Impact Arts was established in 1994 and is now a leading arts and regeneration company, working with people of all ages across Glasgow, Scotland and the UK.
Writer in Residence£18k per annum, salaried or freelance, 12-month fixed term contract, based Glasgow. 2/3 days working on project, 2/3 days working on own practice (5 days), will have access to studio space.
Impact Arts delivers a range of arts based programmes for young people. Our projects take a creative and enterprising approach to guiding young people into positive engagement and the world of employment. As well as our core programmes we also work closely with organisations to design projects in public art, community consultation, employability and arts activities.
Through our work with young people we identified that many of the young people have literacy difficulties and as a result have poor self esteem and demonstrate little interest in reading – for pleasure or for work/learning purposes.
We are committed to tackling this issue by encouraging young people to actively and creatively engage with the written word and we fully expect this to result in improved literacy skills and confidence in their own ability.
To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit an experienced, professional and talented Writer in Residence to work regularly with our young people in Glasgow within several of our key projects. Experience in facilitating group workshops, including experience of working with vulnerable young people is essential.
For more information contact Barry Crawford, HR Manager on 0141 575 3001.
Closing date for applications is Thursday 18 February 2010. Interviews will take place on Thursday 25 February 2010.
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