Project Pigeon

[THE FIFER]

job description

Project Assistant

10 hours per week over 52 weeks,time to be spread over a few days per week Key objectives:

To provide effective and efficient administrative support for Project Pigeon’s Birmingham Pigeon Archive Project

Responsible to:

Project Pigeon’s directors

Based at:

Project office (Birmingham) and remotely/ from home

Salrary: £3750 (10 hours per week for 52 weeks)

This is a freelance position and the post holder is responsible for their own tax and national insurance

Closing date for applications: Friday 6th January 2012

Please email applications to: projectpigeondigbeth@gmail.com

 

 

Key responsibilities:

1. Assist Project Pigeon with administration and co-ordination of the Birmingham Pigeon Archive Project including:

·Emailing, making telephone calls, filing archival material, photocopying material, digitising material, researching, making appointments, keeping budgets, proof reading, backing up data, help make transcripts and assist with mail-outs

·Organise and attend project meetings with project steering group

2.Assist Project Pigeon with recruiting and managing volunteers

3.Assist with working with young people and pigeon fanciers

4.Attend oral history, documentary film and archival training

5.Ongoing assistance with project evaluation

 

Person specification:

Skills

·Ability to coordinate and deliver administrative support

·Excellent communication skills with a wide range of people, particularly young people and older people

·Excellent filing and organisational skills

·Excellent planning skills

·Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise

·Good IT skills- word processing, spreadsheets, email, internet

·Good numeracy skills

·Accuracy in editing and proof reading

·Support other people in their work

 

Knowledge

·Some knowledge of archiving, oral history or an interest in the area

·Some knowledge, understanding or interest in pigeon fancying and its heritage

 

Experience of

·At least two years experience of project support/ project management

·Working in a museum, art gallery or office environment

·Working with a wide range of people, including volunteers

·Working on publications

·Keeping budgets

 

 

To apply:

 

Please send your CV and a letter of application starting why you are interested in this position and your relevant experience, please email you application to: projectpigeondigbeth@gmail.com

 

The post holder will be required to have a CRB check.

 

Project Pigeon is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Pigeon fancying is a fascinating part of the West Midlands’ social history and still today Birmingham has more pigeon fanciers than any other UK city. Birmingham has local claims to international fame such as the breeding of the performance flying pigeon the Birmingham Roller and the development of pigeon racing charts the development of the Industrial Revolution in the region.

 

In celebration of Birmingham’s rich pigeon fancying heritage Project Pigeon is making an archive about the history and culture of pigeon fancying in the area. We are working with volunteers to make oral history recordings and video interviews with fanciers and collecting memorabilia. A publication about pigeon fancying in the region is being made and a radio play based on the material in the archive is being produced and broadcast on radio. When completed in 2013 the archive will be housed at Birmingham Library Archive and at Bletchley Park for future generations to access.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS February to May 2012

Project Pigeon has several opportunities for you to get involved, see below information about volunteering and the job description for the Project Assistant

Project Pigeon: Birmingham Pigeon Archive

 

Job description

Project Assistant

10 hours per week over 52 weeks, time to be spread over a few days per week

Project Pigeon needs a number of volunteers to assist Project Pigeon with:

 

•Interviewing and recording local pigeon fanciers. We will be making both voice and video recordings. The voice recordings will be made between February and May 2012 and the video recordings between May and July 2012.

•Editing the voice and video recording

•Training will be given (see "What and When below)

 

What and When:

 

•Oral history training will take place on Saturday 4th February 2012 between 10am and 4pm. During this day you will learn interviewing skills, how to use equipment and editing skills. Lunch will be provided.

•The interviews will take place between February and May. Interviews will be done in pairs and if appropriate a member of Project Pigeon will accompany you.

•Project Pigeon will arrange the interviews at a time and date most convenient to you and the pigeon fancier.

•Project Pigeon will try to match interviewers and interviewee (pigeon fancier) according to interests.

•Following the interview you may be required to assist Project Pigeon with editing the recording.

•Each interview will take approximately half a day including traveling time.

•The majority of interviews will take place at individual pigeon fanciers pigeon lofts.

•Your time commitment will be at least one day for training plus about half a day for each interview.

•Additional time for editing may be required.

•Following the completion of the oral history’s video interviewing will begin in May.

•The interviews you make will go into The Birmingham Pigeon Archive and will be housed in Birmingham Library for members of the public to access. The material cannot be used for other purposes unless permission is granted by the library.

•All questions should be directed towards Project Pigeon: projectpigeondigbeth@gmail.com/ 07967637017

 

Other information:

 

• Your travel expenses will be reimbursed

• Lunch and refreshments will be provided

• Project Pigeon will provide all the equipment

[andy Burgess]

good little job for some-one , and i noticed travel expenses would be re-imbursed

[just ask me]

seems a good little job going there

[Guest Tooshy Boy]

GOOD WE JOB FOR SOMEONE.THAT IS KEAN ON PIGEONS .///