The Reader – Creative Coordinator

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Contract: Permanent.
Term: Part-Time.
Salary: £20,000 (pro rata).
Hours per week: 21 hours / 0.6 FTE.
Reporting to: Storybarn Manager.
Location: The Storybarn, Calderstones Park, Liverpool, L18 3JB.

The Reader is a national charity that wants to bring about a Reading Revolution so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which they believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well. By reading with school groups, families, adults, looked-after children, older people in care homes, adults with physical and/or mental health conditions, people coping with or recovering from addiction, and individuals in the criminal justice system, their work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities.

The Storybarn is a creative, interactive environment in which children can feel thoroughly alive and creative in the company of quality literature. With Shared Reading at the heart of all that they do, they believe that books offer children a way to understand the world in which they live and the worlds inside themselves. The Reader exists to provide book routes into this inner space and to develop shared understandings of both it, and the outer world.

The Storybarn Coordinator (Creative and Training) will guide and inspire the Storybarn delivery team, take responsibility for consistent quality of delivery, and ensure excellent customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• The ability to take the lead of a creative team including contributing ideas and practical suggestions for the formalising of new session plans, whether virtual or physical
• An awareness of and active commitment to upholding their safeguarding policies and procedures
• Experience in devising, developing, and scheduling creative content on social media platforms
• The ability to provide engaging and informative contributions to magazine articles that will promote the work of the Storybarn
• Experience in delivering reading, play, and activities to children in a Storybarn or similar environment and able to teach and guide others to deliver to a high standard
• Responsible for setting the standards of a quality story barn delivery by leading a substantial amount of delivery for the team to observe and learn from
• Take a lead role in the performance and development of Storyhunters, including delivering training (content and delivery) and conducting shared reflections in conjunction with the organisation’s Quality team
• Day-to-day coordination of a vibrant team of Storyhunters, including acting as their point of contact; delivering daily briefings, preparing, assigning and communicating a programme of start and end tasks
• To support the ongoing development of the Storybarn Strategy including whole site developments and links with the Mansion House, evaluation, marketing etc.

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

Deadline: 9 am on Wednesday 2 November 2022.

Contact Details: laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk.