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Job profile The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included. Job details Job details Job reference 000011238 Date posted 01/07/2025 Application closing date 17/07/2025 Working Pattern Blank Salary Grade: F £29,093 - £31,586 a year pro-rata (Actual Starting Salary £14,547 a year) Contractual hours 18.5 Basis Part time Job category/type Arts / Events / Tourism Attachments Blank Culture Derby Coordinator Job description Directorate: Place Hours: 18.5 hour a week Contract Type: Fixed-Term up to 31 March 2027 Location: Council House/Cultural Venues/Working from Home Culture Derby is a new strategic development agency that will provide leadership to drive the growth and impact of the culture and creative sectors in the city, developing their role in social, economic and placemaking outcomes for Derby.    The Culture Derby Coordinator will play a key role in the start-up and development of Culture Derby. Working closely with the Culture Derby Director the role will lead on small project activity and provide coordination for meetings and events involving a range of partners and stakeholders. The Culture Derby Coordinator will have responsibility for day-to-day functions of Culture Derby including building effective networks, project monitoring and evaluation, reporting to funders, administrative tasks and supporting communications and marketing.    If you have a passion for the transformational impacts of culture and the experience to drive forward our ambitions, we would love to hear from you.   Who We Are Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.   What We Offer You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:   • Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role) • Hybrid working (depending on your role) • Modern office environment (depending on your job location) • Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations • 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract) • Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract) • Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts • Tusker Car Benefit Scheme • Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training • Employee Assistance Programmes & Support • Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network • Support for colleagues who are carers   The Opportunity In the role of  Culture Derby Coordinator , here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact: Coordination of small arts and cultural projects from planning and development stages, through to delivery and evaluation. Support Derby’s creative communities through developing networks, sharing information and encouraging collaboration  Work with artists and small cultural sector organisations, supporting them to access skills development activity and participate in creative opportunities. Support operations of Culture Derby including, coordination of meetings, producing reports, shaping content for communications channels and providing administrative support.    About You To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...   Experience of working within the culture or creative sectors Experience of project coordination and delivery within culture or creative sectors Confidence in hosting and organising events Experience of producing marketing and communication materials including press release and social media content Experience of monitoring and evaluation of project activity and reporting findings Excellent IT and digital literacy skills with confidence in utilising a range of communication channels Confidence in creative thinking, problem-solving and decision making   Next Steps If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 17 July 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.   Interviews will be held: 23 July 2025 at Chapel Street Arts Centre (formerly Deda), 19 Chapel Street, Derby DE1 3GU . Important Information Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.   All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.   Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.   Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.   Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.   Equality, Diversity & Inclusion We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference.  As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.   We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.   We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.   Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.   If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/ Please see Job Description here   Please see Person Specification here   Job title Culture Derby Coordinator Job reference 000011238 Date posted 01/07/2025 Application closing date 17/07/2025 Working Pattern Blank Salary Grade: F £29,093 - £31,586 a year pro-rata (Actual Starting Salary £14,547 a year) Contractual hours 18.5 Basis Part time Job category/type Arts / Events / Tourism Attachments Blank Job description Directorate: Place Hours: 18.5 hour a week Contract Type: Fixed-Term up to 31 March 2027 Location: Council House/Cultural Venues/Working from Home Culture Derby is a new strategic development agency that will provide leadership to drive the growth and impact of the culture and creative sectors in the city, developing their role in social, economic and placemaking outcomes for Derby.    The Culture Derby Coordinator will play a key role in the start-up and development of Culture Derby. Working closely with the Culture Derby Director the role will lead on small project activity and provide coordination for meetings and events involving a range of partners and stakeholders. The Culture Derby Coordinator will have responsibility for day-to-day functions of Culture Derby including building effective networks, project monitoring and evaluation, reporting to funders, administrative tasks and supporting communications and marketing.    If you have a passion for the transformational impacts of culture and the experience to drive forward our ambitions, we would love to hear from you.   Who We Are Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.   What We Offer You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:   • Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role) • Hybrid working (depending on your role) • Modern office environment (depending on your job location) • Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations • 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract) • Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract) • Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts • Tusker Car Benefit Scheme • Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training • Employee Assistance Programmes & Support • Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network • Support for colleagues who are carers   The Opportunity In the role of  Culture Derby Coordinator , here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact: Coordination of small arts and cultural projects from planning and development stages, through to delivery and evaluation. Support Derby’s creative communities through developing networks, sharing information and encouraging collaboration  Work with artists and small cultural sector organisations, supporting them to access skills development activity and participate in creative opportunities. Support operations of Culture Derby including, coordination of meetings, producing reports, shaping content for communications channels and providing administrative support.    About You To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...   Experience of working within the culture or creative sectors Experience of project coordination and delivery within culture or creative sectors Confidence in hosting and organising events Experience of producing marketing and communication materials including press release and social media content Experience of monitoring and evaluation of project activity and reporting findings Excellent IT and digital literacy skills with confidence in utilising a range of communication channels Confidence in creative thinking, problem-solving and decision making   Next Steps If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 17 July 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.   Interviews will be held: 23 July 2025 at Chapel Street Arts Centre (formerly Deda), 19 Chapel Street, Derby DE1 3GU . Important Information Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.   All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.   Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.   Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.   Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.   Equality, Diversity & Inclusion We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference.  As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.   We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.   We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.   Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.   If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/ Please see Job Description here   Please see Person Specification here

 

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