Job title: Project Placement Community Café Marketing
Salary: £12.69 p/hr
Hours: 222hrs (30 days placement)
Contract: Casual
Location: Leeds Industrial Museum
Leeds Industrial Museum in Armley is excited to join with Leeds Powerhouse West SILC school to open our first social enterprise café. The café will provide work experience for young adults with SEND. We also aim for the café to be a welcoming and inclusive space for customers to enjoy a coffee break.
This project placement will be responsible for working alongside museum and school staff to establish branding, including colour palette, logos and imagery. The post will also be responsible for elements of the marketing strategy for the cafe.
The post holder will use Canva to design and edit marketing material, using creative skills within the parameters of our organisations branding guidance.
Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.
About you
Our Project Placements are a training and development opportunity. We are looking for people who are:
- Starting out in heritage, culture or the arts
- Looking for a change of career and exploring options in the arts and cultural sector
- From a diverse range of backgrounds underrepresented in the arts and cultural sector
What matters most is your passion for the project.
About the role
This is one of three Project Placements at Leeds Museums and Galleries in 2025. The funding for Project Placements comes from Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation funding to give people paid experience of working in a heritage/cultural setting, training and support.
Project Placements are a maximum of 30 days to be completed before the end of March 2026. We are open to it being fewer days to help people access the opportunity. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We are a family friendly organisation and support our employees to work flexibly to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Working days and times are flexible and are agreed between the individual and the supervisor.
What we offer you
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:
- a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
- a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
How to apply
Please complete the online application form.
Read our guidancefor further advice. Please check your information carefully and ensure you complete all sections before submitting your application.
If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Carl Newbould
Call 07891 277 544
Email carl.newbould@leeds.gov.uk
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job purpose
This is a training and development role. The responsibilities of the position will be shared by the person appointed and their supporting supervisor. The individual advert gives details of the main activities you will undertake. Because of the short-term nature of the role, the post holder may not undertake all the elements described below. You will however be assessed on the qualities named in the person specification that form part of this job description.
Project Placements are designed to provide experience of Museum and Galleries and to spend time learning what they can offer in terms of careers. You will work as part of Leeds Museums and Galleries to enhance the visitor experience and increase access to museum collections. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to public engagement through community engagement, learning and exhibition programmes.
- Provide a high standard of customer service by being welcoming and engaging when assisting with community engagement, supporting activities, dealing with public enquiries, collating customer feedback or working with volunteers.
- Work alongside other staff to ensure accessibility and inclusivity within our spaces.
- Contribute to the collections management and maintain attention to detail in documentation, digitisation, and online access, collections handling and packing.
- Exhibitions and displays which may include physical and administrative support for displays and exhibitions, to write exhibition text under guidance from others.
- Research: Under instruction and guidance source and provide interesting and accurate information on collections or individual items.
- Work under the guidance of the placement supervisor.
- Liaise with other staff in a courteous manner.
- Show a commitment to training relating to Health and Safety, safeguarding, information governance and the site.
- Be curious. Be open to new experiences, working creatively and being reflective. Be passionate about the collection, and innovative in its uses with audiences.
- Be eager to develop new skills through participation in programmes, projects, action research and training.
- Deliver accurate and timely time sheets for salary payments.
- The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post.
Qualifications
- Formal qualifications are not essential however good literacy and numeracy skills will be required. (A/I)
Essential requirements Candidates will only be shortlisted if they can demonstrate that they meet all the following essential requirements.
Skills Required
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and partners (Leeds Museums and Galleries /Leeds City Council/ schools/volunteers/public).
- Able to prioritise and organise own work flexibly according to the direction of the supervisor.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Good computer skills. Able to use word processing and email
Essential Behavioural & other Characteristics
- Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council policies and procedures.
- Carry out all duties having regard to an employee’s responsibility under Health, Safety and Wellbeing
- Willingness to actively participate in appraisal, training and development activities to ensure up, to date knowledge and skills.
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity of Leeds City Council.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol, and the role will required to work within these parameters.
