Interested in engaging young people to challenge traditional park and recreational space design?

Cam Parish Council is looking for a creative youth consultant to engage with the young people of Cam to gather, design and develop ideas for park improvement at Jubilee Playing Field with a specific focus on young people.

Having invested more than £100,000 in play areas for toddlers and infants, the Parish Council would like to further invest in the young people of Cam.

Cam Parish Council is funding the consultation phase for this project. The aim of the consultation phase is to understand what the young people of Cam would like to see developed at our local park.

Identifying, engaging and working with a diverse section of young people aged 11 – 17 years in the Cam area, local youth organisations, schools and park users, the successful candidate will be able to gather youth inspired design ideas and space requirements to present to the Council to help shape the development of the teen section of the playing field.

A fee of £1,400.00 including VAT and all travel and associated project costs is being offered for the right person. Workshop sessions may take place outside of the normal working week to include evenings and weekends to maximise reach of consultation.

We expect that the successful candidate will creatively engage young people in different settings and times to enable rich feedback to be gathered. You will present your findings to the council, sharing written and visual feedback created during the sessions.

The successful creative youth consultant is expected to deliver the following by the end of February 2024:

  • Leading inclusive and inspiring creative engagement sessions. These sessions will be face to face.
  • Keeping records of data collected including responses to a questionnaire designed by young people. The questionnaire/survey designed by young people should be shared via participating young people as much as possible.
  • Reports and findings to be presented to Council.

How do we envisage the young people’s consultation?

The successful person will:

  • Seek out groups where young people attend.
  • Make contact with park users.
  • Link with schools and the youth centre.
  • Reach out via youth platforms.
  • Set up and deliver face to face sessions in several local venues, encouraging engagement with the design of the park area.
  • Delivery of this community driven design consultation will be carried out in line with the Cam Parish Council Safeguarding Policy, Data Protection Policy and Health & Safety Policy.

Interested?

Please send a CV and statement or recent examples of your work along with a proposal (one side of A4).

Ideas for inclusion in the proposal:

  • What excites you about this project?
  • How will you plan to use 7 days to creatively engage young people?
  • Your experience of working creatively with young people.
  • Confirmation that you: have the right to work in the UK, hold a current Enhanced DBS check, and an understanding of the importance of your role in Safeguarding children and young people, and hold suitable insurance for this project.

Timeline:

Deadline for proposals: Midday Monday 11 December 2023

Interviews will take place on: Tuesday 19 December 2023

Please send your application by email to: projects@camparishcouncil.gov.uk

Questions?

Please contact projects@camparishcouncil.gov.uk

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