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Project Coordinator

Job Posted: 2 hours ago

Salary: £ 33 - 33 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: SA1 1LG, Swansea, City and County of Swansea

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Swansea’s unique and much-loved children’s literacy project is recruiting!

Job title: Saturday Club. Project Coordinator

Start date: January 2026

Terms: A fixed-term freelance contract comprising 38 days per year, part-time.

Hours: 10am – 1pm. Saturday

Fee: £33 per hour.

Location: Storyopolis is based at Volcano Theatre on Swansea’s High Street.

Outline of the role

Collaborating closely with Project Directors Tim Batcup and Laura Webb, and our Creative Facilitator, your role will be to lead on the administration and coordination of Storyopolis’ broad-ranging programme of literacy-based activities delivered at our Saturday Club. You will have the opportunity to shape the direction of this innovative project so that it continues to benefit Swansea’s most in-need children and young people into the future.

About Storyopolis

Storyopolis is a children’s literacy project with a difference. A vibrant, city centre-based initiative, Storyopolis provides an innovative framework for schools and families from areas of socioeconomic and cultural deprivation to engage with high quality activities that build the confidence, communication skills and creativity of children and young people, empowering them to make their voices heard in the world.

We collaborate with a wide range of artists and organisations, seeing ‘literacy’ as a very broad church. We have worked with Rufus Mufasa, Cynan Jones, Swansea Comic Collective and Helen and Thomas Docherty, amongst others, and previous activities have included book-writing, illustration, performance poetry, scriptwriting, rap, journalism and flash-fiction. We believe that the more ways in which we can approach literacy, the greater the potential for us to meet the diverse needs of the children who take part and to enable them to develop their own unique creative voices.

Originally a cornerstone project of Volcano Theatre and Coastal Housing’s Arts Council of Wales-funded ‘From the Station to the Sea’ programme, Storyopolis has now received funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver our Saturday Club for another 3 years. Starting in January 2026, this phase will consolidate and build on previous years, developing how Storyopolis delivers its remit, expanding its network of collaborators and providing high quality experiences to young people.

Saturday Club takes place every week in term time from 10:30 – 12:30 for young people aged 8-14. Sessions are led by a creative facilitator and there is no need for parents to stay, allowing attendees freedom and independence and affording parents two hours of free childcare. We provide a range of breakfast-style snacks – porridge pots, fresh fruit etc – thereby offering a breakfast-club provision. Each half-term block will feature a session from a guest artist from the local community who will lead creative activity around either a specific skill or a specific culture or cultural event such as Chinese New Year, Eid, Diwali etc, drawing on the skills, experiences and diversity of our local community. The remainder of each half-term will be focussed on the topic/skill shared, alongside less-structured literacy activities, including board games, open access to our on-site library and our extensive arts and creative materials.

“Making a story is powerful.” – Year 4 pupil

“The ideas flowed, and the children were engaged.” – Clare Harvard, Year 4 Teacher

“The event was the best we have ever been involved in” – Pete Taylor, Swansea Comics Collective

About The Role

Storyopolis is headed up by Project Directors Tim Batcup and Laura Webb, supported by the team at Volcano Theatre. The project coordinator will work closely with both to share responsibility for all aspects of the project’s delivery, including:

  * Programme design, management and administration: Devising and scheduling the Saturday Club programme, including but not limited to: one-off workshops, liaising with artists and other partners as necessary; arranging transport reimbursement where needed; acquiring materials; writing risk assessments.

  * Budget management: Monitoring expenditure and reconciling accounts and Liaising with Volcano’s Finance Officer Sarah Dow.

  * Marketing: Working with Volcano Theatre to market the activity as appropriate, including maintaining the project’s profile on social media and its website, managing the email database, and arranging distribution of leaflets and fliers; press relations; print design.

  * Evaluation: Monitoring the activity, collecting and compiling quantitative and qualitative data (including case studies) in line with funders’ requirements; report writing.

  * Volunteers: Managing a small cohort of volunteers to support the delivery of the activity

Person specification

We are looking for an early-to-mid-career producer who’s able to demonstrate experience and skills in the above areas. IT literacy is essential and an understanding and appreciation of the merits of literacy as a positive influence on the lives of young people and an enthusiasm for socially beneficial projects. The right person will need to be able to work equally happily alone and as part of a team, and it’s important to us that you’re articulate, warm, friendly, confident, conscientious and very well organised.

How To Apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining your interest in and suitability for the role.

Deadline for applications is Monday 24 November 2025 5:30pm

If you are shortlisted, interviews will be at Volcano Theatre on the 11th and 4th Dec.

About Volcano Theatre

Volcano Theatre has been creating high-impact performance for over 30 years, as well as initiating and managing projects ranging from temporary building transformations to festivals, residential workshops, exhibitions, publications, and public events. Volcano is an energetic, responsive arts company that moves quickly to make things happen, inspiring others and setting big ideas in motion

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