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Job Opportunities
The Association for Suffolk Museums is commissioning a consultant to develop and deliver a comprehensive evaluation of a portfolio of cultural health and wellbeing workstreams and on ongoing framework that can be applied in evaluating future projects.
To enable Suffolk’s cultural sector to re-build, in an exemplary COVID safe way, funding has also been allocated towards a portfolio of Cultural and Creative Sector support.
We are now seeking to commission a consultant/s with relevant expertise and skills to produce an innovative evaluation framework that is transferrable in approach and can be used in evaluating future cultural health and wellbeing programmes..
The deliverables of this commission are:
• Creation of an evaluation framework to understand the impact of all relevant workstream elements that can be applied in evaluating future cultural and heritage programmes;
• Implementation and management of data gathering across the workstream elements and with the full range of partners involved;
• Production of a report that collates the findings, provides a comprehensive analysis and summarises the role of culture in tackling behaviour change in health, inequality and supporting economic recovery.
• Mentoring for Officers on the legacy asset tools to help grow understanding of their application and embed use in future programmes;
• Learning sessions to cascade key findings from the evaluation, share insights and highlight impacts drawing on case study content.
The work must be undertaken during January – December 2022. For more information regarding the specific project milestones, please refer to the Evaluation Framework specification. Contact CCFC@suffolk.gov.uk with any clarification questions.
Search for the Stars at the Museum of East Anglian Life
The Museum of East Anglian Life’s Search for the Stars project aims to transfer all of the museum’s 40,000 paper-based object records over to an online collections management system.
Along the way the star searching team have also been identifying ‘star objects’ to be researched for the upcoming travelling exhibition; Fake News in the Age of the Horse.
This mammoth digitisation task is completely volunteer powered and has seen over 200 individuals contribute since it began towards the end of 2017, with many working remotely from all over the world.
If you’d like to join the team to help search for the stars in the museum’s collection please get in touch with Curator Kate Knowlden on kate.knowlden@eastanglianlife.org.uk
Take the Volunteering Challenge with Suffolk Archives
Are you looking to volunteer from the comfort of your own home? Take a look at Suffolk Archives Remote Volunteering and Just a Minute challenges.
From discovering local, or even international, stories in the archive or sharing those stories with local communities, to supporting staff to care for the archive, become part of Suffolk’s story by volunteering with Suffolk Archives.
Volunteers bring the archive to life for researchers and local communities, making more archives accessible and connecting people to the places they live. By volunteering you will develop new skills, make new friends and conserve Suffolk’s history for the next generation.
If you would like to join the remote volunteer team at Suffolk Archives visit the Suffolk Archives website for more information.