Lead Writer Role (Children and Young People) - Beyond The Spectrum in Bradford District

Job Summary This role is for a Lead Writer of a workshop group of children and young people and is located in Bradford District. Job Description Lead Writer Role (Children and Young People) - Beyond The Spectrum in Bradford District Writing East Midlands is hiring a Lead Writer for their Beyond The Spectrum Programme lead by and for Autistic writers. To stay true to Beyond The Spectrum's aims - to create an inclusive community for Autistic writers, informed and lead by their own voices…

Job Summary

This role is for a Lead Writer of a workshop group of children and young people and is located in Bradford District.

Job Description

Lead Writer Role (Children and Young People) – Beyond The Spectrum in Bradford District

Writing East Midlands is hiring a Lead Writer for their Beyond The Spectrum Programme lead by and for Autistic writers. To stay true to Beyond The Spectrum’s aims – to create an inclusive community for Autistic writers, informed and lead by their own voices – it is essential that writers who apply for this role are Autistic themselves.

This role is for a Lead Writer of a workshop group of children and young people and is located in Bradford District.

About Beyond The Spectrum

https://beyondthespectrum.uk/ – Beyond The Spectrum invites Autistic and Neurodivergent people to connect with Autistic professional lead writers through a series of creative writing sessions and a love of words.

The project was devised by Writing East Midlands and began in 2020. Participants are of all ages and have evolved into a thriving community that writes together and supports each other.

The project has recently gone national, having expanded outside of the East Midlands.

About the Role

The Lead Writer will devise content and oversee delivery of the workshops, which will be held online, via Zoom. They will have access to resources produced by the project so far, such as workshop plans and prompts.

Fee

£1,200 (12 x Zoom workshops at £100 per session. Sessions last 1 hour and 30 minutes) This fee is inclusive of all preparation work and materials, workshop leadership, follow-up work and evaluation

Key Dates

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 17th February 2025

Interviews will take place on Zoom on 26th, 27th or 28th February 2025

To Apply:

For the full job pack, click here: https://writingeastmidlands.submittable.com/submit/317708/beyond-the-spectrum-bradford-cyp-lead-writer-role-2025

Or apply via this link: https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/BTS-LEAD-CYP-JOB-DESC-BRADFORD-FINAL.docx

Job Responsibilities

• Host an initial taster workshop with a group of Autistic and Neurodivergent children and young people (this could be in person, by arrangement).
• Plan and facilitate 11 x 1 hour Zoom workshops with a group of Autistic and Neurodivergent children and young people.
• Be responsive and sensitive to the group and individual members’ interests and needs, and be open in their approach.
• Be instrumental in collecting evaluative data on the group’s experiences and track their own process through the creative project. The lead writer will support a uniform evaluative framework which they will be able to engage with and shape.
• Work with a shadow writer and project partners to deliver the workshops and collate qualitative and quantitative data as required.
• Collate suitable work from the workshops into an output, celebrating the work created throughout the project by participants. This will be linked to other activities taking place as part of Bradford 2025.