Reporting to the Kids’ Own CEO, the Project Manager will work very closely with other members of the Kids’ Own team and the Arts in Education Portal Editorial Committee to manage the Arts In Education Portal (www.artsineducation.ie)
This is a very exciting opportunity for a dynamic, community-minded individual with excellent digital skills and event management skills combined to lead the management of the Arts in Education Portal.
Launched in 2015, the Arts in Education Portal is the key national digital resource of arts and education practice in Ireland. The ethos for the Portal is about building a community of practice within arts and creativity in education, and providing a space—both online and offline—where artists and teachers can be supported and inspired. It provides a platform through which good collaboration practice in arts-in-education and arts education will be supported, developed and enhanced.
The specifications of the role are set out below.
Key Responsibilities
The Project Manager for the Arts in Education Portal will be responsible for managing all aspects of the Arts in Education Portal, including but not limited to:
• Ongoing management of all aspects of the Arts in Education Portal website including regular content updates of project features, guest blogs, critical essays, videos, and resources.
• Liaise with, and report regularly to, the Portal Editorial Committee; and attend and lead quarterly meetings.
• Liaison with the Portal web developers to ensure the site is fully maintained and up to date with the latest software.
• Implementation of AiE Portal Digital Marketing Strategy, including web, SEO/SEM, email marketing, social media and digital advertising.
• Manage content across all platforms including email and social media in collaboration with Kids’ Own’s Digital Marketing Officer.
• Managing metrics such as Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools.
• Leading on website and social media channel optimisation for SEO as well as usability.
• Providing editorial, creative and technical support to team members and content contributors.
• Measuring, reporting and recommending on the performance of all activities both online and off.
• Creating and implementing editorial calendars in collaboration with content contributors.
• Delivering effective, cohesive, and engaging brand messaging.
• Development of and implantation of aspects of the annual Portal Commissioning Plan.
• Coordination of all Portal events: the annual National Arts in Education Portal Day and Spring Regional Day, including pre-event planning, audience engagement, organising guest speakers and management of all event logistics.
• Collaborating with the broader Kids’ Own team to ensure that the AiE Portal activities and content aligns with the ethos and remit of the Portal.
• Briefing and managing third-party suppliers, freelancers, videographers and designers to ensure on-time delivery of assets.
• Manage project budgets, in collaboration with the Creative Director and Finance Officer.
The successful applicant will have:
• A third level qualification in an area relevant to the arts in education, communications, marketing, or similar.
• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in a digital marketing with examples of visual and written content.
• An excellent understanding of the Arts in Education sector and collaborative arts practice.
• High-level, versatile writing abilities with strong attention to detail and editorial experience.
• Proficiency in designing, managing and delivering broad, multi-angle projects.
• Proven track record in creating and publishing online and offline content.
• Proficiency with popular content management systems.
• Adept at SEO best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of various social media platforms, best practices, and website analytics.
• Experience in event management ideally both online and offline.
Desirable:
• Experience in working with non-profit or charitable organisations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• The ability to work well as part of a small team.
• Highly creative with excellent analytical abilities.
• Ability to travel when required for meetings, events etc. Full drivers licence preferable.
Terms of contract:
This is a part-time post (initially 3 days per week, with a possibility of 4 days per week in 2025). An initial contract of 9 months will be offered, subject to extension. There will be a probationary period of 6 weeks.
Annual remuneration: €33,000–35,000 DOE. (pro-rata)
There is potential for this position to be hybrid (remote and office-based). However, the successful candidate will need to be able to attend the office regularly.
Applications:
Candidates should send a detailed CV and cover letter to Kids’ Own Creative Director,
Ciara Gallagher at: ciara@kidsown.ie by Thursday the 12th of September at 5pm.
Reference No: COF524
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Application Form and further details can be downloaded from our website at www.msletb.ie
Completed Application Forms on the official MSL ETB Application Form are only accepted by email in PDF format to: employment@msletb.ie
It is vital to insert the Reference Number only of the Post on the “subject line” of your email and only applications containing the 6 digit Reference Number in the subject line of the email will be accepted.
JWR Employment Specialists are recruiting a Tooling Technician for a Sligo based
client.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced candidate to be a specialist
technical resource for tooling maintenance and supporting production and
troubleshooting activities.
Duties include;
• Maintain and promote high standards in health and safety and house-keeping
• Carry out daily preventative maintenance tasks on a variety of multi cavity
injection mould tooling
• Liaise with Production team in troubleshooting mould problems and quality
issues
• Responsible for Jigs & Fixture manufacture and maintenance
• Inspection and measurement of tooling spare parts
• Adherence to spare part management system and accompanying documentation
• Attends internal meetings to help establish priorities and assigned tasks
• Promoting a teamwork culture within the facility
• Ensure all relevant documentation is filled out as per company procedures
• Supporting tooling transfer processes
Skills and Qualifications:
• Toolmaking qualification plus time served with a toolmaker, with experience in a
mould maintenance environment.
• Knowledge of latest mould tool technology.
• Good understanding of the injection moulding process.
• Previous experience in the manufacture and/or repair/maintenance of the
following mould types would be a distinct advantage: Multi cavity moulds, Hot
Runner moulds, Valve gated moulds
• Knowledge of Electrics, Hydraulics and Pneumatics would be an advantage.
• Possess a good understanding and application of lean principles and problemsolving techniques.
• Ability to use troubleshooting techniques.
• Knowledge of a wide variety of plastics and mould types.
• Computer literate e.g. Solid Works, MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
would be an advantage.
• Able to take responsibility and work on one’s own initiative
• An innovative approach to problem solvin
Who We Are:
Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.
What We Do:
We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.
We’re scaling rapidly and need your skills to develop key components for our marketing and personalisation platforms!
What you will do:
Develop and maintain production-ready code
Automate and execute comprehensive testing
Contribute to design and process improvements.
Integrate applications with standard APIs.
Support and maintain production systems
Engage actively in Agile workflows
Skills required:
- 2+ years of software development experience
- Good technical skills in programming, Java, C#
- Proficiency in SQL and database management
- Spring, RESTful APIs.
- Experience in unit/integration testing
- Strong communication skills and ability to work well in a team
Nice to have:
- Knowlege of event driven architecture
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Knowledge of JavaScript
- Exposure to working with GCP
What you will learn :
- Utilising the latest technologies and approaches like Kubernetes/Docker, Apache Pulsar and GCP in a CI/CD environment
- Strategies for monitoring and supporting an event driven system.
- GCP cloud technologies
Education:
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
What We Value:
- Life/Work Balance
- Pride in Production
- Trust
- Challenge yourself, inspire others
- Success through diversity
Equal Employment Opportunity:
It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).
Reference No: STA124
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Completed Application Forms on the official MSL ETB Application Form are only accepted by email in PDF format to: employment@msletb.ie
It is vital to insert the Reference Number only of the Post on the “subject line” of your email and only applications containing the 6 digit Reference Number in the subject line of the email will be accepted.
Reference No: CTST24
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Application Form and further details for the above post can be downloaded from our website at www.msletb.ie
Completed Application Forms on the official MSL ETB Application Form are only accepted by email in PDF format to: employment@msletb.ie
It is vital to insert the Reference Number only of the Post on the “subject line” of your email and only applications containing the 6 digit Reference Number in the subject line of the email will be accepted.
Applications are invited for the following permanent position:
Reference No: CTGP24
Grade: CARETAKER
Conditions: Permanent whole time
Initial Location: Grange Post Primary School
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Application Form and further details for the above post can be downloaded from our website at www.msletb.ie
Only MSLETB application forms will be accepted.
Reference No: CTOS24
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Completed Application Forms on the official MSL ETB Application Form are only accepted by email in PDF format to: employment@msletb.ie
It is vital to insert the Reference Number only of the Post on the “subject line” of your email and only applications containing the 6 digit Reference Number in the subject line of the email will be accepted.
Reference No – GRAVA24
Qualifications, salary scales and conditions of service as per Department of Education guidelines.
Application Form and further details for the above post can be downloaded from our website at www.msletb.ie
Completed Application Forms on the official MSL ETB Application Form are only accepted by email in PDF format to: employment@msletb.ie
It is vital to insert the Reference Number only of the Post on the “subject line” of your email and only applications containing the 6 digit Reference Number in the subject line of the email will be accepted.
Who We Are:
Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.
What We Do:
We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.
The Principal Developer will work closely with a dynamic team of developers who all share a common goal: building highly reliable and scalable systems.
What you will do
- Develop and enhance technical solutions for enterprise-level projects, playing a key role throughout the software development lifecycle
- Identify and mitigate technical risks for software projects
- Discover and document functional requirements
- Determine non-functional requirements for technical solutions and implement solutions that deliver upon them
- Diagnose production problems via analysis of observability data including traces, metrics, and logs
- Lead database schema design
- Conduct technical performance assessments and implement improvements
- Participate in the on-call rotation with other members of the team
Skills Required
- 8+ years of software development experience
- 1+ years in a leadership or staff engineer role or greater
- Experience building high performance, scalable web applications
- Strong experience with Java SE 8 or greater, Java 21 preferred
- Strong database and SQL experience, Postgres 13 or later preferred
- Experience building REST and/or GraphQL web services, Spring Boot 3 and Spring 6 preferred
- Experience building and designing asynchronous, message-driven systems with the publish-subscribe pattern
- Deep understanding of the entire software development lifecycle
- Ability to make tradeoffs for cost, scope/effort, risk, and quality
What We Value:
Life/Work Balance
Pride in Production
Trust
Challenge yourself, inspire others
Success through diversity
Equal Employment Opportunity:
It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).
