Emerging Writers Festival Internship

Emerging Writers’ Festival 2009
Internship: Associate Producers

The Emerging Writers’ Festival is looking for artists and arts management students to undertake Internships and play a vital role in the management and development of the 2009 Festival

These positions are voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.

This Internship is an ideal grounding for developing your career in the sector. Each intern will be exposed to all facets of festival management, including responsibilities covering the administration of the festival, the production of the festival as well as the programming of the festival, and will play a significant role in the success of the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Position description
Working closely with the Festival Director, Admin and Communications Coordinator and Festival producer you will
– Be responsible for the program development, management and realisation of one selected program within the 2009 Festival.
– Assist in the overall development and management of, including assisting of the running of the program, of the 2009 Melbourne town hall program
– Be responsible for one selected business project within the organisational structure
– Assist with the coordination of Festival Artists
– Attend relevant meetings with EWF board, project partners, publicist etc
– Attend weekly staff meetings
– Contribute to the streamlining of EWF processes, and feed these into ongoing documentation;
– Produce a post-event report.

Conditions
– This position is voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
– The successful applicant will negotiate a weekly schedule with the Festival Director, which is expected to be a half-day to a day per week. Work will build for the whole team in the month before the Festival with the successful applicant needing to be very available the ten days of the festival.
– Actual days/hours per week are to be negotiated. Some work outside of these hours might be necessary e.g. to attend meetings.
– The intern reports to the EWF Director, David Ryding.
– The position is located within the Next Wave Offices, Office 4, 5 Blackwood St North Melbourne with some work undertaken offsite as required.
– The EWF WorkCover and public liability insurance covers the intern

Selection Criteria
– A passion for new writing, and for the environments which showcase and accommodate it – this position will work best for people who are keen to learn about literary events management, so let us know why this internship would be a great experience for you right now;
– Superb communications skills, both oral and written;
– The ability to respond to direction, and work both independently and as part of a team;
– Ability to commit to a consistent weekly schedule against other work and study commitments, across the entire six-month period, with peak periods in the month before the Festival – please let us know about all your competing time commitments;
– Familiarity with relevant office software such as MS Office, in a Mac OSX environment;
– Desirable: previous experience working on comparable events;
– An interest in EWF’s mission and target audience development groups.

Application process
After the close of applications on Tuesday, January 27th, shortlisting will quickly take place and we expect applicants to be available for interview on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 3rd.

Applicants should be able to start in mid-February 2008.

For further information please David Ryding via director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au

Applications must include a statement addressing the selection criteria, along with your covering letter, CV and referees’ contact details.
Applications must be received by 5:00pm Tuesday, January 27th.

Please apply by email: director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au using subject line Associate Producers


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David Ryding
Director

Emerging Writers' Festival
Friday 22nd - Sunday 31st May 2009

www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
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