Opportunity
Creative Ireland Kerry within Kerry County Council is seeking a project co-ordinator to deliver Weaving Worlds Together, a Shared Island Creative Health and Wellbeing Project. The project is being delivered in collaboration with the Family Resource Centres National Forum, The Healthy Living Centre Alliance in Northern Ireland and HSE South West.
Kerry County Council wish to contract an experienced project co-ordinator to lead this new creative initiative on a 30+ hours per week basis in early 2025. There is a requirement to front load hours to establish the project. The expected contact hours will be reduced to 20+ hours per week for approx. 40 weeks in 2025.
The Project Co-ordinator role will operate as a contract of service between the contractor and Creative Ireland Kerry. Work on this project will require flexibility and travel between County Kerry and Northern Ireland across a number of centres.
Remuneration
The total budget for the contract of services will not exceed €25,000 exclusive of VAT but inclusive of any other expenses incurred in connection with the delivery of services. Submissions are sought for this contract of service with quotes of daily rates and hours provided.
Project Description
The focus of Weaving Worlds Together is the preservation of traditional Irish crafts on the island of Ireland. Key to this project is providing opportunities for members of our communities, North and South, to support their health and wellbeing through opportunities to engage with creativity in their community and through a North/South collaboration. It is targeted at people who are engaging with Social Prescribing Services.
Social Prescribing endeavours to support people with issues such as social isolation, anxiety, loneliness, and inactivity, which negatively affect health and wellbeing. It offers a holistic approach to these issues through empowerment, achieved through engagement in meaningful social activities and community participation. Linking with creativity enables improved health and wellbeing. The clients from each centre will be service users of their social prescribing services. The social prescribing staff will liaise with and support their service users to partake in the programme.
The project will have a focus on traditional Irish craft work including but not limited to: basket weaving/willow weaving, ceramics, textiles, woodworking, knitting/crochet, and crafts from Traveller culture. The pieces created will build up to an exhibition that can tour Kerry and Northern counties.
The project endeavours to build on the culture of traditional Irish crafts and highlight the significant role they played in bringing communities together. The project should reflect that in modern times these crafts can reduce social isolation and boost mental wellbeing while sharing the heritage of Ireland as a whole island in the practice of making together.
How to Apply
Download the project brief which includes role specification and the application process: https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2024/11/Project-Coordinator-RFQ-Creative-Health-and-Wellbeing-Shared-Island-project.pdf
Deadline for applications
Submissions must be emailed to arts@kerrycoco.ie by 5pm on 4 December 2024 with the subject line ‘Project Coordinator – Weaving Worlds Together’.
