Community Engagement Artist

Role Purpose

The Community Engagement Artist leads outreach and participation activities for Living Legacies, co-creating creative programmes with community members across Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark. They develop and deliver inclusive heritage workshops and events, embedding community voices and creative expression into the project’s exhibitions, interpretation and public programme, including the development of artist-led and co-created outputs.

Working closely with the Project Curator and Project Archivist, the Community Engagement Artist nurtures intergenerational and culturally relevant engagement. They are supported by the Project & Community Programme Administrator in coordinating logistics, documentation and event delivery.

The Community Engagement Artist will also help shape, deliver and work closely with the Community Champions Panel and Co-Creation Youth Panel, ensuring community insight informs all areas of project delivery. This role plays a vital part in activating the archive through creative, inclusive and participatory methods.

Read the full job description, personal specification and about the project in the recruitment pack: here.

Ideal Candidate

This role is suited to an experienced artist who combines creative practice, facilitation and community engagement. You will bring demonstrable experience designing and independently delivering archive- or heritage-based programmes, with the confidence to lead workshops and co-creation activity from planning through to delivery and reflection.

This role supports a complex multi-year heritage project centred on the histories and practices of Black and Global Majority artists. We welcome candidates with lived experience and/or an interest in these areas. You will have experience working with communities, including young people (16–25) and older adults (65+), and a strong commitment to inclusive, anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches to engagement. Experience of outreach work or lived experience with communities in Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark is advantageous.

You will be confident planning and delivering workshops independently, as well as building and sustaining relationships with community partners, schools and local organisations. You will also be able to work collaboratively with artists, curators and archivists to embed community perspectives into exhibitions, interpretation and public programmes.

Strong organisational skills are important, including the ability to manage workshop logistics, support volunteers and oversee aspects of budgeting. An understanding of financial processes within a charity context will be valuable. Experience contributing to evaluation and reflective practice, including gathering participant feedback and adapting approaches in response is also important.

We recognise that community engagement artists bring a broad and valuable mix of skills and experiences. This role is ideal for someone who is reflective, adaptable and committed to socially engaged practice, and who is excited by the opportunity to activate archives through creative engagement.

How to Apply

To apply for the Community Engagement Artist role at iniva, please send the following three documents as attachments in either PDF or Word format to recruitment@iniva.org with ‘Community Engagement Artist’ as the email subject:

• Your CV(no more than 2 pages)
• A Personal Statement(no longer than 2 pages) outlining why you want to work at iniva and how you meet the person specification
• Completed (download)Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

As part of your application, please also provide the names of two referees who can be contacted upon receipt of a conditional job offer.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are unable to sponsor visas.  

DBS and Safeguarding

Enquiries about the role, shortlisting and interviews
Tavian Hunter (Living Legacies: Project Manager): thunter@iniva.org

General enquiries about the application process email: info@iniva.org