Project Manager

About the Opportunity

An Grianán Theatre Recruitment: The Viewing Project Manager

Job Description

Job Role: Reporting to the Director and operating as a part of An Grianán Theatre's management team, this is a Peace Plus funded role that will be responsible for the delivery of The Viewing Project, coordinating the programme of activity and implementing the project across a two year period from autumn 2025 till summer 2027. The range of the role covers project management and planning, community engagement, communications, ongoing monitoring and evaluation, and administration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project management and Planning
  • To manage the implementation plan for the project.
  • To manage the project budget with reference to each of the five strands of activity.
  • To contract key personnel including artists and facilitators for the project.
  • To liaise with stakeholders and ensure stakeholder satisfaction by managing their requirements. Stakeholders include venues, community groups, funders and other project partners.
• Community Engagement
  • Develop relationships with targeted communities across County Donegal.
  • Liaise with community groups and individual participants.
  • Support participant access and attendance to activities.
• Communications
  • To create and prepare a major press launch and closing event for the project.
  • To publicize the Project at all its five program stands.
  • To coordinate the design and delivery of all press, publicity and marketing materials related to the project.
  • To write press releases and create content for social media platforms.
• Monitoring and Evaluation
  • To document the projects activities and prepare the monitoring and evaluation reports required by the funding agency on a quarterly basis.
  • To ensure that the monitoring and evaluation reports are completed by participants at each stage of the project.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the project at each stage of delivery and report back to the funders.

Eligibility

Essential:

• A minimum of 3 years experience of project and event management including budget management, funding and communications and or a minimum of 2 years community development or community engagement work.
• Experience of leading teams.
• Fluency working with analytics and data to assess performance.
• Excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• A full clean driving licence.

Desirable:

• Third-level qualification in a related subject.
• Experience of using website and/or E-communications content management and ticketing software systems.
• Design and video editing skills.
• Experience of theatre producing and working in the arts industry.
• Experience working with European Funding Organisations such as SEUPB / Creative Europe.

Benefits

* An Grianán Theatre is committed to the principle of equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

About Company

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