We Are Hiring: Community and Engagement Producer May/June 2025

Join our team and brilliant local community as our Community and Engagement Producer.

Applications Open: 15 May 2025

Deadline For Applications: 15 June 2025

Candidates notified of shortlisting: 23 June 2025

Interviews: 30 June 2025

We’re looking for a friendly, organised and proactive person to join us at St Anne’s House – a creative community hub in Brislington, Bristol. You’ll support and develop a community-led programme, build relationships with local residents, and be an integral part of St Anne’s House.

Read on for full role description:

About us

Bricks

Bricks is a Bristol based social enterprise and charity that works with local and creative communities to programme collaborative activities and secure the spaces our communities need to thrive in the long term. 

We work to local ambition, love partnerships, and believe that culture and creativity have a strong role to play in shaping civic life. 

We currently deliver on our mission via our flagship projects St Anne’s House, and Bricks Public Art & Creative Infrastructure Agency, with plans to expand this group with new projects, enterprises, and sites. 

We formed in 2019 as a charity, and took on the lease of St Anne’s House in 2021.

St Anne’s House

St Anne’s House (SAH) is a creative community hub grown from the ambitions of the communities of St Anne’s and the creative communities of the West of England. 

At St Anne’s House you will find creative and community projects, rooms to hire, youth projects, community cafe, cooperatively run gym, community sauna, play therapy, social prescribing, artist studios, coworking, artist project space, rehearsal space, wellbeing therapy rooms, ceramic studios, and much much more. 

Some of this is delivered by Bricks, other parts are run by long-term tenants, others by a wide range of people, projects and communities that use our ground floor spaces flexibly. 

Our aim is to build community resilience, foster connections, grow local talent, inspire creativity, and provide a space to test out new ideas.

Now with an extended lease we are in a collaborative partnership to model how St Anne’s House could develop through long term community asset transfer of the building to Bricks, this will unlock the opportunity to run a capital development programme to retrofit the building and secure its future use and viability.

Main purpose of the job:

• Supporting and developing a community-led programme

Working with current groups using the space to ensure they can continue and grow. Working with individuals to feel confident and self-sufficient and to have a say and active role in the programme at SAH. Supporting new ideas to develop and for local people to have the ability to turn ideas into practical activities at SAH.

• Developing community relationships and supporting local people to engage with St Anne’s House

Being present and engaged with local community activities and networks, supporting Brislington’s existing VCSE sector and ideas. Working closely with communities in St Anne’s and enabling them to know what’s happening, input their ideas and get involved with all aspects of programming.

• Developing and nurturing partnership with organisations and artists and supporting the growth of creative programming

Connecting with creative and community partners across the city and the South West and enabling high-quality and inclusive programming to find a home at SAH. Developing funding bids and connecting others to enable activities to happen.

• Volunteer and participant support, recruitment and management

Managing volunteers for regular groups, events and activities, supporting individuals to take part in the programme and develop skills and networks. Developing the volunteer and participation opportunities to make them meaningful for local people.

Responsibilities Community and Engagement

1. Holding and developing community relationships to help ensure SAH Is connecting with a wide range of people across the area. Community groups, VCSE sector, schools and universities
2. Producing a community-led programme at SAH – which responds to local ambition, address local need, support SAH to be relevant and responsive to local communities
3. Developing new projects and programmes with partners and communities and fundraising for them
4. Identifying opportunities for volunteering at SAH, updating volunteers list, working on volunteer strategy and processes for volunteering
5. Manage day to day safeguarding and risk management of community and engagement activities
6. Supporting relevant SAH Hires to engage with communities and community partners.

General Responsibilities 

1. Managing the community and engagement budget
2. Contributing to the development and funding of future artist led programmes. Working with artists to produce projects
3. Lead on engagement focused funding bids and input on major programming funding bids
4. Support with promotion of activity to key local contacts, in local facebook groups, via climate action e-news and via word of mouth/local distribution
5. Evaluation and data gathering for engagement programme
6. Contributing to wider Social Impact that looks at impacts work across the organisation.
7. Collate and submit reports for engagement funding bids – contribute to cross-programme bid reporting

This list of tasks is not exclusive and does not form part of any contract of employment. Duties may be varied from time to time, with the job description being subject to review or periodic amendments.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of community development/running community-led programmes
• Experience of coordinating activities and events in collaboration with others
• Good understanding of inclusion and diversity with the commitment to applying these in practice
• A working knowledge of health and safety, risk assessments and safeguarding as they relate to community activities
• Knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting local communities
• Ability to work collaboratively and respectfully as part of a small team 
• A confident self-starter, able to take the initiative and work on projects independently
• The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people
• Willingness to work flexibly
• Experience in project/programme management
• A passion for the arts

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience in asset based community development
• Experience commissioning freelancers and creatives. 
• Comfortable with Google Workspace suite
• Experience of fundraising, reporting and evaluation for funders
• Experience of writing and managing budgets and project plans
• A local connection to St Anne’s and the surrounding area, or good knowledge of local networks

Bricks strives to promote equality and diversity at all levels of our team. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive in our ways of working, and to being a place where all belong.  

We therefore particularly encourage applications from you if you are from a background that is underrepresented in the sector, for example if you are from a community that experiences racism or you are a disabled person (as defined by the Equalities Act 2010), you did not go to University or had free school meals as a child.

We believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and want to welcome the whole person to work.  Our staff are not appointed to represent specific groups or organisations, but to represent themselves and their own experiences and perspectives.

We welcome feedback on how we can improve our recruitment processes.