Are you looking for a new challenge?

Are you a team player wanting to make a difference?

We are looking for a Project Manager/ Researcher to work on our innovative arts and health programme, Storyful. 

Storyful is an innovative two year programme of storytelling, mindfulness and creative exercises, designed with primary schools to encourage wellbeing and build resilience in children. Storyful will support PSHE and encourage the development of resilience, a growth mindset and good mental health. As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim explains in his seminal work “The Uses of Enchantment”, stories can help listeners to find the courage to face challenges in daily life. Meanwhile, mindfulness teaches you to recognise thoughts and worries and to learn to react differently. 

Storyful is a two year intervention that will begin in schools in February 2024 following a planning phase from September 2023. 

The project combines the expertise of teachers, storytellers, artists, mindfulness experts and children, who together co-create, test and refine a programme of work that draws on the power of stories and the proven efficacy of mindfulness. 

The result of this process is a 6 week learning programme that is designed to be delivered in classrooms for Years 5 &  6 children. Participation in the Storyful programme will improve children’s well-being and create better conditions for learning. The programme will be tested in a range of schools and modified before we roll out the programme more widely. The programme will be run in 8-12 schools. 

You will 

• Have a degree in Psychology or other related field
• Have Project Management experience
• Be a team player but able to use your own initiative
• Have excellent interpersonal skills
• Be able to problem solve and have an eye for detail. 

You will need to be able to easily commute to Settle and surrounding areas and be able to drive and have access to a car.

Terms and conditions

Salary: £25,000 pro rata 

Fixed term contract to August 2025.

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (0.6) Probation period: 2 months

Notice period: 1 month during probation; 2 months thereafter

Pension: NEST workplace pension (at 5% combined employer and employee i.e. statutory minimum).

Holidays 25 days + Bank Holidays (pro rata equivalent)

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are in the form of a written statement (less than 2 pages) which should

• Outline what attracts you to working with Settle Stories
• Outline how you meet the criteria in the person specification.

In addition, please also attach

• a CV
• the name of two work referees, at least one of which should be someone with whom you have worked in the last year on a salaried or freelance basis.

Applications should be sent to jobs@settlestories.org.uk. Closing date: 5pm on 30th September

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and particularly welcome applicants from people that are currently under-represented in the arts sector.

Find out more about Settle Stories here

Find out more about Yorkshire Festival of Story  here 

Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before any advertised closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.