MOSS Assistant

Main Duties

MOSS (Makers Of Stuff Squad) is Turf’s collective of learning disabled adult artists. MOSS and Turf have been working together since 2014 to create work inspired by their lives in Croydon. Turf facilitates space for MOSS to hold regular workshops for the artists on Friday afternoons where they are supported in their own artistic practices and work on collaborative projects. MOSS also have a studio at Turf, where MOSS artists often work on their individual projects and commissions.

This role is to assist the MOSS Lead and current MOSS Assistant to set up and run the Friday afternoon sessions and to support the MOSS artists in their artistic practices. Experience of working with learning disabled adults is essential.

Key responsibilities

• Working with Daisy Young, MOSS Lead, Uma Carauna-Klasson, MOSS Assistant, and any MOSS Volunteers to set up, run, and pack down workshops on Friday afternoons.
• Supporting MOSS artists to participate in workshops and/or nurturing their individual arts practices.
• Updating and monitoring the MOSS instagram.
  • Social media experience, or a willingness to learn, is a plus!
• Reporting safeguarding issues to Rosie Crane Eckmire, CoDirector & Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Essential things to know about working at Turf

• Turf is a registered charity with a board of trustees who oversee our work. You’d need to align with Turf and the Charity Commission’s policies on finance management, code of conduct, conflict of interest, health and safety, equal opportunities & safeguarding.

Skills and Experience Required

Person specification:

• An affinity with Turf’s aims and ethos. We strive to be welcoming, kind, accessible and curious, conscious of our duty to the public and those we work with.
• You’ll be kind, empathetic, and a good listener.
• An active knowledge of safeguarding, particularly in the context of working with vulnerable adults.
• Balanced and boundaried; able to navigate difficult situations and topics sensitively and compassionately. You’ll promote artists’ creative autonomy by discerning when to offer support and when to follow their own creative threads.
• You’ll be great at communication and collaborating. You’ll be patient, kind, curious and able to work with individuals and organisations from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience.
• You’ll have an active interest in arts and culture with an awareness of current arts and socio-political discourses (i.e. you like to interrogate things and ask questions!).
• Turf is an artist-led space, so we’d love to hear about your artistic practice if you have one. This is important as we all feed into programming at Turf.
• Personal connections to & active knowledge of Croydon.