Public Art Community Engagement Coordinator

Job Description

The Public Art Community Engagement Coordinator works collaboratively with the public art team, the Public Art and Design Board, and Raleigh Arts Commission to create opportunities to spark engagement around public art projects. The coordinator also plans community events, organizes listening and visioning sessions, facilitates artist workshops and produces community-involved art projects. Working collaboratively with artists, community members, project partners and stakeholders, the coordinator will be responsible for planning and developing engagement strategies that align with best practices for equity, access, and inclusion.

This position is also responsible for gathering, documenting and reporting of input and feedback gathered from community engagement events, surveys, etc. As determined by the public art team, this individual will coordinate the documentation of oral history projects and historic assets gathered during the public art process and work with City staff to ensure it is preserved appropriately and available to the public.

Successful candidates will be enthusiastic about being a collaborative member of a team developing a public art program with a strong community-centered practice. The position requires a focus on project administration, event planning, communications, and community organizing. Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task is essential. Experience working collaboratively with artists, communities, local organizations, individuals, and community stakeholders and the ability to work with a focus on equity, access and inclusion is required. Experience in managing creative projects based in equity, social practice and/or community preferred.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the public art director to advance the overall mission and goals of the public art program and the implementation of innovative practices and research related to social practice arts, creative place-making, and community engagement.
• Work collaboratively with public art staff to develop equitable engagement activities including, but not limited to, virtual and in person community meetings, workshops, community created art projects, and discussions.
• Plan events and coordinate logistics with community stakeholders and artists. This position is responsible for the planning and execution of in-person and virtual community events and activities. This includes planning logistics, creating marketing content, sending out invitations and communications in advance, creating presentations and agendas, acquiring supplies, event set up, technology set up, leading meetings, facilitation, public speaking, and break-down.
• Leverage community partnerships, local media and other unique resources to connect to new audiences.
• Identify and solicit stakeholders and communities who may be potential partners for collaboration and engagement opportunities.
• Create, distribute and track surveys.
• Create and manage publicinput.com project pages, including responding to public comments, and feedback.
• Gather data from in-person and virtual events that will inform public art projects, then convey that data and information to public artists and the public art team.
• Work with Raleigh Arts Communications teams to manage the planning and implementation of community engagement and outreach promotions via online, social media, print, etc.
• Work with Raleigh Arts Communications teams to create postcards, posters, door hangers, and flyers used for information gathering or information distribution.
• Utilize and report on analytics that measure various aspects of the program in order to identify trends and inform strategy. (e.g. event attendance, demographics).
• Work cooperatively with other departments to effectively plan and improve public art project engagement and outreach methods.
• Work with the public art director to assess the success of specific outreach strategies/programs and identify areas for improvement.
• Work with the public art director to hire contractors/artist-organizers to work alongside the project in community engagement events, onsite community artwork events, storytelling events, etc.
• Manage and coordinate accessibility resources as needed for public meetings, including: language interpreters, sign language interpreters, audio descriptions, etc.
• Create presentations, meeting agendas, meeting notes, reports and other documentation.
• Track engagement data and process reports to share with the public art team and other City staff as needed.
• Manage community engagement budgets.

Typical Qualifications

Education and Experience
Master’s degree in community development, social work, cultural heritage management, public history, education, fine arts, arts administration or museum studies.

OR

An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.

Licensing/Certifications
Valid NC Driver’s License or the ability to obtain within 60 days of hire

Additional Information

Knowledge Of:

• Concepts, methods and standards of public art, event planning, and community engagement.
• Principles and practices of program administration and management.
• Best practices, trends and emerging technologies related to public art, community engagement and cultivating and preserving tangible and intangible cultural resources. Principles and methods of qualitative and quantitative research.
• Managing project budgets and timelines.
• Grant writing.
• Applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations.

Abilities:

• Proven track-record of work in community engagement, arts programming, special event planning, and community relationship building.
• Experience working with artists and/or arts organizations and/or entertainment programming.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint in particular).
• Bilingual preferred (Spanish language).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and analytical skills.
• Comfort speaking / presenting to community groups, boards and commissions.
• Prioritize tasks based on project deadlines.
• Exercise discretion and independent judgment.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with strong attention to accuracy and detail.
• Multi-task and think critically.
• Work independently, as well as within a collaborative team, with initiative.
• Engage others and encourages others to share information.
• Willingness to work weekends and evenings, as required.

 Skilled In:

• Project management or program management.
• Planning and managing events.
• Gathering data, analyzing findings and applying logic and reason.
• Researching industry trends, solutions and best practices.
• Compiling and sorting data and articulating issues and recommendations.
• Interpreting, monitoring and reporting financial information and statistics.
• Authoring and preparing original reports, documents and presentations.
• Developing policies and procedures.
• Coordinating deadlines, prioritizing work demands and assigning/monitoring work performed (based on assignment).
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards (based on assignment).
• Providing customer service.
• Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications.
• Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.