Eleni is looking for three consultants, or one consultancy, to provide the following Transition project support from June 2024 until March 2025:
Freelance Business Planning Consultant: £10,500
Freelance Funding Consultant: £9,000
Freelance Communications Consultant: £3,500
Eleni is a not-for-profit organisation driven by a team of passionate dance and arts professionals. Our unwavering commitment is to provide meaningful dance experiences to communities across North East Wales.
We have successfully secured Transition funding from the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) to work with business planning, funding and communication specialists to help us diversify our working methods to become a more viable and resilient organisation.
Having been a revenue client of ACW for many years, we were informed in the autumn of 2023 that we were unsuccessful with our core funding application and would no longer be a portfolio client from April 1, 2024.
Having reviewed our options, we are now positioned to plan for the future and ensure we can continue enriching people’s lives through dance.
The first step on our transition journey will be to contract specialists in charity business planning, fundraising and communications to help us develop a new way of working without losing sight of our core values:
- re-imagining lives through dance
- enhancing well-being for individuals through creative dance and movement
- nurturing diverse communities, cultures and society through dance
- creating a vibrant dance sector for the future
What are we looking for?
- Freelance Business Planning Consultant
Working alongside the Trustees and Project Coordinator, we are looking for someone to guide us through creating a new business plan so that Eleni can continue to provide dance opportunities for people across North East Wales.
We are looking for someone to work with us:
- To write a new business plan for Eleni by September 2024 that will guide us in becoming a successful and viable company.
- To help us create a sustainable and viable organisation past the end of March 2025.
- To look at the staffing structure of Eleni and ensure it’s fit for purpose.
- To help us nurture relationships with our partners, develop new partnerships, and reconnect with those we’ve lost.
- To deliver a strategy consultation day in July 2024 for all trustees, employees, dance practitioners and key stakeholders.
- Funding Consultant
Working alongside the Trustees and Project Coordinator, we are looking for someone who can guide us through developing a new funding strategy that will, in part, consider creating an offer that generates income so that we can continue to invest in providing opportunities for people across North East Wales.
We are looking for someone to work with us:
- To write a funding strategy.
- To investigate other funding avenues through sponsorship, trusts and foundations, project funding and selling our workshops.
- Apply for funding to trusts and foundations.
- To develop income-generating products such as Dance in the Expressive Arts for Schools, Community Workshops, Health and well-being for the public and private sector, and social prescribing offers. We will also investigate the need for these products, who else is delivering in the area, and who we might be able to work in partnership with.
- To attract local sponsors.
- Communications Consultant
Working alongside the Trustees and Project Coordinator, we seek someone to help us create a communications and marketing plan to inform North East Wales communities of our dance opportunities.
We are looking for someone to work with us:
- To write a communications plan.
- To review the content of our website.
- To utilise all our social media accounts.
- To investigate other marketing opportunities.
Selection Criteria:
Essential
- A track record in successfully developing business plans/ funding strategies/ communication plans for charities and not-for-profit organisations.
- An understanding of how charities work.
- An ability to work as part of a team, show initiative and make decisions when required.
Desirable
- A knowledge of the arts sector.
- Experience working with Welsh charities.
You must have office equipment, a phone, and transport. Occasionally, you will need to travel to North East Wales to meet with Eleni’s trustees and employees.
How to apply:
Please send a cover letter, up to two sides of A4, outlining how you would approach the brief and a CV including relevant experience and examples of successful projects with two references to info@eleni.cymru by midnight on Thursday, May 30th, 2024.
Alternatively, you can send us a video, 3 minutes at maximum, outlining how you would approach the brief, including a clear timeline, examples of relevant experience and successful projects with two references to info@eleni.cymru by midnight on Thursday, May 30th, 2024.
A large print version of the brief is available on request.
We are prepared to consider applications for each strand or the whole package.
We will contact shortlisted applicants to arrange an online interview during the week of 3 June.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about this position, don't hesitate to contact Gwenno Jones, Vice-Chair, at 07739206071.