Opportunity
Helium Arts, Creative Health Hub Programme 2022.
Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency. Helium Arts is currently recruiting for two key roles within the organisation.
Hospital Programme Coordinator (part-time)
The role of Hospital Programme Coordinator is to support the administration and project management of Helium Arts’ national Creative Health Hub programme, with a focus on hospital Outpatients activities, reporting to the Programme and Operations Manager.
The Hospital Programme Coordinator will be flexible and capable of managing competing priorities within their workload and will have a robust knowledge of children’s participatory and collaborative arts practices. An understanding of arts and health is highly desirable.
This role will provide support in coordinating, liaising, and communicating with the creative team and partners including lead employed artists as well as hospital partners (clinical staff and management) to ensure smooth delivery of the programme on the ground as well as ongoing development. A key focus of the role is to support communication, understanding, and a community of support between healthcare stakeholders and the creative team.
This is a part-time position (two days per week) which can be delivered remotely with in-person monthly meetings in the office in Mullingar or Dublin. Regular travel will be required to Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Castlebar, Kerry, and Dublin hospital sites.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 23 November at 5pm
Please contact Jemma Curran, Administrator, through hr@helium.ie to request the full job description and application process. Please put ‘Hospital Programme Coordinator’ in the subject line.
Remote Programme Coordinator (part-time)
The role of Remote Programme Coordinator is to support the administration and project management of Helium Arts’ national Remote Children’s Creative Health Programme, reporting to the Programme and Operations Manager.
The successful candidate will be flexible and capable of managing competing priorities within their workload and will have a robust knowledge of children’s participatory and collaborative arts practices in an online and remote working context. An understanding of arts and health is highly desirable.
The Remote Programme Coordinator will develop, coordinate, and implement a new national Remote Programme plan in line with Helium Arts new five year strategy (2023-2027), with the first six months of the role focused on recruiting an artist team, induction, training, and development with the public launch of the new programme in mid-2023.
This is a part-time position (three days per week) which can be delivered remotely with occasional in-person meetings in the office in Mullingar or Dublin. Travel to the Mullingar office will be required at least once a quarter for employee away days.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 23 November at 5pm
Please contact Jemma Curran, Administrator, through hr@helium.ie to request the full job description and application process. Please put ‘Remote Programme Coordinator’ in the subject line.
Helium Arts is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourages applications from all sections of the community under all ten grounds as set out in their Equality Commitment Policy.
