Job Introduction
Bradford Museums and Galleries runs four historic venues located in different areas of Bradford district and attract 150,000 visits in addition to 18,000 school visits annually. The museum service works to ensure that everyone can experience and contribute to the Bradford district story. All our museums are in neighbourhoods with diverse and changing populations and provide places for people to learn about and celebrate their heritage in welcoming spaces where people from all communities can feel safe to be themselves and have opportunities to learn, share and create.
We are looking for a dynamic individual, preferably with either museum and/or teaching experience, to enhance the museum and gallery learning experience by devising and delivering high quality learning services to schools, students, and special needs groups. Responsible for developing and maintaining the learning offer across the service working closely with the learning and service staff teams.
The main responsibilities of this role:
- To develop and deliver National-Curriculum related programmes of activities, live interpretation and workshops for schools relating to our Core Collections
- To assist schools with pre and post visit information and supporting materials.
- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the sector (formal and informal learning) particularly with respect to changes in the National Curriculum
If you are a versatile communicator with a passion for (museum) learning and recent experience of delivering programmes for a range of audiences in a heritage, arts or education context we would like to hear from you. https://bradfordmuseums.org/
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining our team and would like some further information, please contact Andrew Gray on email andrew.gray@bradford.gov.uk or 07977 814334
Employee Offer
Why work for Bradford Council? Find out why by taking a look at Our Employee Offer.pdf .
Equal Opportunities
We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee directly or indirectly on the grounds of gender, marital status, gender re-assignment, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic background, religion or belief nationality or age. And, as an equal opportunities employer, the Council strives to employ the best qualified people from a diverse range of applicants.
The RESPECT Allyship Programme is available to all staff, which offers the opportunity to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides added benefits and resources to its members.
