Community Learning Officer - Beaulieu, United Kingdom - National Motor Museum Trust

Description

About us

The National Motor Museum are launching a new project, 'My Generation', that aims to engage and involve underrepresented audiences with our collections through high quality, collaborative public programming and co-curation.

We pride ourselves on delivering learning content that is engaging and interactive in a way that only our collections can provide.

Through My Generation we are investing in new audiences to assist us in broadening the appeal of our new permanent gallery 'The Ages of Motoring'.

Collaborating across different networks within the local community over a two-year project we will be exploring themes that are relevant to audiences today and working with Collections Team colleagues to address gaps in representation within the collections.

You will need to be able to engage and connect with audiences of varying ages, backgrounds and abilities and be an advocate for opportunities for all at the National Motor Museum.

My Generation is supported by funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is a two year fixed term contract until 31st March 2026.

Main Duties:


Community Engagement (informal Learning)
Work with the Head of Learning to help develop and deliver a range of engaging workshops, outreach activities and long term engagement experiences for targeted groups in our local community aligned to the National Motor Museum strategy and Learning policy

• Manage a programme of in kind support for community groups including events, workshops and delivery of an annual programme of community visits to the National Motor Museum. Liaise directly with our community partners across Hampshire to coordinate visits, outreach sessions or other workshops
• Identify community partner groups, build a strong network for the National Motor Museum within the local community and develop mutually beneficial relationships with multiple groups that help to support the work they do
• Build sustainable relationships with local residents; equipping people with the skills and confidence to initiate and run communityled activities and projects linked to My Generation and the story of motoring; facilitating dialogue and collaboration between local residents, service providers and the National Motor Museum; working alongside the Exhibition Development Team to enable local residents to play an active role in decisions affecting the interpretation of the community curated areas of The Ages of Motoring; promoting inclusion and the active participation of all segments of the local population
• Raise the profile of the National Motor Museum as a community partner with local charities, residents and other stakeholders

Museum Outreach (formal Learning)

• Support the Head of Learning and the Learning Officer in the delivery and management of the Outreach Learning programmes
• Working with our small and focussed team, develop and deliver a new programme of talks, activities and workshops around our collections and in response to the themes within 'The Ages of Motoring'; help create and disseminate educational resources for use in schools or with families and special interest groups
• Assist the Learning Officer to liaise with schools, colleges and teachers to promote the use of the collections and activities of the National Motor Museum to support the national curriculum
• To run high quality handson education sessions, using the handling or loan box collection, for school groups from nursery to key stage 4, across all the collection themes. May also include some Key Stage 5, FE college and University groups.
• Deliver collections based talks, workshops and activities in schools, colleges and universities either solo or in partnership with storytellers, craftspeople and artists

Volunteers

• Organise and manage the work of Learning and community volunteers as and when needed.
• To facilitate the training of Learning and community volunteers, in liaison with the Volunteer Coordinator.

Other

• The role will require a full DBS clearance the results of which must be satisfactory to the National Motor Museum
• The roll will require a full, clean driving licence

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent work place experience

Experience

• Experience in the charity/voluntary sector
• Experience of Museums and Learning programming or similar organisations such as place based giving, health and wellbeing, homelessness or corporate foundations
• Effective at forming partnerships with voluntary sector organisations
• Skilled at developing new programmes or reviewing and updating processes
• Experience of the Microsoft office Suite to intermediate level
• Familiar with nonexecutive trustee boards or similar governance
• Knowledge about monitoring and impact reporting processes
• Able to facilitate workshops, events or lectures
• An understanding of the principles of assetbased community development and other participatory approaches to community development
• Demonstrable experien