Opportunities

Creative Practice Access Support

This is a role for someone who is genuinely excited by Ray Young’s practice and wants to be part of what comes next. Someone who thinks ahead, holds the detail, and is proud of the work they support.

 

About the Practice

Ray Young is a Creative Director, artist, coach, and public speaker based in Nottingham. With over 16 years of experience making internationally touring performance work, Ray holds a practice that spans multiple concurrent projects, a growing coaching and mentoring offer for underrepresented creatives through The Underestimated, and an active speaking and public engagement stream.

Ray works in a neuro-affirming way. This is not a policy but a way of being, and should be evident in how you communicate, prioritise, and support the work

 

About the Role

This role exists to provide high-level access support that enables Ray to carry out their creative work. It sits at the heart of Ray’s practice, combining cognitive and executive functioning support to help manage the coordination of a complex, multi-strand creative business.

The operational elements of the role are not separate from access support; they are the means by which access is delivered. By holding administrative, logistical, and organisational infrastructure, the role creates the conditions in which Ray is able to focus, think, and produce creative work. Without this support, that work would not be possible.

Day to day, this includes supporting with inbox and diary management, travel and logistics coordination, professional correspondence and copy, relationship management, financial administration, document creation and management, social media scheduling, website maintenance, and maintaining the business’s administrative systems. This reduces cognitive load, supports prioritisation, and ensures continuity.

There is also an advocacy dimension; this person represents Ray’s interests and protects Ray’s time and energy with confidence and care.

The role requires clear prioritisation at all times, and a strong ability to multi-task.  Access needs and protecting Ray’s capacity always come first. The right person understands that their primary function is to enable Ray’s ability to work, and manages their workload accordingly.

  • Freelance
  • 16 hours per week, spread across the week.
  • £25 / hour
  • Hybrid – remote with some in-person work – Nottingham

 

Skills and Experience

Proven skills

  • Diary and schedule management at a senior level; juggling complexity without dropping detail
  • Travel and logistics coordination; thinking ahead, booking with care, anticipating what is needed
  • Professional written communication; drafting correspondence clearly and in someone else’s voice
  • Financial literacy; budget tracking, invoice management, and basic financial administration
  • Relationship management; warm, professional, and able to hold boundaries with confidence
  • Social media scheduling and content management across professional platforms
  • Research; finding answers independently and bringing what you find back clearly

Experience

  • A background in high-level coordination, operations, or support; the sector matters less than the quality of your experience
  • Experience working closely with and on behalf of a senior individual or organisation
  • Comfortable working across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Experience in or alongside the arts, charity, or creative sectors is desirable and will be an advantage
  • An understanding of disability justice and neuro-affirming practice is desirable; lived experience or professional experience both valued

Personal qualities

  • Genuinely interested in Ray’s practice; you can articulate what excites you about it
  • Proactive; you anticipate what is needed and bring solutions
  • Detail oriented; you notice the small things, maintain accuracy, and ensure nothing slips through the cracks
  • Accountable; you follow through, and when something goes wrong you say so immediately
  • Discreet; you can hold sensitive information and navigate complex relationships professionally
  • Warm and emotionally intelligent; you understand people and read situations well
  • Intersectional awareness; you understand that identity, including queerness, race, disability, and class, shapes how people move through the world and you bring that awareness into how you work, communicate, and make decisions, and to how you would advocate for Ray.

We particularly welcome applications from people from the global majority.

To Apply

Complete the APPLICATION FORM.

Please apply by end of 23rd May, with a view to interviews taking place on 1st June.