Activity Planning Consultant for the Re-Imagining the Harris Project

Tender description

The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library is embarking on the latest stage of its Re-imagining project with a major capital bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund at Round 2, which includes the development of an activity plan for the delivery stage. This is no ordinary activity plan consultant brief. We’re looking for someone inspirational to support, challenge and facilitate our team to create an activity plan that knits together our significant and wide-ranging aims in a coherent and manageable format. We’ve set ourselves some major challenges: • to put communities at the heart of everything we do; • to create the first truly blended museum, art gallery and library; • to become a high-performing single team delivering these services across the building; • to work with partners to establish a focus for civic renewal at the core of Preston’s communities and regeneration. We have big ideas, a lot of thinking and some experimenting under our belt, and a good sense of our target audiences. We now need someone to help us to extract the learning from past projects and to shape a new way of working with our community partners through our current development phase. Our key requirements are: • a skilled facilitator who will draw out and help shape the ideas from our communities and the team, identifying opportunities to connect more deeply with audiences and community partners; • a joined-up thinker who understands the essential interplay between people, collections, creativity, interpretation and spaces in developing activities across the Harris and beyond; • an influencer who will support the team in developing new ways of working to sustain the delivery of the activity plan, including volunteering; • a challenger who will push us to be genuinely innovative in our approach – while maintaining a healthy reality-check; • an evaluator who will help us root our plan in activities that are tested and meet the needs of our community partners. • and an experienced project planner and excellent communicator who can ensure an effective development phase and present our vision in the expected Activity Plan format. This project will be tendered as a fixed price contract of £18,000 If this sounds like your kind of project, please read on. Keywords: activity planning consultant