Project Manager, Young People & Partnerships

Theatre Royal Plymouth is a registered charity, inspiring a lifetime of creativity for audiences, artists and participants throughout Plymouth and the wider region. As the principal home of performing arts in the Southwest, we engage and inspire many communities, creating memorable experiences for people from all backgrounds. TRP do this by creating and presenting a breadth of shows on a range of scales, with their extensive creative engagement programmes, by embracing the vitality of new talent and supporting emerging and established artists, and by collaborating with a range of partners to provide dynamic cultural leadership for the city of Plymouth.

The Project Manager, Young People and Partnerships role works to create and deliver a programme of high-quality projects for young people and the wider community that foster a lifelong love of theatre and support pathways.

This role will work with the Head of Artistic Planning, Projects in the re-launch of the youth theatre offer at TRP, ensuring that young people's voices contribute to the shape of the programme. This role will then lead the delivery of this work with young people. The role will also have responsibility for developing and supporting projects with some of our key strategic partners including other theatre companies and local and national organisations.

Working with a range of partners, freelancers, and staff from TRP, the Project Manager will manage a number of creative projects in formal and informal settlings, responding to need and opportunities as they arise. The Project Manager will ensure that projects are delivered on time and to budget and that our commitments to funding providers are met.

The Project Manager, Young People and Partnerships will have the option of maintaining their practice in workshops by directly delivering some projects. They will take a lead role in supporting other practitioners with their development training opportunities, mentorship and enabling and supporting reflective practice. The Project Manager will have line management responsibility for practitioners on our payroll. The Project Manager will have the opportunity to attend regular training to keep their practice fresh.

The Project Manager may line manage other support staff such as assistants or apprentices, ensuring that they are supported on their learning journey and are able to provide excellent administrative and practical support to the department, as required.

The Project Manager role is responsible for ensuring compliance with all company policies, particularly Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk.

An Enhanced DBS check is essential for this post.

The Role:

• Maintain and embed inclusive practice, championing accessibility throughout the young people's programme.
• To lead on the operational management of a number of projects including creating partnership agreements, resource management including space and staffing, ensuring the safety of participants including checking consent forms are collected etc.
• To lead on the Practitioner Training Scheme in close collaboration with the Head of Artistic Planning, Projects, Associate Directors and other Project Managers ensuring that participants receive a high-quality experience.
• To provide effective and proactive line management for staff, as required.
• Maintain and develop artistic and facilitation practice through active delivery of workshops and performance opportunities and attending regular training and professional development opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in all departments, as appropriate, across the organisation to ensure timely delivery of quality outcomes to projects and activity.
• Help to ensure that the Children, Young People and Families and Community work is firmly embedded within Theatre Royal Plymouth and is communicated effectively across the Theatre and externally through collaboration with the Media and Communications and Marketing departments, and through partnership and advocacy work.
• Develop a strong partnership approach working with theatre companies, education institutions, charities and other stakeholders, through creating a shared understanding of the aims of projects and maintaining good communication.
• Develop compelling and high-quality engagement programmes around our in house producing in collaboration with colleagues
• Undertake and support the evaluation of projects you work on.
• Identify and support opportunities for the participants you work with to develop skills and support pathways
• Work with the Head of Artistic Planning, Projects to manage all relevant budgets ensuring work is completed within agreed spending parameters.
• Work with the Head of Artistic Planning, Projects to ensure all funding reports are completed and requirements are met
• Maintain up to date knowledge of the sector, the city, local and national government policy ensuring all projects are timely and relevant

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Substantial experience of developing and delivering youth theatre offers.
• Experience of successfully managing freelance staff and knowledge of how to effectively support and nurture artists working professionally in the field of arts and education.
• Demonstrable experience of working effectively with young people, and building relationships with teachers, and Head Teachers in schools.
• Experience of facilitating theatre workshops/projects desirable but not essential.
• Experience in using digital technology and social media as part of a broad communications strategy.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills with a proven track record of delivering projects on budget and within deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A thorough knowledge of the requirements for working with young people in a theatre setting.
• A good working knowledge of school culture and the education system.
• Some awareness of relevant educational research and evaluation models.
• Self-motivated and the ability to work in a self-directed way with the highest attention to detail and commitment to delivering quality outcomes.
• Willingness to work flexibly.

The Person

Our Values are at the heart of everything we say and do, and our people demonstrate these values in every aspect of their work. To be successful in this role, you should be able to demonstrate skills, experience and behaviour in line with these values.

Quality -

Taking pride in achieving excellence. We take responsibility for and pride in what we do, recognising each other's good work. We set consistently high expectations and ensure that everyone has the skills to achieve excellence.

Collaboration -

Valuing each other in the way we work, communicate and spend time together: We communicate regularly with each other, listening and understanding people's needs. We value and respect the relationships we have with colleagues and partners, and we celebrate shared successes.

Creativity -

Being imaginative in everything we do: We use our knowledge, experience and judgement to explore doing things differently. We aim to empower everyone in the organisation to adopt a flexible, open-minded and imaginative approach.

Diversity -

Embracing the diversity among our people and community: We embrace and value difference and individuality treating everyone as equally important. Together we are stronger and more effective.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion at TRP with a workforce, participants and audiences that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

The collective power of each team member's life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent creates the very best environment for us to achieve our ambitions and lead the sector.

In recruiting for our team, we recognise the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.