Contract for Professional Artistic Adviser

Please read full brief for details and submission process before applying.

Morecambe Bay Partnership (MBP) wishes to appoint a senior creative professional, or team of professionals, to act as Chair of the Understand Focus Group. The Understand Focus Group will bring together experts and oversee interpretation, creative and artistic works within Morecambe Bay Partnership’s broad programmes of work between 2016 and 2018.

Through this role, the consultant/s will also provide artistic advice and practical support to the Morecambe Bay Partnership team with the scoping, curating, commissioning/programming and delivery of high quality creative works and art and interpretative projects for programmes managed by the Partnership.

The aims of the H2H programme are to deliver training, improve access and present the Bay’s heritage in fresh, new ways. It will bring local people and new audiences together by delivering engaging activities, high quality events and meaningful volunteering opportunities. Its aim is to significantly improve understanding of landscape, natural and cultural heritage and help conserve this heritage for future generations.

In doing so it will bring new visitors, increase pride and raise aspiration among the community. It will achieve a wide range of benefits – for heritage, for the Bay’s communities and for the economy. It will also help to create and reinforce an identity and sense of place for the Bay, supporting Morecambe Bay as a destination.

12. noon 26 Sept 2016: Interested consultants are invited to submit an initial Expressions of Interest
12. noon Monday 3 October 2016: deadline for submission (Late submissions will not be accepted)