Author: frontline-admin

As part of our targeted consultancy, Maiya Leeke will be leading a free online dance session for wheelchair users;

• THURSDAY 10^th June (6:30pm-7:30pm) – 14+

To book a place and receive your Zoom link, please email hello@frontlinedance.co.uk

Thanks so much to everyone who has filled out Miaya, Isilda and Katies survey questions. There is still time if you haven’t done so already. We’d really appreciate it if you could find some time to complete;

For our local ethnic diverse community: https://forms.gle/m6s4GYubgsfyYkjD8

For our local wheelchair users: https://forms.office.com/r/L2BvG1EQNT

For those wheelchair users working in dance: https://forms.office.com/r/HNQrmNz1iQ

We really appreciate it – Thank You.

FRONTLINEdance is urgently seeking applications for Voluntary Chair, Directors and members of the Board. Deadline: 30th June 2021. Appointments made on 8th July at our AGM

For FRONTLINEdance and the board to run efficiently and effectively, we require a range of skills from a diverse group of people. This means we are open for you to tell us what you can offers us as a director, a member or chair of the board. All positions our voluntary.

We need a mix of experience and skills, both professional and lived. We are looking for different types of people from different backgrounds, who believe in the work we do and want to help us not only to continue but to move forward. Enthusiasm for the work we do across, our key areas of Performance, Heath and Community, as well as having the time to dedicate to us is important.

So, if you have valuable knowledge and life experience, or other great skills that would provide balance to our board – apply now!

FRONTLINEdance is committed to inclusivity and diversity, and we actively encourage applications from people whose backgrounds are currently underrepresented in our board; specifically, people who identify as (d)Deaf and disabled and / or are ethnically diverse.

You can attend meetings via zoom, so you do not need to be local to FRONTLINEdance.

Download a recruitment pack and an application form.

FRONTLINEdance is relieved, excited, and thankful to be awarded the Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s, Cultural Recovery Fund so that we can continue, develop, and ensure we can execute all of our exciting new plans later in the year. This means we have some new temporary positions both in our Artistic Team and Office Team.

FRONTLINEdance were among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The second round of awards made last week will help organisations such as us look ahead to the spring and summer and plan for reopening and recovery. After months of closures and cancellations to contain the virus and save lives, this funding will be a much-needed helping hand for organisations transitioning back to normal in the months ahead. 
The funding has been awarded by Arts Council England, as well as Historic England and National Lottery Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.

Seeking an experienced freelance person to help us create new partnerships, generate income, and with the overall development of FRONTLINEdance.

This temporary position will start on 27th April and end on 31st June. You will help to ensure FRONTLINEdance is ready and able to return to its regular delivery in July, with new projects and programmes starting in September 2021 and January 2022. During this time you will work closely with the Artistic Director to identify areas of development.

Fee: 20 days @£250 a day on a self-employment agreement / freelance basis.

Within these 20 days we will expect you to:

• write and submit three funding applications for 2 year plus projects/programmes
• Develop the partners and sponsors to help us to deliver them
• Look at how we work internally and suggest ways of improving and moving forward
• Support the Dance Development Role
• Work closely with our Artistic Director
• Help to problem solve Covid-19 related issues
• Put in place a range of non-grant income plans based on our current target
• Provide suggestions to move forward

To fulfil this role in a very short time the successful applicant will need to have:

• experience of working with similar companies
• experience and knowledge of what small not-for-profits need and can achieve
• an understanding of what our work entails
• the ability to move quick with suggestions and ideas
• track record of successful funding applications to a number of sources
• ability to identify risk and offer ways to resolve it
• have excellent time management skills
• be resourceful
• prior knowledge and experience is essential
• be an advocate of dance and disability, dance for health and contemporary dance
• be proactive, friendly and resourceful, with the ability to communicate well with a range of people, both knowledgeable and new to our work.
• motivation and enthusiasm for FRONTLINEdance and what we want to achieve

How To Apply:

Please provide us either in a document, voice recording, or video:

• Name and contact details
• Details of your skills and experience
• Why you want to work with FRONTLINEdance
• Details of relevant qualifications, CPD and informal courses you have attended
• Anything else that you would like to add, including video links

DEADLINE: Friday 16th April 2021

Email this to: rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk

For those applying via video, can you please send via a WeTransfer or something similar please.

What happens next? FRONTLINEdance will invite those shortlisted to an ONLINE interview on TUESDAY 20th APRIL. Successful applicants will be notified on WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL, to start a freelance agreement or a or PAYE contract with us on 27th APRIL.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We actively welcome applications for disabled people and ethnically diverse people.

By using the term ‘disabled person’ we aim to include people who identify as being disabled, D/deaf, neurodiverse/neurodivergent and those experiencing chronic illness, mental health conditions, and more. We understand that different people prefer different terminology. You do not have to prefer the term ‘disabled person’, nor identify as a disabled person or ethnically diverse person to apply.

Temporary Post April- August 2021

Even though initially you may be working remotely and online, you will be required to work in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.

You will need experience in:

• Fundraising
• Project Management / Co-ordination/ Arts Administration
• Delivery of inclusive / integrated dance sessions
• Evaluation
• Participant and Audience Engagement
• Developing Partners
• Working alongside and leading other dance artists

Your role will include:

• Implementation of our new Disabled Children & Young People’s Strategy
• Delivery of workshops / creating work
• Making new projects and programmes happen
• Maintaining and developing existing programmes of work

Your role will include working with our Artistic Director, new partnerships & development post, and our dance artists.

Fee: £28,000 pro-rata for a 20 hour week (flexibility within hours and when they are worked, and evenings and weekend work may be required)

Type: PAYE or Freelance (to be discussed with the successful applicant)

Probationary period of 2 months applies. A further 4 month agreement/contract will be offered once this probationary period is met successfully, with the view of a longer term offer been made in September, funding dependant.

This is a new role to FRONTLINEdance, so the successful applicant will determine what the role may develop into, as well as its future with the FRONTLINEdance Team. We are very excited about this and its potential.

How To Apply:

Please provide us either in a document, voice recording, or video:

• Name and contact details
• Details of your skills and experience
• Why you want to work with FRONTLINEdance
• Details of relevant qualifications, CPD and informal courses you have attended
• Anything else that you would like to add, including video links

DEADLINE: Friday 16th April 2021

Email this to: rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk

For those applying via video, can you please send via a WeTransfer or something similar please.

What happens next? FRONTLINEdance will invite those shortlisted to an ONLINE interview on WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL, and you will be asked to deliver a 20 mins creative task (further details will be sent). Successful applicants will be notified on THURSDAY 22nd APRIL, to start a freelance agreement or a or PAYE contract with us on 28th APRIL.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We actively welcome applications for disabled people and ethnically diverse people.

By using the term ‘disabled dance artists’ we aim to include artists who identify as being disabled, D/deaf, neurodiverse/neurodivergent and those experiencing chronic illness, mental health conditions, and more. We understand that different people prefer different terminology. You do not have to prefer the term ‘disabled person’, nor identify as a disabled person or ethnically diverse person to apply.