) from under-represented backgrounds, and creating creative outputs inspired by others.

The role will involve two main strains of work: 

• Development and delivery of the Young Producers co-creation sessions, working collaboratively with the Project Lead: This includes weekly 2h sessions (from January to June 2025), 4 external trips (to exhibitions, galleries or events) and the participation in two main Imperial events (the Imperial Lates event in March and the Great Exhibition Road Festival in June)
• The responsibility of creating the physical final art and science installation for the Great Exhibition Road Festival, based on the concept co-produced in the programme sessions.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be experienced and comfortable planning and facilitating programmes with young people, including co-production. You will be able to work collaboratively with the project lead, ensuring continuous communication. You will be confident exploring complex research topics, and facilitating sessions that allow young people to explore those topics. You will be able to work with a variety of stakeholders, including Imperial researchers, building positive relationships.

You will also be a successful working artist that can create artwork to a high standard that is based in the concept created by young people through the co-production sessions.

Full job brief 
Creative Facilitator (artist) Job Description_2024

Contract Type and employment period 
Freelance, part time contract, 50 days commencing 4 November 2024 to 4 July 2025.

Day rate / total value of contract 
£275 per day  
£13,750.00 total fee

Location 
Mixture of working from home and onsite at Imperial’s South Kensington campus (wednesday sessions are in person in the South Kensington campus). 

Application 
If you are interested in this position, please submit:

• CV
• Covering letter
• At least two examples of your art practice
• Two references

The covering letter should be no longer than 750 words. In your covering letter ensure that you address the ‘Key skills and experience’ section (in the role description), using examples from your experience and career.

Send your application to youngpeople@imperial.ac.uk 

Accessibility
We welcome applications in other formats. If you wish to record audio or film your covering letter, feel free to apply in this way. Audio recordings or films would preferably be no longer than 5 minutes for the covering letter.

Closing Date 
Monday 30 September 2024 by 9am.

Successful applicants will receive a notification no later than Monday 7 October 2024. Informal discussions will take place with successful applicants on Thursday 10 October 2024.

2. Festival programme coordinator x2 (freelance)

A great opportunity for two creative festival curators and producers to help programme a popular science and art festival.

These are ideal roles for those with experience project managing the production of large-scale public events and festivals, as well as working with scientists on creative ways to engage the public with complex topics.

Each of these two roles have a distinct focus:

• One will be looking after the Family Fun Zone, which is the Festival’s dedicated space for family audiences. It includes a amily zone stage, which will feature a two-day line up of family friendly shows and performances.
• The other role will look after 2-3 smaller and more specifically themed Festival zones, each offering a mixture of content that will appeal to adult and family audiences alike.

These roles will centre around taking a range of proposals for creative exhibits, artistic workshops, live experiments, and engaging talks from Imperial College London researchers and festival partners – and turning them into exciting and engaging zones where visitors can have a memorable and unique experience learning about science and exploring their creative side.

Full job brief 
Find the job brief and further detail on how to apply via the Great Exhibition Road Fetival website

Contract Type and employment period 
2x Freelance, part-time contracts. 3 days a week from week commencing 2 December 2024 until 20 June 2025

Day rate / total value of contract 
£235 per day

Location
Mostly working from home with occasional visits to Imperial’s South Kensington campus. Both roles will require you to be onsite for the entirety of the week before and weekend of the Great Exhibition Road Festival (7-8 June 2025)

Application
If you are interested in this position, please submit a CV and covering letter to festival@imperial.ac.uk

Closing Date
Sunday 22 September 2024 at 23:59