TRUSTEE VACANCIES
Are you passionate about the arts, bringing people together,
and ensuring that every young artist in Suffolk gets the chance to shine?
Join us as a Trustee!
We are currently looking for people to join us in the following roles:
Grants Trustee
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Are you organised, with experience of administering application processes?
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Are you a strategic leader who can confidently chair a sub-committee and shape funding policies?
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Do you love connecting with people and uncovering compelling stories about the impact of community funding?
We need you as our Grants Trustee:
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Lead our funding processes: Chair our Grants Sub-Committee, maintain and update our grant-making policy, and ensure our application process runs smoothly, as the primary point of contact for grant applicants and recipients.
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Promote our opportunities: drive the promotion and awareness of SMART's funding opportunities.
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Champion our impact: gather feedback and impact stories from the young people we fund, for use in annual reports and publicity. Maintain our grant data to help us analyse, understand, and publicise the huge difference SMART is making.
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Do you have a background in marketing or communications?
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Are you great at generating social media interest and followers?
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Do you like to think strategically about how we reach our target audience with impactful messaging?
We need your skills as our Social Media & Publicity Trustee:
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Help us run an engaging and inspiring brand.
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Help connect us with new members, potential donors, potential grant applicants, and organisations working in youth arts in Suffolk and beyond
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By doing this you will enable more young people in Suffolk to access arts opportunities and grow a thriving membership of arts alumni from Suffolk.
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Are you deeply connected to Suffolk’s vibrant music and arts scene?
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Do you love bringing people together through community events, festivals, and collaborations?
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Can you help us build meaningful partnerships that enable SMART to raise funds to music accessible to everyone across Suffolk?
We need you as our Community Music and Arts Trustee:
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Help SMART connect with Suffolk’s wider arts networks and local arts communities, including festivals, venues and amateur groups, to identify opportunities for cross-promotion, social media content, and local sponsorship
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Collaborate to cultivate partnerships and events that raise awareness, support and funds.
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Actively promote SMART within your networks to help raise membership, secure funding, and drive awareness of our available grants.
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Are you aged over 16 and a current member of a Suffolk youth arts organisation?
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Are you willing to speak up from the perspective of young people currently experiencing arts opportunities in Suffolk?
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Do you want to gain experience of helping to run an organisation that is making an impact in your community?
We need you as a Youth Trustee:
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Help us raise the profile of SMART with young people in Suffolk, and bring in new members.
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Contribute ideas and bring your perspective to SMART meetings so we can ensure that young people's voices are central to our work.
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Support the other trustees with social media and publicity, and putting on events for members and fundraising.
For more information on each of these roles, please see the role descriptions linked on this page.
We appreciate that you may not have had previous experience with a charity or as a trustee. SMART can support new Trustees with training (from current Trustees, and from external training providers) to help you ensure that you understand and accept the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship.
If you are interested in any of these vacancies (or someone you know is interested) please contact our Co-Chairs, Clare and Becci, for more information: admin@suffolksmart.org
Social Media & Publicity Trustee
Community Music Trustee
Youth Trustee