EMPOWER
Creative Arts Coordinator (Music & Performing Arts) - Maternity Cover
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About EMPOWER
Empower Youth Zones is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton (East Manchester) which opened in 2020, and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, which opened to young people in June 2025.
HideOut and Salford Youth Zone provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to talk to.
Youth Zones are purpose-built spaces fizzing with energy and crammed with incredible facilities. They are staffed by skilled and dedicated Youth Workers who truly believe in young people – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence and ambition to go for it. This is life-changing support that helps tens of thousands of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive.
HideOut and Salford Youth Zone are part of a national and growing network of Onside Youth Zones. There are currently 17 active Onside Youth Zones across the UK with 22 due to be open by 2026.
What is the role?
The Creative Arts Manager - Music & Performing Arts will work alongside our existing team of passionate Coordinators to develop and deliver an exciting 7-day creative offer for our Junior and Senior members. With a 50:50 split between coordination and face to face delivery, you will work in one or more of the 2 areas across the creative offer, which includes Music Room and the Dance Studio.
The successful candidate will be responsible for engaging both our existing and new local partners to offer wide creative offering to our young people. You will have the opportunity to not only shape the creative arts programme for young people but in doing so, allow them to develop existing skills, identify new passions and explore how they can use these skills and passions to shape their future as they become young adults.
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Not only will you design, develop, and deliver creative activities for young people you will also provide direct line management support, coaching, and development for an energetic, enthused and skilled team of sessional youth workers.
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What will I be doing?
- Planning, coordinating and delivering a comprehensive creative arts programme for young people aged 8 to 19 (up to 25 for those with additional needs) which will enable them to build their confidence, social skills and overall wellbeing.
- Leading the creative arts team of sessional workers and volunteers to provide a first-class offer to young people.
- Ensuring that the creative arts programme is high quality, accessible and meets the needs of the young people, including those with additional needs and disabilities and young people who typically don’t engage in creative arts.
- Ensuring that the creative arts programme contributes to the wider youth work agenda, supporting the development of young people.
- Motivating, encouraging and supporting young people to participate fully in creative arts
- Ensuring all creative arts staff and volunteers are equipped with a range of resources and activities to engage, develop and inform young people.
- Identifying during sessions any relevant issues or areas of development for young people and ensure that these are targeted in the creative arts programme delivery.
- Maintaining a comprehensive and detailed up-to-date inventory of all equipment owned and/or used by the creative arts departments
- Ensuring the creative arts delivery of the Youth Zone is safe and complies with EMPOWER Youth Zone policies and procedures.
- Organising special creative arts events, challenges and projects on a regular basis.
- Supporting the Youth Zone promotional plan and work in the community to attract young people
- Managing, inducting, training, supporting and developing a team full and part time creative arts workers and volunteers, working with the Training and Volunteer Managers and Youth Club Coordinators supporting CPD and opportunities for accredited and recorded learning.
- Monitoring, recording and evaluating the creative arts programme and providing reports and information as required in order to ensure a consistently high-quality youth work provision and demonstrate the impact of the Youth Zone.
- Managing and monitoring the budget allocated to the creative arts programme effectively and efficiently.
- To seek to secure external funding to enhance the programme and build new relationships.
- Networking with local appropriate providers and other partner organisations to develop joint working programmes.
- In conjunction with other partners, identifying, supporting and developing talented young people
- The role requires session leading and locking up of the Youth Zone to cover for Senior and Junior Club Leads on project night. This will be scheduled by your Line Manager and you will be assigned another member of staff to assist.
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