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Freelance Opportunity: Making Our Mark - Project Lead
Title: Project Lead - Walsall
Contract: Freelance Contract September 2025 – March 2027
Fixed Fee: £18,000 (80 days per year) inc VAT and expenses (pro rata for year April 2025 - March 2026)
Location: Remotely and/or hot desking in Walsall. CBC main office facilities are located at SCVO (Office 1095, UKO, Castlemill, Burnt Tree, Tipton, DY4 7UF)
Key contact: Director of Operations of Development
Hours of work: To be self-managed and logged according to planned delivery needs
Tax and NI: This is a freelance position, and you will be responsible for making your own tax and NI contributions.
ABOUT
About The Project
Making our Mark is about lifting the rich and layered heritage of diverse and underrepresented communities in Walsall through a programme funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, facilitated by CBC and led by local communities. It will be based on our very successful Creative Communities model, providing tailored support for communities to develop their own projects in 3 phases - Explore, Make, Share. The aim is to stimulate the heritage sector and create a pipeline of ideas and projects, developing skills and creating a thriving heritage ecology in the area.
About the Freelance Role
This freelance role will be responsible for the development, management and delivery of Making Our Mark. You will coordinate a programme of work based on the successful existing Creative Communities Model – providing tailored support for local communities to develop their own projects in three phases Explore, Make, Mark. You will also work closely with a ‘Heritage Adviser’ providing bespoke support and ‘Community Champion’ who will act as a link to local communities. The role will sit as part of a small, dynamic, talented and well networked team delivering high impact projects across the Black Country.
FIND OUT MORE and HOW TO APPLY
Please download the full job specification and details of how to apply here as well as the Equal Opportunities Form.
KEY DATES
Closing date for application: 5pm, 13 August 2025
If shortlisted you’ll be notified by: 18 August 2025
Meeting with Creative Black Country: 1 September 2025
PLEASE NOTE: If you require this information in a different format please email info@creativeblackcountry.co.uk with your requirements.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest funder for the UK’s heritage. Using money raised by National Lottery players we support projects that connect people and communities to heritage. Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. From historic buildings, our industrial legacy and the natural environment, to collections, traditions, stories and more. Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on to future generations. We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.
Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage. Making Our Mark is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to support communities based in Walsall to celebrate their rich and diverse heritage.