Post on 27-Sep-2020
APPLICATION PACKBOOKKEEPER
CREATE BELIEVES IN THE POWER OF THE CREATIVE ARTS TO PROMOTE INCLUSION, EMPOWER LIVES AND INCREASE ACCEPTANCE.
Create is the UK’s leading charity empowering lives, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing
through the creative arts. Our focus is on engaging participants in inspiring, sustainable arts
programmes in areas where provision is poor and engagement in the arts is therefore low.
We know that unleashing creativity ignites imaginations, develops confidence and builds
relationships. Like setting off a firework, our professional artists light the touch paper and our
participants discover new found self-belief and a desire to try more, do more and be more.
We design and deliver creative arts workshops to engage people who don’t normally get the
chance to be creative. More than 50 projects each year bring the most vulnerable children or
adults together, tackling isolation and loneliness, building skills and promoting wellbeing. Visual
art workshops enable young people with serious mental illness to express their feelings and
emotions; creative writing projects give homeless adults a voice with which to tell their own
stories; dance workshops provide isolated young carers with the freedom to make new friends;
and music enables vulnerable older people to bond over shared memories.
This is a hugely exciting time to join Create as we aim to double our reach and income over the next five years, and establish a new northern hub in Manchester.
JOIN OUR TEAM
Lord Mayor’s Show 2018
To ensure we reach the most disadvantaged and vulnerable participants in areas of greatest need, we prioritise partner organisations that receive little or no provision from other arts providers. We select these using poverty indices and government statistics on areas of deprivation alongside data including: disability; pupil premium/entitlement to free school meals; and use of English as an additional language.
OUR SEVEN KEY GROUPS• Disabled children and adults
• Young patients
• Young and adult carers
• Vulnerable older people
• Young and adult prisoners
• Schoolchildren in areas of deprivation
• Marginalised children and adults (including homeless adults, LGBTIQ+ young people, refugees)
CREATIVITY:REVEALEDMaking it Matter found that the creative workshops left the participants with
LASTING MEMORIES of their experience.
Participants described REKINDLED
CREATIVITY and INCREASED CONFIDENCE. The final sharing of work allowed family members to witness their loved ones’
efforts and fostered a deeper SENSE OF
72.3% participants who are aged 0-18
14.7% participants who are aged 60+
50.4%participants who are
Black / Asian / ethnically diverse
40.1%participants who are
entitled to free school meals
England average 15.4%
46%participants who are
disabled / have special educational needs
During 2019/20, we worked with
WHO WE WORK WITH
CREATIVITY IS INTEGRAL TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING. IT ENRICHES AND NOURISHES YOUR SOUL.
WE SHOULD ALL HAVE SOME EXPOSURE TO CREATIVE ACTIVITY. SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS LIKE CREATE IN HELPING TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PEOPLE IS A WAY OF DOING THAT.
CREATE GIVES ME A BREAK AND ALLOWS ME TO SEE THE POSITIVES IN MY CARING ROLE AND THE POSITIVES IN LIFE. THE WORKSHOPS GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF HOURS NOT TO HAVE THE STRESS OF CARING AND JUST BE A KID AGAIN.
CREATE IS A SMALL CHARITY WITH A BIG HEART AND FIERCE AMBITION TO SUPPORT, TOUCH AND CHANGE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE THROUGH THE POWER OF THE CREATIVE ARTS. AND IT DOES THIS BRILLIANTLY.
Peter Estlin, 691st Lord Mayor of the City of London
Create Participant
Create Participant
Nicola Brentnall, ex-Director, The Queen’s Trust
CREATE IN NUMBERS
38,869participants have taken part in our projects since 2003
10,138workshops have taken place since 2003
£890,397income for 2019/20
57professional artists worked for Create in 2019/20
DIGITAL SPACEOur fast-growing social media presence includes:
1,019 Instagram followers - and growing
4,237Active twitter followers
HELP US INSPIRE IMAGINATIONS, RELEASE CREATIVITY, PROMOTE INCLUSION AND EMPOWER LIVES
42% Trusts / Foundations
26% Corporates
20% Individuals
9% Events / Community
3% Other
Income in 2019/20£890,397
inspired:arts performance at Sadler’s Wells in 2014 in partnership with Create Patron, Sir Matthew Bourne OBE
THE ROLE
Do you want to be part of a multi award-winning charity at a time of ambitious development and growth? Create is looking for an organised, ambitious and qualified Bookkeeper who has exemplary skills and whose career to date demonstrates proven success.
The Bookkeeper reports to the Director of Finance & Operations. You should have a recognised bookkeeping or accountancy qualification (AAT, IAB or equivalent to Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Bookkeeping and Accounting or similar) and at least five years of general bookkeeping experience.
You will be reliable, creative and an enthusiastic team player.
All Create personnel are required to have a DBS check, which Create will carry out upon appointment.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVESTo undertake the day to day bookkeeping of Create’s finances to ensure they are effectively managed, and that accurate and timely information is available for those who require it. Providing support, advice and financial information to the Director of Finance & Operations (DFO), Chief Executive (CEO) and Treasurer.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS• 14 hours per week (two full days or four half days)
• Salary: £23,000-£25,000 pro rata per annum dependent on experience, + annual 7.5% “loyalty scheme” (terms & conditions apply).
• 28 days holiday pro rata including eight Public Holidays.
• This position is based at Create’s offices in the City of London. The team is currently WFH during COVID-19 lockdown.
• Office hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch.
• Time Off In Lieu may be offered for any weekend work required.
• All staff are required to adhere to Create’s Dress Code. All Create personnel are required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check, which Create will carry out upon appointment.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIESResponsible for all bookkeeping duties using SAGE Line 50 Accounts including:
• Recording all financial transactions.
• Raising sales invoices, maintaining the sales ledger and monitoring debtors.
• Arranging payment of and posting purchase invoices.
• Generating VAT returns (including accurate partial exemption calculations).
• Reconciliation of all bank and control accounts.
• Working with the DFO to monitor cash flow and ensuring sufficient funds for upcoming payments.
• Maintaining the fixed asset registers and posting depreciation journals.
• Assisting the DFO in the preparation of monthly management accounts.
• Generating, processing and sending monthly artists’ self-billing invoices.
• Preparing information required by the DFO for the annual audit.
• Filing all financial paperwork in an efficient and timely manner.
Other
• Providing administrative and clerical support as needed.
• Any other duties as may be reasonably required by the CEO.
REPORTING LINEResponsible to the DFO.
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PERSON SPECIFICATION Essential Qualifications and Experience
• A recognised bookkeeping or accountancy qualification (AAT, IAB or equivalent to Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Bookkeeping and Accounting or similar).
• At least five years of general bookkeeping experience.
• Excellent IT skills with experience of SAGE Line 50 Accounts.
• Ability to work remotely when required.
Desirable Experience
• Experience of working within a charity.
• Experience and/or understanding of VAT partial exemption.
• Experience working with CRM databases, eg, Act!; Salesforce.
Job specific skills and experience
• A team player able to work in a small team and prepared to help in a wide variety of tasks.
• Enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
• Dependable and reliable: able to produce consistently high quality and quantity of work under pressure.
• An ability to work autonomously with good personal organisation and presentation.
• First class numeracy skills.
• Good prioritisation to reach decisions quickly and effectively.
• An excellent eye for detail and meticulous accuracy.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise and work to disparate agendas.
• An understanding of equal opportunities issues and a commitment to diversity.
• Commitment to Create, its activities and mission.
Create is committed to a policy of equal opportunities embracing diversity in all areas of activity and welcomes applications from disabled people and people of all ethnicities.
I HAVE FOUND MY VOICE THROUGH CREATE’S ARTS PROGRAMMES. EVEN WHEN I FEEL A BIT OUT OF MY DEPTH USING NEW TECHNIQUES, I STILL FEEL COMFORTABLE HERE.
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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
Xanthe BurdettCommunications
Assistant
Wendy Dempsey
TBCTrusts &
Foundations Officer
Hannah Conway
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Mike HaydockDirector of
Communications #
Rosie BillingtonEA to the Chief
Executive & Office Manager
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Edmund Jackson
Frankie Coppola
Lydia Beardmore Matt Weir
Hannah Clayden
Kristian Sakulku
Caroline Dawson
Isabelle JonesProjects and
Research Assistant (Intern)
Chairman: Eddie Donaldson
Project Manager Project Manager Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Project Administrator
(Vacant)Development
Assistant
TBC
The deadline for applications is 10am on Monday 5 October 2020.
1st Interviews: Wednesday 7 October (via Zoom)
2nd Interviews: Tuesday 13 October (in the Create office)
To apply, please send a completed application form with a short email providing a telephone number where you can be contacted in confidence.
Download the application form at createarts.org.uk/bookkeeper
Completed application forms can be emailed to recruitment@createarts.org.uk (please type the job title in the subject field).
No agencies / consultancies.
HOW TO APPLY
CREATE’S PROGRAMMES PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN DEVELOPING KEY SKILLS, LIKE CREATIVITY, SO THOSE MOST IN NEED IMPROVE THEIR LIFE CHANCES.
Nicole Lovett , Director, CSR, Deutsche Bank
FURTHER INFORMATION
Rosie Billington Executive Assistant to Chief ExecutiveT: 020 7374 8485E: recruitment@createarts.org.uk
Create 379 Salisbury HouseLondon Wall, LondonEC2M 5QQ
createarts.org.uk@createcharity
Registered charity number 1099733