We are looking for a freelance Course Tutor to design and deliver a 10-week Step Up Leading Workshops course supporting artists to develop the skills necessary to lead their own workshops.
Outside In provides a platform for artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance, or isolation.
It is an important and rare example of an organisation with national reach championing the work of artists excluded from the art world. It was formed in 2006 at Pallant House Gallery and won the Charity Award for Arts and Heritage in 2013 and the Queens Award for Voluntary Services in 2022. Outside In became an independent charity in 2017 and gained National Portfolio Organisation status with the Arts Council England in 2018.
Outside In provides a digital platform for its artists to show their work and three programmes of activity: artist development, exhibitions, and training. These activities, supported by fundraising and communications, all aim to create a fairer art world by supporting artists, creating opportunities, and influencing organisations.
The charity has developed its regional presence and now has hubs in the South of England, the Midlands and the North West with plans to develop a hub in the South West.
Step Up: Leading Workshops
Step Up is Outside In’s professional training programme, providing new skills for artists facing barriers to the art world. The programme is a key part of the charity’s work, focusing on supporting participants to gain new skills and increase opportunities for artists to take up employed, self-employed and voluntary positions in the arts. Outside In currently runs four courses: Leading Workshops, Talking About Art, Exploring Collections and Curating Exhibitions.
Leading Workshops provides a structured programme of sessions that give participants the skills and experience to deliver a creative workshop. Sessions cover all aspects of leading a workshop, from how to set up a room to what legislation you need to be aware of. The course includes a mixture of theory and practical activities and the course tutor will be at every session, providing advice and guidance throughout the course.
North West Hub for Artist Development
Outside In have been working in partnership with The Whitworth and Venture Arts to provide support and opportunities for artists in the North West who encounter barriers to participation in the arts world. The hub is able to support visual artists to professionally photograph work, create an online gallery, develop a portfolio, exhibit, find artist residencies, apply for funding and much more. The North West Hub has also hosted a Step Up Exploring Collections course at The Whitworth Art Gallery, in which participants were able to dive in and explore the incredible Musgrave Kinley Collection, and develop the skills needed to research and develop projects from an archive.
Outcomes have included 10 North West artist residencies, which culminated the exhibition, ‘This Way, That Way’ in Next Door Gallery, produced by Outside In, Venture Arts and The Whitworth.
Find out more about the North West hub.
The role of the course tutor
As we expand our work in the North West, Outside In is aiming to reach more artists and give them the skills to pursue a career in the arts. We are looking to recruit a Freelance Course Tutor to work with ten artists to explore all aspects of planning and delivering a workshop, gaining skills in everything from approaching a venue to preparing a budget, to setting up a room.
The Course Tutor will design, develop and deliver the course sessions, give help and support to participants during sessions and provide advice and guidance during the course. It is expected that the course will take place in Autumn 2023.
The Role includes:
- Delivering a Leading Workshops course in the North West, covering topics such as health and safety, how to plan a workshop, being inclusive, how to demonstrate, and how to capture feedback. Each course is approximately one day per week for ten weeks.
- Taking part in training delivered by Outside In staff and freelance consultants
- Working closely with partner organisations to develop and deliver the courses
- Keeping a record of tasks and assignments completed by participants
- Encouraging participants to develop a final workshop that demonstrates the skills they have learned
- Attending project update meetings as required
- Supporting the evaluation of Step Up
This is a freelance role, and Outside In will require successful applicants to be registered as self-employed. The courses are developed in collaboration with our partner organisations, and dates can be agreed when courses are confirmed. Successful applicants will need to be prepared to travel in the North West including Liverpool and Manchester to deliver the courses.
Person specification
- Experience of designing and delivering training courses for a group of participants
- Experience of working with people with diverse support and access needs
- Experience of working in the arts and heritage sectors, collaborating or partnering with galleries, museums or archives
- Experience of designing and delivering workshops that are exciting and accessible to all
- Experience of tailoring your delivery to participants from diverse backgrounds with wide ranging access and support needs
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills – both written and in person
Fees and development opportunities
The total fee for designing and delivering the course is: £3,000
This is broken down into:
- 10 days course delivery at £250 per day
- 1 day interviewing potential participants at £250 per day
- 1 day planning and preparation before the course at £250 per day
Outside In will also cover reasonable travel costs to and from the course venue.
As a Freelance Course Tutor with Outside In, we offer the opportunity for you to participate in quarterly Reflective Practice sessions with other Outside In Freelance staff. The sessions are delivered by Flourishing Lives, and are an opportunity to reflectively explore your practice as a facilitator with others working in a similar way. For more information on the sessions, please click here.
Beyond the Leading Workshops course, there may be other opportunities to deliver Step Up courses in the North West throughout the years.
This is a freelance role, and Outside In will require the successful applicants to be registered as self-employed and to be responsible for their own Tax and National Insurance contributions.
Diversity statement
We are particularly keen to increase the recruitment of tutors and artists of colour, where tutors and artists identify as ethnically diverse, from different diasporas and diverse cultures and heritages and those who have experienced discrimination and/or have lived experience of inequality due to their race or where race intersects with gender, class and/ or disability.
To apply
To apply for this role, please fill in the accompanying application form and return to Charlotte Graham-Spouge, Training Programme Manager (Maternity Cover) via email: charlotte.graham-spouge@outsidein.org.uk. If you require an alternative method of application, please contact Charlotte by email or by calling 07947690439.
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The deadline for applications is:
9am, Monday 14 August 2023
Interviews will take place online via Zoom most likely week beginning 29 August 2023.
For more information on Outside In’s Step Up programme, please visit: outsidein.org.uk/Training
