Project Manager, Developer & Facilitator

Cube is a vocational media project offering a range of support for young writers and creatives, primarily through innovative work experience opportunities. The project publishes a diversity of media work by and for young people, through a print and web-based magazine, an online radio station and related projects and exhibitions.

Key roles and achievements:

• Management and coordination of the project and its media platforms as a whole, including: building and developing strong partnerships [creative, media and schools], hiring and supervising freelance staff, administrative duties, marketing, scheduling programmes, budgeting, maintaining web presence, preparing and distributing the printed magazine.

• Development and coordination of interesting and challenging work placement programmes, where young people are active in negotiating the nature and direction of personal and collective work. Encouragement of personal growth in young people through a mature vocational context, offering individualised learning, one to one mentoring and detailed feedback and work references. 

• Training and facilitation in: journalism, radio, creative writing, design, illustration, photography, filmmaking. Initiation, development and co-delivery of Cube Xtra - a graphic design, illustration and filmmaking strand of work experience, which included forming a steering group of young people. [Mediabox funded]