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36 Positions Available in EPWP Social Cohesion Project

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The National Government’s Extended Public Work Program (EPWP) in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality EPWP Office, Red Location Art Gallery and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, are running a social cohesion project to support the visual art and craft community in Nelson Mandela Bay.

The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is a government initiative designed to create job opportunities, sustainable livelihoods, and skills development for poor and unemployed people.

There are six (6) positions for art facilitators and thirty (30) positions for art students. The project will run for a duration of six (6) months.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

ART FACILITATORS A selection process will take place at the Mendi Art Centre on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024 at 10:00am.

For consideration:

  • Each candidate must provide a curriculum vitae (CV) which reflects experience as an artist and art teacher in order to be considered for the project.
  • A reference letter confirming the experience of teaching must be included. A formal teaching qualification is not required.
  • Facilitators will be asked to present the art/craft skill they will be teaching. Each facilitator will be expected to teach five (5) students over the age of eighteen (18) years.

Potential facilitators will need to indicate where the classes will take place. NMBM Arts and Culture will be available to assist to look for venues.

ART STUDENTS

Once the facilitators are selected a separate selection process will take place for potential visual arts and crafts participants to benefit from the art facilitators knowledge. This process will ensure that the right student is placed with the right facilitator. Students must bring an example of their work for consideration. The date for this selection will be announced once the facilitator has been selected.

The selection committee will comprise EPWP officials, NMBM Arts and Culture officials and other role players in the arts industry in Nelson Mandela Bay. Once selected participants will sign a contract with the EPWP office.

To benefit from this opportunity selected participants must comply with the EPWP conditions of contract. The EPWP daily rate for the facilitators will be five-hundred-rand (R 500) and each facilitator will be expected to work four (4) days a week for the duration of the project.

For more information please contact:

  • Nomabaso Bedeshe on cell: 079 694 0618 and email: nbedeshe@mandelametro.gov.za
  • Pumla Mtanga on cell: 079 694 0637 and email: pmtanga@mandelametro.gov.za
  • Emma O’ Brien on cell: 079 490 0690 and email: eobrien@mandelametro.gov.za
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