The British Council seeks ‘Specialist Assessors’ with expertise to support the Cultural Protection Fund grants team, now managing the Cultural Protection Fund, the new £30 million fund to help create opportunities for economic and social development and promote cultural heritage in conflict-affected regions overseas, with a closing date of Friday 15 July 2016 at 5 p.m.
The British Council writes:
In partnership with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the British Council is managing the Cultural Protection Fund. The objective for the new £30 million fund is to help create opportunities for economic and social development through building capacity to foster, safeguard and promote cultural heritage in conflict-affected regions overseas.
The British Council wishes to appoint Specialist Assessors to support the Cultural Protection Fund grants team by providing advice on grant applications. We envisage this will require a commitment of approximately three days twice a year in Feb/Mar and Aug/Sept to support the assessment of applications. The Assessor will be asked to deliver a brief report on each application that they are sent for review, for which we will offer a standard daily consultancy rate. Acting as a Specialist Assessor will not disqualify you from making an application to the Fund, provided there are no conflicts of interest.
Eligible applicants will be able to demonstrate competence in an area of cultural heritage relevant to the Fund (museums, archives, libraries, archaeology and monuments, buildings or intangible heritage) and will possess experience in at least one of the relevant skill or knowledge areas detailed in the application form. Experience of cultural heritage work in developing countries or in any of the Fund’s current target countries (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen) will be advantageous but is not a requirement. If you are interested in applying to be a Specialist Assessor, please contact Hayley Gardiner (Hayley.Gardiner@britishcouncil.org) to request an application form.
The closing date for submitting completed application forms is Friday 15 July 2016 at 5 p.m.
