Job Vacancy - Learning Organiser (Highlands & Islands)
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Part time 3 days per week (21 hours)
Two-year fixed term contract from April 2025 - March 2027
Full time salary for the role £33,000 pa / Pro rata £19,800 (35/21 hours per week)
Based in the Highlands & Islands
Place of work - primarily working remotely from home, with some travel required
Scottish Artists Union, the trade union for visual and applied artists and makers in Scotland, is recruiting a Learning Organiser based in the Highlands & Islands. The post involves organising and developing workshops, training courses and events for members working in this geographic area as part of the union’s Scotland-wide Learning Programme. The programme will continue to be delivered using a blended model of both online and in person learning sessions.
The SAU Learning Programme creates opportunities for artists to undertake training to improve their sector skills, address the barriers to freelance work and to ensure equality of participation for artists as workers across the sector. All of our bespoke workshops and courses are free to members and are created in direct response to their needs; delivering specialist events on a variety of topics across Scotland and across disciplines. The union considers work-based learning as a crucial and critical intervention into the structure of freelance work; acknowledging its material conditions in order to organise around the workplace the issues that artists face.
The Learning Organiser role is to develop, attend and host/oversee courses and workshops, represent the union at various events, facilitate members’ meetings and groups, meet members, drive recruitment, and to steer the union’s organising agenda in the H&I area.
The Learning Organiser provides a public face and advocates for the union, making it better able to maintain professional constructive relationships, as well as recruit and retain members.
You will work from home with periodical traveling across the region, in line with the needs of organising and attending Learning programme events. This post will include out-of-hours and periodic weekend working.
SAU offers a range of benefits including flexible working options, support for learning and professional development, a generous leave allowance of 5.6 weeks + 10 days public Holidays (Pro rata), a 3% contribution pension scheme and a generous budget for travel expenses and subsistence when working away from home.