National Memorial Arboretum
- Job Title: Freelance Artist-Facilitator: Going Places
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Salary: £10k-£15k
(pro-rata) - Hours:
Part time - Artform: Combined arts
- Role: Curation
- Contract: Temporary
- Closing date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025
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Location:
West Midlands
Job Summary
Job Description
A key part of our Going Places programme, the artist-facilitator will work with the National Memorial Arboretum to engage with local young communities over the course of eight months. They will plan and deliver a programme of creative participation, encouraging conversation and exploring participants’ experience of outdoor spaces, the ways in which they are important to them, their experience of the Arboretum, and their thoughts and feelings about protecting our environment for the future.
The artist-facilitator will coordinate the co-creative engagement programme and workshops, which will take place in outdoor spaces and places local to the area, as well as on site at the Arboretum. The resulting artwork will be exhibited at the Arboretum in summer 2026 to provide an opportunity to share the community’s story with visitors, and the engagement programme will continue throughout the exhibition’s period of display.
The sum paid to the artist-facilitator will be £12,000 (40 days at £300 per day, with this fee including personal travel where it is not otherwise provided).
An additional £2500 is available for materials needed to carry out any engagement exercises and to produce the artwork.
Job Requirements
It would be beneficial for the artist-facilitator to have experience working with young people or underrepresented audience groups in the arts, museums and heritage sectors, possessing an understanding of different lived experiences in order to build trust and ensure effective communication and consideration for the participants’ needs.
How to Apply
Please send your proposal using the form provided alongside the brief to [email protected] by 23rd November 2025 at 5pm. Enquiries about the role or project can be sent to Aaron Rossi, Exhibitions and Heritage Manager at [email protected], by 19th November 2025 at 5pm.
Applications in alternative formats (e.g. video/audio recording are welcome). If you choose to submit your application in video/audio format, please limit the length of the recording to 5 minutes.
- Contact name: Aaron Rossi
- Contact email: [email protected]
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