Creative & Digital Industry Specialists

Real Creative Futures is New Art Exchange’s innovative business support programme for individuals and SMEs working in the Creative and Digital industries.

Real Creative Futures will help creative entrepreneurs to establish and grow, and to link them through to a range of business support services tailored to the needs of creative and digital businesses in the city of Nottingham and beyond, either as start-ups or as established SMEs, through 12 hours of free support including coaching and one‐to‐one mentoring from experts and advisers who have real experience from within the creative and digital industries.

We’re now recruiting for Creative & Digital Industry Specialists to join the Real Creative Futures team.

The role of the Creative & Digital Industry Specialists will be to provide specialist professional mentoring to individuals in the creative sector participating in the Real Creative Futures programme. Candidates will be willing to form a creative pool of specialists for NAE to draw upon to assist in the delivery of the project, to read the Call Out with instructions on how to apply visit: http://www.realcreativefutures.co.uk/team/

It is anticipated that Creative Industry Specialists will be asked to work with creative clients on the basis of demand as it develops. This may take the form of face to face meetings, conversations via email/social media or leading a workshop.

Where the Creative Industry Specialist is commissioned to work with a client or lead a workshop then the NAE has a standard range of payment for business mentors equating to £300 per day inclusive of VAT pro rata, plus reasonable expenses.

The areas of specialism NAE is seeking support with, include:
• software, games and digital publishing
• advertising and marketing
• product, graphic and fashion design
• architecture
• photography, film & video
• broadcasting, TV & radio
• music
• crafts
• visual arts
• performing arts

Real Creative Futures is part of The Big House project and is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)