MAKE @ Story Garden Administrator

The opportunity

This role will provide administrative support for an exciting pilot initiative called MAKE @ Story Garden, which involves the set-up, delivery and programming of a community-centred maker space, located within The Story Garden (a community garden) at the back of the British Library in King’s Cross, London.

The role will provide day-to-day administrative assistance to the project, including:

• Creating and maintaining contact databases and liaising with staff, partners, local business and community organisations, and ad hoc visitors.
• Helping coordinate MAKE @ Story Garden activities and events including workshops, seminars and meetings, including arranging hospitality, diary organisation and room bookings.
• Supporting the MAKE project team by arranging meetings, booking travel (including accommodation and visas) and processing staff expenses and invoices.
• Assisting in the production of marketing materials, such as the production of flyers, web content, social media content and other materials.
• Maintaining MAKE @ Story Garden digital work including backing up digital files/outputs to server. Maintaining files, records and financial accounts and other day-to-day matters of MAKE @ Story Garden administration.

About you

We’re looking for an individual with strong administrative experience and the ability to multi-task across a wide range of areas related to the overall project. In particular, we are looking for someone with relevant experience working in administrative support in a fast-paced environment, preferably within an organisation that interacts directly with the public.

In addition to this, the following attributes are sought for the role:

• Strong local knowledge of the area, communities and organisations around Camden would be an advantage within this role, given its focus on Somers Town and St Pancras.
• Relevant experience of working in an academic environment/ academic administration would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Experience of working with external stakeholders and suppliers would be an advantage.
• Strong experience of using Microsoft Word packages, alongside managing contact databases and mail merge systems.
• Some experience of basic design software (e.g. Adobe InDesign) would be an advantage.

What we offer

We are UAL

Central Saint Martins is a world-leading centre for arts and design education.  Its reputation stems from the creative energy of its staff and students and the stellar achievements of its graduates nationally and internationally.  The nine programmes at CSM explore the boundaries of their discipline.  Students and staff are continually alert to new ideas, and are curious and restless in developing beyond the expected norms of their subject, so emerging work is at the forefront of its area.  CSM sits at the heart of London’s creative scene, and of one of Europe’s most dynamic new culture and innovation quarters at King’s Cross, making the college increasingly important to London’s cultural life, and indicative of our general desire to open up CSM to as broad an audience as possible. 

The project this role relates to is MAKE @ Story Garden. A space for public social innovation centred around a collaborative community working & making space. It aims to use the methods and practices of the art school to create a space in which communities, higher education, the public, third sector and businesses can collaborate to tackle local issues and social challenges. The temporary location within the new community Story Garden behind the British Library provides a strategic and highly visible platform for the work in the heart of King’s Cross.

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