TENDER OPPORTUNITY: international DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
D6: Culture in Transit is seeking to appoint an International Development Advisor who will support us find new avenues for international activity in the UK. This role will support D6's small team and a committed Board to identify ways to access international revenue streams and repackage our extensive international expertise to promote D6 as a subcontractor or expert on transnational programmes.
Fee: £1500 (inclusive of VAT). We expect this fee to cover 3-5 days based upon the Deliverables below. Reimbursement of reasonable UK travel expenses to be agreed.
Contract timeframe: 20 April - 30 June 2023
Deadline for applications: 10 April 2023
BACKGROUND
D6: Culture in Transit is a visual arts organisation which holds a unique position in the North of Tyne area. With three decades of international development and creative delivery, we have worked in partnership to deliver 60 commissions with partners across 24 countries in the past 10 years.
As a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, D6 builds revenue through international, public, local authority and philanthropic grants to deliver socially relevant visual arts practice through artist residencies, artistic research, public events and exhibitions, providing project and sector-wide opportunities for learning and engagement. We are also proactively seeking avenues to develop academic partnerships and postgraduate research opportunities.
Since 2006 we have led major international partnership projects, including Creative Europe programmes to explore shared social and environmental concerns: CORNERS (2014-18) drew threads between post-industrial communities, from Blyth to Taranto to Gdansk; CONTESTED DESIRES (2019-22) explored colonial heritage with artists and partners in Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Italy and Barbados, working regionally with local partners.
Our current British Council programmes bring Ukrainian artists and curators to Newcastle as part of the UK/Ukraine Season; and with a major International Collaboration Programme grant we support artists in exile with partners in Irbid (Jordan), Istanbul (Turkey) and Paris (France).
We have taken up senior board positions on European and international networks (including Culture Action Europe 2011-18 and Res Artis 2019-22) and served as experts for the EU Commission and United Cities and Local Governments. We are active members of On The Move mobility platform and regularly contribute to international conferences and events. (Most recently at Culturopolis in Barcelona on Cultural Rights).
In 2021 we opened a small sister NGO in Cyprus (D6:EU) to maintain and grow our international expertise, building new connections in the Eastern Mediterranean. For D6:EU, we embraced the New EU Agenda for Culture, European Green Deal and New European Bauhaus, producing a series of international dialogues addressing culture and the European green agenda; and for the recent March 2023 deadline devised and submitted 3 Creative Europe applications exploring routes to triangulate activity back to the UK. Few in the UK will have maintained and grown such knowledge.
ADAPTING TO A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
Emerging from COVID-19, we have felt the full impact of Brexit, with new visa regulations for incoming international and outgoing UK artists, and the UK now ineligible for European programmes that previously underpinned our business.
We are experts in our field, but now, at the end of the EU transition period, the UK’s relationship with Europe and beyond has changed logistically, financially and reputationally. We cannot lead a Creative Europe programme, nor apply for regional structural funds, and our extraordinary British Council successes are unlikely to be repeatedly reoffered. So what do we do with our knowledge, our history, our contacts and our unique ability to connect the North East of England culturally to the rest of the world?
ABOUT THIS TENDER OPPORTUNITY
Our business models need to adapt to maximise the alternative routes available for international activity. We are seeking to appoint an Advisor who will support our small part-time team of five staff members and a committed Board to identify ways to form partnerships to access international revenue streams and repackage our expertise.
This role will support D6 to reframe our extensive international expertise as project leaders and partners, building on our:
To do this, the Advisor will work with us to research and evaluate potential revenue streams and partnership opportunities, to revisit how we pitch and communicate our offer and to review our financial modelling in the context of our business plan and 3-year fundraising plan.
DELIVERABLES
We anticipate the fee will cover 3-5 days' time to prepare and deliver the following:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
The appointed Advisor will have a track record of successfully supporting arts organisations to diversify their revenue in an international context. They will have extensive knowledge of international funding opportunities available from public and private sources. They will be active in national and international cultural networks, with an awareness of the international and intercultural context in which D6 works.
TIMELINE
On appointment, the contract will last for three months, from April until June 2023. Dates for working sessions with team and board are negotiable subject to review/availability.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Applicants for this consultancy role must confirm in their proposal that there would be no conflict or perceived conflict of interest in relation to this contract.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications should cover no more than two sides of A4 and should include the following:
Please also attach a brief CV, and provide the names and contact details of two referees who have worked with you in the last five years.
Please send your application and CV to Clymene Christoforou, (Director of D6 and Co-Director of D6: EU) - [email protected].
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, or to discuss any access requirements that would enable you to apply for this position, please contact: Clymene Christoforou, [email protected].
USEFUL LINKS
D6: Culture in Transit www.d6culture.org
D6:EU www.d6.eu
Facebook: @D6cultureintransit Twitter: @D6culture Instagram: @d6culture
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/d6culture
Fee: £1500 (inclusive of VAT). We expect this fee to cover 3-5 days based upon the Deliverables below. Reimbursement of reasonable UK travel expenses to be agreed.
Contract timeframe: 20 April - 30 June 2023
Deadline for applications: 10 April 2023
BACKGROUND
D6: Culture in Transit is a visual arts organisation which holds a unique position in the North of Tyne area. With three decades of international development and creative delivery, we have worked in partnership to deliver 60 commissions with partners across 24 countries in the past 10 years.
As a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, D6 builds revenue through international, public, local authority and philanthropic grants to deliver socially relevant visual arts practice through artist residencies, artistic research, public events and exhibitions, providing project and sector-wide opportunities for learning and engagement. We are also proactively seeking avenues to develop academic partnerships and postgraduate research opportunities.
Since 2006 we have led major international partnership projects, including Creative Europe programmes to explore shared social and environmental concerns: CORNERS (2014-18) drew threads between post-industrial communities, from Blyth to Taranto to Gdansk; CONTESTED DESIRES (2019-22) explored colonial heritage with artists and partners in Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Italy and Barbados, working regionally with local partners.
Our current British Council programmes bring Ukrainian artists and curators to Newcastle as part of the UK/Ukraine Season; and with a major International Collaboration Programme grant we support artists in exile with partners in Irbid (Jordan), Istanbul (Turkey) and Paris (France).
We have taken up senior board positions on European and international networks (including Culture Action Europe 2011-18 and Res Artis 2019-22) and served as experts for the EU Commission and United Cities and Local Governments. We are active members of On The Move mobility platform and regularly contribute to international conferences and events. (Most recently at Culturopolis in Barcelona on Cultural Rights).
In 2021 we opened a small sister NGO in Cyprus (D6:EU) to maintain and grow our international expertise, building new connections in the Eastern Mediterranean. For D6:EU, we embraced the New EU Agenda for Culture, European Green Deal and New European Bauhaus, producing a series of international dialogues addressing culture and the European green agenda; and for the recent March 2023 deadline devised and submitted 3 Creative Europe applications exploring routes to triangulate activity back to the UK. Few in the UK will have maintained and grown such knowledge.
ADAPTING TO A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
Emerging from COVID-19, we have felt the full impact of Brexit, with new visa regulations for incoming international and outgoing UK artists, and the UK now ineligible for European programmes that previously underpinned our business.
We are experts in our field, but now, at the end of the EU transition period, the UK’s relationship with Europe and beyond has changed logistically, financially and reputationally. We cannot lead a Creative Europe programme, nor apply for regional structural funds, and our extraordinary British Council successes are unlikely to be repeatedly reoffered. So what do we do with our knowledge, our history, our contacts and our unique ability to connect the North East of England culturally to the rest of the world?
ABOUT THIS TENDER OPPORTUNITY
Our business models need to adapt to maximise the alternative routes available for international activity. We are seeking to appoint an Advisor who will support our small part-time team of five staff members and a committed Board to identify ways to form partnerships to access international revenue streams and repackage our expertise.
This role will support D6 to reframe our extensive international expertise as project leaders and partners, building on our:
- Long history of international partnership development.
- Participation in EU Programmes and wider global opportunities, now shaping projects with sister organisation D6:EU, and testing D6 (UK) in a role as a subcontractor.
- Partnerships on British Council programmes.
- Contributions as experts in international conferences and events.
- Role as technical advisors, consultants and/or evaluators for projects led by international cultural organisations.
To do this, the Advisor will work with us to research and evaluate potential revenue streams and partnership opportunities, to revisit how we pitch and communicate our offer and to review our financial modelling in the context of our business plan and 3-year fundraising plan.
DELIVERABLES
We anticipate the fee will cover 3-5 days' time to prepare and deliver the following:
- A review of key planning documents: D6 Business Plan and Fundraising Schedule
- Preparation and delivery of three workshop sessions with the D6 staff team and Board:
- To review D6's international expertise creating a 'CV' that itemises the special niche things we’ve been particularly good at in relation to transnational programmes, and specifies how we see our role flourishing in that niche in future.
- To review new opportunities:
- routes for D6 to join with other like-minded organisations to access international funds for all the organisations’ respective separate programmes;
- for potential subcontracting role(s) for D6;
- on international partnership funding opportunities.
- routes for D6 to join with other like-minded organisations to access international funds for all the organisations’ respective separate programmes;
- To redefine D6’s consultancy offer and how this is promoted for potential tender opportunities.
- To review D6's international expertise creating a 'CV' that itemises the special niche things we’ve been particularly good at in relation to transnational programmes, and specifies how we see our role flourishing in that niche in future.
- A 'pitch' document for D6’s offer, agreed with D6 Board:
- For D6 as a pre-eminent sector expert on these issues, being a practice exemplar, providing leadership on knowledge-exchange and policy advocacy;
- Defining a consultancy function for D6 to advise other organisations on how they can access international funding themselves.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
The appointed Advisor will have a track record of successfully supporting arts organisations to diversify their revenue in an international context. They will have extensive knowledge of international funding opportunities available from public and private sources. They will be active in national and international cultural networks, with an awareness of the international and intercultural context in which D6 works.
TIMELINE
On appointment, the contract will last for three months, from April until June 2023. Dates for working sessions with team and board are negotiable subject to review/availability.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Applicants for this consultancy role must confirm in their proposal that there would be no conflict or perceived conflict of interest in relation to this contract.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications should cover no more than two sides of A4 and should include the following:
- An outline of how your previous skills and experience will enable you to fulfil the requirements of the brief.
- A description of your proposed approach to the work. This should outline how you will identify and evaluate the appropriateness of new international revenue streams for D6’s programme, and how you will approach the working sessions with the team and Board to develop D6’s consultancy pitch.
- An indicative schedule of work.
Please also attach a brief CV, and provide the names and contact details of two referees who have worked with you in the last five years.
Please send your application and CV to Clymene Christoforou, (Director of D6 and Co-Director of D6: EU) - [email protected].
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, or to discuss any access requirements that would enable you to apply for this position, please contact: Clymene Christoforou, [email protected].
USEFUL LINKS
D6: Culture in Transit www.d6culture.org
D6:EU www.d6.eu
Facebook: @D6cultureintransit Twitter: @D6culture Instagram: @d6culture
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/d6culture