Helium Arts is seeking an enthusiastic, effective, and highly organised Community Outreach and Communications Officer to implement regional outreach activity in Cork, Limerick, Galway, Dublin, and surrounding areas.

About the job

The primary responsibility of this role is to build relationships, increasing awareness and access to Helium Arts' Creative Health Programmes, particularly targeting marginalised and vulnerable children across health, education, and social care sectors. 

The goal is to increase participation of marginalised and vulnerable children in our programme to achieve our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals as set out in our Strategy 2023-2027. 

The Outreach and Communications Officer role requires:

• excellent presentation

• networking

• relationship building skills

• an ability to strongly advocate for the children we support.

Local engagement activity may include taster workshops, presentations and talks, and site tours. 

The Officer will be flexible and capable of managing competing priorities within their workload and will have a robust knowledge of effective communications and community outreach approaches. This role will entail regular travel to regional locations across the country as well as time at the desk and on the phone. This is an excellent opportunity to join Helium Arts at an exciting point in the organisation's development where the successful candidate will be making a significant contribution to the work of Helium Arts.

Helium Arts is an award-winning children’s arts and health charity that aims to improve the personal, health and social outcomes of children and young people with lifelong physical health conditions by providing opportunities for creativity that they may not otherwise have access to.

Through a series of arts-based workshops, they create safe and inclusive spaces that inspire creativity, spark friendships, and improve mental health and well-being. The children and young people we work with include those with disabilities, lifelong physical health conditions and those from migrant and refugee backgrounds.