With the assistance of the Healthy Ireland Fund in Cork City and County Let’s Play Cork are currently recruiting for a part time Play Development Officer.
With the assistance of the Healthy Ireland Fund in Cork City and County Let’s Play Cork are currently recruiting for a part time Play Development Officer.
The post will be hosted by Meitheal Mara, a partner on the project.
Let’s Play Cork Project is a partnership between Cork City Council, Cork County Council Cork Healthy Cities, Cork Sports Partnership, Young Knocknaheeny, Meitheal Mara, Cork Education & Training Board and Cork City & County Library Services that seeks to use Play to promote place-making, social inclusion and health. Let’s Play Cork seeks to deliver and support policies, events, programmes and projects that use play as a strategy for engaging stakeholders in activating public spaces.
As a partnership group actively promoting the increase of opportunities for play within the city for all ages, the Playful Cork City Project two strategic objectives:
The group originated as part of Cork City’s active participation in the EU funded URBACT program “Playful Paradigm”. URBACT is an EU funding stream which encourages cities across the union to explore innovative and sustainable methods to tackle shared challenges and is based on a learning transfer model. In late 2018, Cork City successfully progressed to Phase 2 of the Playful Paradigm URBACT programme. As part of the programme Cork City has actively engaged with the City of Udine (Italy) as ‘Lead City’, and the other partner cites, to share learnings from the models, methods and policy approaches to increasing opportunities for play, and to transfer good practise to their own municipalities.
It is now proposed that Let’s Play Cork will develop into a city and county wide initiative with this joint Healthy Ireland funding proposal
The aim of the part-time Play Development Officer is to strengthen and enhance the capacity of Let’s Play Cork to further develop locally led plans and more long term sustainable play programmes across Cork City and County.
Click the link to find out more about the position and how to apply.
