CVAN Web Communications Contract

CVAN are looking to appoint a Freelance contractor to deliver the Website Communications for the network. The candidate appointed would need to be familiar with web communications tools and social media and be able to work flexibly to respond to requests for content to be uploaded within 48 hours of receiving information (current CVAN policy).

The current workload for uploading content, producing national newsletters and managing the site is around 16 hours per calendar month. This work can be slotted in around other commitments that applicants may have and can be undertaken at home.

Applicants will have to be available for a 1 hour fortnightly skype meeting with the National CVAN Coordinator who will be managing the candidate appointed and setting workload. Beyond that the candidate is free to work remotely and at their own pace within reason, using their own PC.

The contract will commence asap, no later than August 1st 2016, and run to March 31st 2017 (9 month contract). The contract for 9 months will be a total fee of £2880

This fee will be paid on an monthly basis at £320 per calendar month.(inclusive of all costs incurred based on £20 per hour) 

The contract can be terminated by either party by giving 4 weeks’ notice.

Background information:

www.cvan.org.uk is the national website for the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.

Content provided for the site comes from a number of places:

·         Via the National CVAN Coordinator charged with overseeing the site.

·         Via the regional CVAN Coordinators who request content to be uploaded regarding projects and information on their region on their regional page.

·         Via the submit a story/submit an event page on the website, where people can submit content and request it to be published. This method requires approval from the National Coordinator before publishing.

We have a policy of uploading content within 48 hours for Coordinators. (If information is received on a Friday, content would be uploaded the following Monday). All website content is then promoted on our social media tools.

We publish as soon as possible for content submitted to the submit a story/event section. We hold the right to not publish something that we feel does not fit with the website’s audience or CVAN’s mission, vision and values.

Fortnightly we produce a CVAN National Newsletter, this is curated by the National CVAN Coordinator with the Web Communications Editor and sent out via Mailchimp to our 1600 subscribers. We also produce CVAN Advocacy and Policy Bulletins intermittently as and when we need to communicate important policy issues to our followers.

The current website has50,158 visits per year with 26,378 being unique visitors.

Our twitter account has 3,556 followers, with an annual monthly growth of 110 new followers per month and an annual tweet impression of 114,998

We have 1660 subscribers to our newsletter with an average of 1200 opening it every fortnight.

THE APPLICANT:

The post would suit a digitally savvy flexible individual interested in managing their own workload and who would relish the opportunity to shape content and focus with the National CVAN Coordinator and regional coordinators and who ideally who has an interest in the visual arts sector.

If you think you are that person please send the following to [email protected]:

·         A current CV

·         An introductory letter outlining:

o   Your experience of managing websites and social media content.

o   Your availability for work and how you would manage this contract alongside other commitments

o   Your knowledge of CVAN and your impressions of our Web Communications and social media.

Deadline: Thursday 7th July 2016

Short interviews with shortlisted candidates will take place with the National Coordinator via Skype/Facetime week commencing  Monday 18th July 2016.

ECVAN Summer 2016 Highlights

Mikhail Karikis, Children of Unquiet, 2013-14 (production still), © the artist. Courtesy the artist

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

British Art Show 8
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts
24 June - 4 Sep
For the first time in its history the country’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, British Art Show 8, is coming to East Anglia. Hosted by Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts and the Forum, it will feature over 100 works by 42 established and emerging contemporary artists. Find out more here.

Members' Show 2016
Selected by Lynda Morris & Chris Rawcliffe
Outpost, Norwich
Opening 22 June until 31 July
Join Outpost for the opening night of their annual members' show on 21 June, 6 – 9pm.

Martin Parr
First Site, Colchester
2 July – 2 Oct
Works by the acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr, spanning his forty-year career, from his early Yorkshire-based black and white photographs of rural communities through to his more recent vivid explorations into consumerism, as well as look at his ‘Boring Postcards’ collection.

Wysing Arts Centre Summercamp
2 July – 3 Sept
This summer, Wysing is hosting a series of public events that interrogate specialist research across art and music. The season starts on 2 July with the Wysing Polyphonic music festival, which explores the use of the voice, instruments and objects in an unmediated and acoustic form.
On 16 July Professor Gavin Butt of Goldsmiths, University of London will host a symposium focussing on collective creation across art, music, and theatre, between the heyday of the Polytechnic until today. A second symposium on 6 August is hosted by the artists collective Furtherfield and examines art as a commons in the age of networks and neoliberalism.  Further information on the Summercamp is available here.

Last few weeks to see

The Peculiar People
Focal Point Gallery, Southend
Until 2 July
This exhibition and event series examines and traces a history of radical, ideological and socio-political communal living experiments throughout the 20th Century Essex, extending to the present day and beyond. More information at www.focalpoint.org.uk

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) has rebranded themselves!
BCA have a new name and a new logo. In the spirit of collaboration, which is at the heart of everything they do, they have changed their name to &co. You can find them at andco.org.uk and on twitter @andco_. They are also giving everyone an opportunity to draw their own ampersand to be used on their new logo. To submit one, see their website here.

Artists selected for Syllabus II – an alternative learning programme for artists
Wysing Arts Centre
Wysing is pleased to announce that the artists selected to participate in Syllabus II are Mira Calix, Faye Claridge, Mike Harvey, E. Jackson, Nika Neelova, Tyler Mallison, Tom Smith, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Thomas Whittle and Laura Wilson. Delivered in partnership with Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire, Syllabus II is an alternative peer-led learning programme in its second year that will support ten artists across ten months.  For more information, see the press release here.

Countries of Culture Inquiry by DCMS

CVAN submitted a written submission to Department of Culture, Media and Sport last month to inform their inquiry Countries of Culture which is looking into ways to preserve and promote the UK’s cultural wealth, taking into consideration the investment into London and the regions and proposals for a shift in the balance of investment. Whilst confidential at this stage of the process we can confirm we will share that paper once the findings of the inquiry have been published.