Project management job in Yorkshire

Subject: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Fay
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 01:09 PM

Hello again,

Here is another PART TIME FREELANCE job at Yorkshire Dales Workshops. The last job I posted here got lots of negative posts, but I know two people applied for it through seeing it here. Please don't be too critical and belittling of the work, people want to do it.

Marketing and Management Co-ordinator

Yorkshire Dales Workshops is looking to appoint a part time marketing and management co-ordinator. This freelance post will be 10 hours per week over 40 weeks. The fee offered is £155 per week plus some travel expenses.

We are looking for someone with a professional background in project management, with knowledge of marketing strategies and an interest and enthusiasm in the folk arts.

The role of the co-ordinator will be:
•To co-ordinate and deliver a marketing strategy for all projects run by the company

•To collect planning documents from project managers and distribute to relevant parties (fundraiser/Directors etc)

•To develop the future programme of events in collaboration with the Fundraising Officer, the Education Officer and company members who wish to realize a project

•To raise the profile of the organisation

•To act as line manager for the Education Officer

•To work on own initiative following priorities set by the Directors

Please send a letter of application, together with a copy of your CV and names and addresses of two relevant referees, to:
Janet Russell, Glusburn Institute, Colne Road, Glusburn BD20 8PJ
These should reach the YDW office by 31st March 2006, interviews early April

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 01:25 PM

Further information about previous openings in this thread.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Fay
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:33 PM

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Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: r.padgett
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:07 PM

This is a worthwhile job and may suit a folkie who works as self employed or who is semi retired and has a goods background in folk/musicianship or similar.

Seems eveyone expects a fortune, but it appears to be regular income!

Ray

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:39 PM

The whole point is that freelancers do several jobs at a time. You have to. The silly comments in the previous thread were from people who have full-time (and evidently well-paid) jobs as employees, but would like (in theory) the luxury, as they see it, of working in "folk music". In practice, they don't have the balls to do it. There's their mortgage, and their pension plan, to think of. So they just complained that it wasn't full-time work.

Actually, £15.50 an hour is a damn good rate.

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: The Badger
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:09 PM

Malcolm - you seem the ideal person - go to it!

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 09:14 PM

No, I'm not qualified for stuff like marketing and management. One of nature's back-room boys, me. I'll put the details on the Yorkshire Folk Arts site, though, and I can think of someone who is qualified for the job; to whom I'll mention it.

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: jonm
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:33 AM

I'd disagree with the £15.50 an hour being "a damn good rate" for project and marketing management, including line management of staff.

I pay £25 minimum for any project staff, usually budget £40, and charge £75 an hour for my services in line management for a project team.

But it's a different field...

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Jeanie
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 04:54 AM

I'd like to endorse what Malcolm said (13th Feb 07.39 PM) about freelance work. There are a lot of us around, working in the arts and education, who thrive on a changing patchwork of jobs, some of which pay better than others and each of which enhances the other, so that we bring more experience to each and every assignment.

It's a totally different way of living from working the company 9 to 5, but I've been doing it for nearly 20 years now and would be loathe to work any other way.

A lot (I would even say most) of the people who do this kind of work also have one of the jobs as part of their freelance "patchwork" which pays better, which means they can then afford to take on another job which pays less but which they have a passion to do. I know a dancer and dance teacher who also does book-keeping, for instance. I do freelance technical translating, which has meant that I have been able to take on drama jobs which have actually paid less by the number of hours expended on them than I would have earned stacking supermarket shelves, but which have been a real joy to me.

When you work and live in this way, the financial benefits are only part of your deliberations in applying for and accepting a particular job. The other, invisible, benefits may be (and I would say *are*) the more important.

-jeanie

Subject: RE: Project management job in Yorkshire
From: Fay
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:00 PM

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