Community Arts Project Manager
Fighting Words NI

This is a critical role and key to enabling the Fighting Words NI team to deliver creative education programmes for children and young people across Northern Ireland.

You will lead in the management and delivery of impactful high-quality projects in collaboration with partners and stakeholders.

You will be responsible for ensuring that new programmes drive creativity, incorporate innovation and offer positive impacts amongst young people across Northern Ireland, connecting them with their peers throughout the island of Ireland.

You will be the main contact with responsibility for the management, oversight, coordination and delivery of a large-scale peacebuilding youth consortium project.

For the full job description including essential and desirable criteria, expected responsibilities and a project outline, please visit the application URL.

About the Organisation

At Fighting Words NI, we believe creativity transforms lives. From tomorrow’s playwrights to a child discovering their voice for the first time in the classroom, we support young people in their discovery of the joy and excitement of telling their own stories, with a special focus on voices not normally heard.

Because creative education helps the most disadvantaged students thrive, we work across Northern Ireland to help young people overcome barriers to writing, developing their communication and literacy skills through free creative writing programmes in order to grow in confidence and courage so they can tell their own story both on the page and out in the world.

Each year we work with 3,500 young people aged 6-18 and hundreds of adults. In 2023/24, 44% of our workshops were with schools with 40%+ pupils entitled to Free School Meals.