Community Engagement Coordinator at The Hunt Museum

24.06.21.
The Hunt Museum, which exhibits one of Ireland’s greatest private collections of Art and Antiquities, has created an exciting new public space for Limerick. Museum in a Garden takes the Hunt Museum outside its walls to create a public urban garden in the heart of Limerick. The concept behind the garden is to break down barriers to culture and art and encourage greater engagement with the community.

Adding the final touches at the opening of the Museum in a Garden, Hunt Museum Limerick were, Abdullah Ashour, Hunt Museum and Eamonn Rooney, Volunteer. Picture Alan Place.

Last year, The Hunt removed the railings around its green space to create the Museum in a Garden. Conceived as an extension to the museum, the garden will feature seven super-sized sculptures replicating artefacts from the museum. First to be installed is Olmec Man, a Mexican artefact that was digitised by TY students and made into a two-metre outdoor replica using 3D printing technologies with help from ESB, Arup, the Limerick School of Art & Design (LSAD) and Monaru.ie. Picture: Alan Place

Community Engagement Coordinator

The Hunt Museum seeks to recruit a Community Engagement Coordinator to deliver diversity of inclusion and accessibility for our visitors. Working with community groups, service providers and corporate stakeholders to deliver a wide-range of creative and sustainable engagement projects that align to the museum’s strategy.  

The candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent stakeholder relationship skills, good project management and a proven ability to secure funding from local authority bodies, central government, and philanthropic resources.  

The Community Engagement Coordinator will be required to engage and develop new and existing communities in a wider context. This may include events, festivals, creative interventions and educational programmes. Collaboration and partnership with external social enterprises and service providers is paramount to the success and growth of the Hunt Museum’s community network, to create a sustainable infrastructure that can deliver valuable and impactful social change. 

This opportunity is also offered as a job share of 20 hours per week, split between Community Engagement Coordination and Community Engagement Coordination RETHINK (See job linked descriptions below)

 

Key projects aligned to this role are: 

  • The Social Intervention Fund. To develop and deliver a storytelling project with the Kings Island Community, the objective is to create pride of place, develop tourism and generate paid employment. 
  • The Rethink Fund. The Hunt Museum is working towards becoming an inclusive museum engaging with a combination of visually impaired and Autistic participants to gain knowledge of their lived experiences. The learnings and methods established through this project will ultimately be disseminated to other cultural institutions as a reference for best practice.

 

Duties Include:  

  • Creative planning and project management 
  • Initiating engagement with  new stakeholders 
  • Maintaining and developing stakeholder relationships 
  • Developing sustained participation in activities, which may include digitization, object research, and basic tour guide training. Enabling participants to build confidence, and enhance communication and presentation skills 
  • Contribute to the design and delivery of learning resources 
  • Managing and working within budgets 
  • Sourcing and applying for new funding streams
  • Capturing and reporting on project deliverables including social impact and areas of continuous improvement. 

 

Salary

Coordinator Scale: €29,000- €34,000 p.a.

The job is 40 hours per week, with some weekend and evening work. 

 

Tenure and Probation

The position is contracted for a fixed term of 1 year with the option to extend 

CANDIDATE INSTRUCTIONS AND APPLICATION PROCESS

Note: The full job description is a guide to broad areas of responsibility and accountability and should not be regarded as a comprehensive listing. The job description may be reviewed in the light of new structures and / or the changing needs of the Hunt Museum.

 

How to apply: Applicants should submit a Curriculum Vitae along with a cover letter by email, outlining how they meet the required criteria to info@huntmuseum.com with Job Ref: Community Engagement Coordinator of the Hunt Museum

 

The Hunt Museum is an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date for applications is 15 March 2024.

 

Job Description: Community Engagement Coordinator
Job Description: Community Engagement Coordinator RETHINK