Current Vacancies
We thrive on working with a range of different people and ensuring that our projects are fully accessible to all. We love working with new people whether you are a new member joining one of our groups, a volunteer, a freelance artist sharing your skills or a paid role.
Below you will find a details of our current opportunities to work with us. We have a detailed Equal Opportunities Policy and Recruitment Policy.
Project leader -
The Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project
Key details:
Title: Project Leader (Freelance) for the Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project
Venue: Norwich Quaker Meeting House
Start date: 1st June 2026
End date: 30th November 2026
Payment: £175 per day
Working hours: 1 day per week
Responsible to: Project Leader
A brief outline to the project
The Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project is a new project run by our Black Dog Theatre Creation community group and supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of this new community project is to create a new project bringing to life and to honour the true stories of the many nurses and ambulance drivers who served on the frontline during WW1. We will play a particular interest in our research to the local nurses to Norfolk including the inspirational story of Edith Cavell, a local nurse from Norwich on the 110th anniversary of her death. This will be our first project in Norfolk. We have teamed up with the Norwich Museum and Norwich Records Office who will help us to develop our historical enquiry skills, learning how get the most from a museum visit, artefacts left behind and local archives to tell local stories.
Open to approximately 15-20 local participants focusing upon engaging with people with poor confidence and mental health issues. Participants will be invited to attend a weekly workshop where we will develop historical enquiry skills, use archives, artefacts, performance techniques and visits developing an understanding of the stories of those who served as nurses and ambulance drivers. We will create a series of learning materials including a short documentary film on Edith Cavell and a small theatrical performance sharing what we have learnt.
About the Black Dog Theatre Creation:
The Black Dog Theatre Creation is a small community theatre project which was set up ten years ago by the team behind Alfie James Productions which have successfully created six community heritage projects with the HLF. The Black Dog Theatre Creation’s core aim is to use creativity and the artforms to support adults suffering from poor confidence and mental health issues. Over the past ten years, we have developed countless projects, and we currently run regular groups in Colchester (Essex), Camden (London), East-Ham (London) and Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) and regularly work with local support organisations including Rethink, Colchester Community 360, Camden Community Network, West Euston Project and local libraries who all signpost clients to us regularly.
The role of the Project Leader
As our Project Leader, you will plan and lead our workshops held at the Norwich Quaker Meeting Rooms and visits e.g. to the Norfolk Records Office, Norwich (Norfolk) Museum helping to create a safe and friendly environment, supporting our members to access the activities, and giving positive encouragement. You will plan accessible, differentiated activities with clear shared aims and objectives, modelling and encouraging people’s confidence to grow and building knowledge and understanding of research and historical enquiry skills. You will work with Project partners, organising trips and external workshops, training of staff, volunteers and participants. You will oversee the management of the project, ensuring that the timetable and aims and objectives are achieved, working with the Treasurer to oversee the budget and evaluation process. We will be working towards creating a learning resource toolkit including materials, research, short audio and films. You will also direct and produce a short theatrical piece and oversee the creation of both a short film about Edith Cavell and a Remembrance tree display working alongside the Film Artist and Assistant Workshop Facilitator.
Specific duties to the role:
As our Project Leader, you will work in a team with the Trustees and staff, Volunteers and Participants supporting each other with the general running of the project and guiding the team towards its collective vision and shared goals. Duties include (but not limited to):
1.Planning and leading of workshops – running differentiated and accessible activities, helping to demonstrate and model key skills and encouraging participants to develop key historical enquiry, research and performance skills.
2. Ensure that necessary health and safety/risk assessments are carried out and shared.
3. Organise resources including artefacts, sharing archives, topic loans, visits.
4. Support the participants during the workshops – Having lots of positive energy, a ‘get up and go vibe’, encouraging them to take part in activities, supporting them to access the work that we do, giving positive feedback and helping to create a positive safe environment for everyone to thrive.
5. Attend and oversee visits e.g. Norwich Records Office, Norfolk & Norwich Museums to support our learning of historical enquiry skills and research. Thanking guest workshop leaders.
6. Support the project’s public engagement strategy by helping to promote the project on social media.
7.Taking photographs and filming of workshop activities, visits, research activities, rehearsals and performances as part of our evaluation process.
8. Promote and model the projects overall vision and its aims and objectives, serving as a guide for everyone as they journey through the project.
9. Oversee the management of the project, including its timetable, budget, evaluations.
10.Lead staff, offering support, training and advice throughout.
11.Write, Direct, produce the theatre piece, audio and short film(s).
12. Work as a team to create learning resources sharing what we have learnt. This may include helping to create audio’s, learning information sheets, creating props, short films, webpage.
13. Ensure that participants are supported in their learning and that activities are accessible.
14. Ensure that the project is evaluated at regular intervals throughout the project and feeding back to the project partners.
General duties:
15. Everyone should act in a professional manner at all times.
16. Everyone should work as a team, supporting each other where possible
17. Support in the marketing of activities, performances.
18. Support the organisations core aims and ethos.
19. Employees should act in a manner which does not bring disrepute to the organisation, and which abides by our code of conduct particularly considering their role working alongside vulnerable adults.
20. Everyone should respect and act accordingly towards any behaviour and public safety policies of the workshop, visiting and performance venues e.g. Fire and Health and Safety Policy and Procedures, rules regarding smoking at the theatre.
Statutory checks:
Due to the nature of some of our work employees may be asked to undertake a DBS check. All offers of employment whether paid or voluntary will be subject to the outcome of this check. The cost of the DBS check will be covered by the Black Dog Theatre Creation.
Trial period:
The contract is subject to the employee completing a two-week fully paid trial period. This trial period is full both parties to be given the opportunity to make sure that the role is for them. A review meeting will take place at the end of the trial period.
To apply:
Please send us a copy of your CV along with a cover letter or a video/audio recording telling us a little bit about yourself, your experience and what you can bring to the project. (Please note, recordings should be no longer than 5 minutes in length)
Submit to:
blackdogtheatrecreation@gmail.com
Closing date: Monday 18th May 2026 12 noon.
Interviews held on: Thursday 21st May 2026
Assistant Workshop Facilitator
The Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project
Key information:
Title: Assistant Workshop Facilitator Workshop (Freelance) for The Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project
Venue: Norwich Quaker Meeting Rooms
Start date: 1st June 2026
End date: 30th November 2026
Payment: £75 per day
Working hours: 1 day per week
Responsible to: Project Leader
A brief outline to the project
The Women in War Norwich Community Heritage Project is a new project run by our Black Dog Theatre Creation community group and supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of this new community project is to create a new project bringing to life and to honour the true stories of the many nurses and ambulance drivers who served on the frontline during WW1. We will play a particular interest in our research to the local nurses to Norfolk including the inspirational story of Edith Cavell, a local nurse from Norwich on the 110th anniversary of her death. This will be our first project in Norfolk. We have teamed up with the Norwich Museum and Norwich Records Office who will help us to develop our historical enquiry skills, learning how get the most from a museum visit, artefacts left behind and local archives to tell local stories.
Open to approximately 15-20 local participants focusing upon engaging with people with poor confidence and mental health issues. Participants will be invited to attend a weekly workshop where we will develop historical enquiry skills, use archives, artefacts, performance techniques and visits developing an understanding of the stories of those who served as nurses and ambulance drivers. We will create a series of learning materials including a short documentary film on Edith Cavell and a small theatrical performance sharing what we have learnt.
About the Black Dog Theatre Creation:
The Black Dog Theatre Creation is a small community theatre project which was set up ten years ago by the team behind Alfie James Productions which have successfully created six community heritage projects with the HLF. The Black Dog Theatre Creation’s core aim is to use creativity and the artforms to support adults suffering from poor confidence and mental health issues. Over the past ten years, we have developed countless projects, and we currently run regular groups in Colchester (Essex), Camden (London), East-Ham (London) and Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) and regularly work with local support organisations including Rethink, Colchester Community 360, Camden Community Network, West Euston Project and local libraries who all signpost clients to us regularly.
The role of the Assistant Workshop Facilitator
As our Assistant Workshop Facilitator, you will attend our workshops held at the Norwich Quaker Meeting Rooms and visits e.g. to the Norwich Records Office, Norwich/Norfolk Museums helping to create a safe and friendly environment, supporting our members to access the activities, and giving positive encouragement. You will join in with activities to help model and encourage people’s confidence to grow and building knowledge and understanding of research and historical enquiry skills. It would be great if you brought fresh ideas along too and you may like to join in with leading warm-ups, cool-downs and share some of your own performance/heritage skills which you may have learnt. We will be working towards creating a learning resource toolkit including materials, research, short audio and films. You will also help to create a short theatrical piece and the creation of both a short film about Edith Cavell with film artist and Project Leader. You will take the lead in overseeing the creation of a Remembrance tree display for the Norwich library.
Specific duties to the role:
As our Assistant Workshop Facilitator, you will work in a team with the Project Leader supporting each other with the general running of the project. Duties include (but not limited to):
1. Assist the leading of workshops – supporting the Project Leader by joining in with activities, helping to demonstrate and model key skills. When you feel comfortable to do so, you’re welcome to lead individual activities as part of the workshops such as warmups, cool-downs, small activities to develop particular aims.
2. Arrive 30 minutes before the workshop commences to help set up and help pack away at the end of each workshop.
3. Lead the project / workshops in the Project Leaders absence.
4. Support the participants during the workshops – Having lots of positive energy, a ‘get up and go vibe’, encouraging them to take part in activities, supporting them to access the work that we do, giving positive feedback and helping to create a positive safe environment for everyone to thrive.
5. Attend visits e.g. Norwich Records Office and Norwich/Norfolk Museum(s) to support our learning of historical enquiry skills and research.
6. Support the project’s public engagement strategy by helping to promote the project on social media.
7.Taking photographs and filming of workshop activities, visits, research activities, rehearsals and performances.
8.Working with the Project Leader helping to direct, produce performances.
9. Work as a team to create learning resources sharing what we have learnt. This may include helping to create audio’s, learning information sheets, creating props, short films, webpage.
10.Taking on specific key roles with our performance to support the participants showcase their work. This could include performing or assisting the accessibility of participants.
11. Help the Project Leader to ensure that participants are supported in their learning and that activities are accessible.
12. Work with the Project Leader to organise, produce props, costumes and workshop materials and manage these for rehearsals, transporting them.
13. Helping to set up and pack away on the workshops, performances, arriving before the cast to safely set up / pack away.
14. Help to evaluate the project at regular intervals throughout the project.
15. Create a Remembrance tree display in the Norwich Library.
16. Help to create a short film about Edith Cavell with the film artist and Project Leader.
General duties:
15. Everyone should act in a professional manner at all times.
16. Everyone should work as a team, supporting each other where possible
17. Support in the marketing of activities, performances.
18. Support the organisations core aims and ethos.
19. Employees should act in a manner which does not bring disrepute to the organisation, and which abides by our code of conduct particularly considering their role working alongside vulnerable adults.
20. Everyone should respect and act accordingly towards any behaviour and public safety policies of the workshop, visiting and performance venues e.g. Fire and Health and Safety Policy and Procedures, rules regarding smoking at the theatre.
We are looking for someone local to Norwich who is enthusiastic about both heritage and theatre and making the arts and heritage more accessible for others. You will have excellent communication skills and a positive outlook ad a good sense of humour. You will have experience in a similar role and working with vulnerable adults with experience of both heritage and theatre. This role is subject to a DBS check.
Statutory checks:
Due to the nature of some of our work employees may be asked to undertake a DBS check. All offers of employment whether paid or voluntary will be subject to the outcome of this check. The cost of the DBS check will be covered by the Black Dog Theatre Creation.
Trial period:
The contract is subject to the employee completing a two-week fully paid trial period. This trial period is full both parties to be given the opportunity to make sure that the role is for them. A review meeting will take place at the end of the trial period.
To apply:
Please send a copy of your CV along with a cover letter or alternatively either a short audio/film recording outlining why you would like this role and any specific skills you could bring to the project. (Recordings should be no longer than 5 minutes) Please email to
blackdigtheatrecreation@gmail.com
Closing date: Monday 18th May 2026 12 noon.
Interviews held on: Thursday 21st May 2026
WE’RE LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS, LOCAL ARTISTS & VOLUNTEERS
We are always looking for new people to work with including:
-New Members for all our groups (Adults aged 18+)
-Local Artists who may like to collaborate with us or be our guest workshop leaders sharing their skills.
-Volunteers to support our members
Please get in touch if you’re interested