APPLICATION PACKBOOKKEEPER

CREATE BELIEVES IN THE POWER OF THE CREATIVE ARTS TO PROMOTE INCLUSION, EMPOWER LIVES AND INCREASE ACCEPTANCE.

Create is the UK’s leading charity empowering lives, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing

through the creative arts. Our focus is on engaging participants in inspiring, sustainable arts

programmes in areas where provision is poor and engagement in the arts is therefore low.

We know that unleashing creativity ignites imaginations, develops confidence and builds

relationships. Like setting off a firework, our professional artists light the touch paper and our

participants discover new found self-belief and a desire to try more, do more and be more.

We design and deliver creative arts workshops to engage people who don’t normally get the

chance to be creative. More than 50 projects each year bring the most vulnerable children or

adults together, tackling isolation and loneliness, building skills and promoting wellbeing. Visual

art workshops enable young people with serious mental illness to express their feelings and

emotions; creative writing projects give homeless adults a voice with which to tell their own

stories; dance workshops provide isolated young carers with the freedom to make new friends;

and music enables vulnerable older people to bond over shared memories.

This is a hugely exciting time to join Create as we aim to double our reach and income over the next five years, and establish a new northern hub in Manchester.

JOIN OUR TEAM

Lord Mayor’s Show 2018

To ensure we reach the most disadvantaged and vulnerable participants in areas of greatest need, we prioritise partner organisations that receive little or no provision from other arts providers. We select these using poverty indices and government statistics on areas of deprivation alongside data including: disability; pupil premium/entitlement to free school meals; and use of English as an additional language.

OUR SEVEN KEY GROUPS• Disabled children and adults

• Young patients

• Young and adult carers

• Vulnerable older people

• Young and adult prisoners

• Schoolchildren in areas of deprivation

• Marginalised children and adults (including homeless adults, LGBTIQ+ young people, refugees)

CREATIVITY:REVEALEDMaking it Matter found that the creative workshops left the participants with

LASTING MEMORIES of their experience.

Participants described REKINDLED

CREATIVITY and INCREASED CONFIDENCE. The final sharing of work allowed family members to witness their loved ones’

efforts and fostered a deeper SENSE OF

72.3% participants who are aged 0-18

14.7% participants who are aged 60+

50.4%participants who are

Black / Asian / ethnically diverse

40.1%participants who are

entitled to free school meals

England average 15.4%

46%participants who are

disabled / have special educational needs

During 2019/20, we worked with

WHO WE WORK WITH

CREATIVITY IS INTEGRAL TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING. IT ENRICHES AND NOURISHES YOUR SOUL.

WE SHOULD ALL HAVE SOME EXPOSURE TO CREATIVE ACTIVITY. SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS LIKE CREATE IN HELPING TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PEOPLE IS A WAY OF DOING THAT.

CREATE GIVES ME A BREAK AND ALLOWS ME TO SEE THE POSITIVES IN MY CARING ROLE AND THE POSITIVES IN LIFE. THE WORKSHOPS GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF HOURS NOT TO HAVE THE STRESS OF CARING AND JUST BE A KID AGAIN.

CREATE IS A SMALL CHARITY WITH A BIG HEART AND FIERCE AMBITION TO SUPPORT, TOUCH AND CHANGE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE THROUGH THE POWER OF THE CREATIVE ARTS. AND IT DOES THIS BRILLIANTLY.

Peter Estlin, 691st Lord Mayor of the City of London

Create Participant

Create Participant

Nicola Brentnall, ex-Director, The Queen’s Trust

CREATE IN NUMBERS

38,869participants have taken part in our projects since 2003

10,138workshops have taken place since 2003

£890,397income for 2019/20

57professional artists worked for Create in 2019/20

DIGITAL SPACEOur fast-growing social media presence includes:

1,019 Instagram followers - and growing

4,237Active twitter followers

HELP US INSPIRE IMAGINATIONS, RELEASE CREATIVITY, PROMOTE INCLUSION AND EMPOWER LIVES

42% Trusts / Foundations

26% Corporates

20% Individuals

9% Events / Community

3% Other

Income in 2019/20£890,397

inspired:arts performance at Sadler’s Wells in 2014 in partnership with Create Patron, Sir Matthew Bourne OBE

THE ROLE

Do you want to be part of a multi award-winning charity at a time of ambitious development and growth? Create is looking for an organised, ambitious and qualified Bookkeeper who has exemplary skills and whose career to date demonstrates proven success.

The Bookkeeper reports to the Director of Finance & Operations. You should have a recognised bookkeeping or accountancy qualification (AAT, IAB or equivalent to Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Bookkeeping and Accounting or similar) and at least five years of general bookkeeping experience.

You will be reliable, creative and an enthusiastic team player.

All Create personnel are required to have a DBS check, which Create will carry out upon appointment.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVESTo undertake the day to day bookkeeping of Create’s finances to ensure they are effectively managed, and that accurate and timely information is available for those who require it. Providing support, advice and financial information to the Director of Finance & Operations (DFO), Chief Executive (CEO) and Treasurer.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS• 14 hours per week (two full days or four half days)

• Salary: £23,000-£25,000 pro rata per annum dependent on experience, + annual 7.5% “loyalty scheme” (terms & conditions apply).

• 28 days holiday pro rata including eight Public Holidays.

• This position is based at Create’s offices in the City of London. The team is currently WFH during COVID-19 lockdown.

• Office hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch.

• Time Off In Lieu may be offered for any weekend work required.

• All staff are required to adhere to Create’s Dress Code. All Create personnel are required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check, which Create will carry out upon appointment.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIESResponsible for all bookkeeping duties using SAGE Line 50 Accounts including:

• Recording all financial transactions.

• Raising sales invoices, maintaining the sales ledger and monitoring debtors.

• Arranging payment of and posting purchase invoices.

• Generating VAT returns (including accurate partial exemption calculations).

• Reconciliation of all bank and control accounts.

• Working with the DFO to monitor cash flow and ensuring sufficient funds for upcoming payments.

• Maintaining the fixed asset registers and posting depreciation journals.

• Assisting the DFO in the preparation of monthly management accounts.

• Generating, processing and sending monthly artists’ self-billing invoices.

• Preparing information required by the DFO for the annual audit.

• Filing all financial paperwork in an efficient and timely manner.

Other

• Providing administrative and clerical support as needed.

• Any other duties as may be reasonably required by the CEO.

REPORTING LINEResponsible to the DFO.

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PERSON SPECIFICATION Essential Qualifications and Experience

• A recognised bookkeeping or accountancy qualification (AAT, IAB or equivalent to Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Bookkeeping and Accounting or similar).

• At least five years of general bookkeeping experience.

• Excellent IT skills with experience of SAGE Line 50 Accounts.

• Ability to work remotely when required.

Desirable Experience

• Experience of working within a charity.

• Experience and/or understanding of VAT partial exemption.

• Experience working with CRM databases, eg, Act!; Salesforce.

Job specific skills and experience

• A team player able to work in a small team and prepared to help in a wide variety of tasks.

• Enthusiasm and willingness to learn.

• Dependable and reliable: able to produce consistently high quality and quantity of work under pressure.

• An ability to work autonomously with good personal organisation and presentation.

• First class numeracy skills.

• Good prioritisation to reach decisions quickly and effectively.

• An excellent eye for detail and meticulous accuracy.

• Ability to work to strict deadlines.

• Ability to prioritise and work to disparate agendas.

• An understanding of equal opportunities issues and a commitment to diversity.

• Commitment to Create, its activities and mission.

Create is committed to a policy of equal opportunities embracing diversity in all areas of activity and welcomes applications from disabled people and people of all ethnicities.

I HAVE FOUND MY VOICE THROUGH CREATE’S ARTS PROGRAMMES. EVEN WHEN I FEEL A BIT OUT OF MY DEPTH USING NEW TECHNIQUES, I STILL FEEL COMFORTABLE HERE.

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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

Xanthe BurdettCommunications

Assistant

Wendy Dempsey

TBCTrusts &

Foundations Officer

Hannah Conway

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Mike HaydockDirector of

Communications #

Rosie BillingtonEA to the Chief

Executive & Office Manager

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Edmund Jackson

Frankie Coppola

Lydia Beardmore Matt Weir

Hannah Clayden

Kristian Sakulku

Caroline Dawson

Isabelle JonesProjects and

Research Assistant (Intern)

Chairman: Eddie Donaldson

Project Manager Project Manager Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Project Administrator

(Vacant)Development

Assistant

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The deadline for applications is 10am on Monday 5 October 2020.

1st Interviews: Wednesday 7 October (via Zoom)

2nd Interviews: Tuesday 13 October (in the Create office)

To apply, please send a completed application form with a short email providing a telephone number where you can be contacted in confidence.

Download the application form at createarts.org.uk/bookkeeper

Completed application forms can be emailed to recruitment@createarts.org.uk (please type the job title in the subject field).

No agencies / consultancies.

HOW TO APPLY

CREATE’S PROGRAMMES PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN DEVELOPING KEY SKILLS, LIKE CREATIVITY, SO THOSE MOST IN NEED IMPROVE THEIR LIFE CHANCES.

Nicole Lovett , Director, CSR, Deutsche Bank

FURTHER INFORMATION

Rosie Billington Executive Assistant to Chief ExecutiveT: 020 7374 8485E: recruitment@createarts.org.uk

Create 379 Salisbury HouseLondon Wall, LondonEC2M 5QQ

createarts.org.uk@createcharity

Registered charity number 1099733