Learning and Access Officer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Temporary until 31/01/2025

As the Learning and Access Officer (Membership) at Leeds Discovery Centre you'll thrive on making museum collections accessible to all.

Can you come up with a participatory activity to find out what a stuffed cheetah might be thinking with a class of schoolchildren? Can you talk to senior school leaders confidently about their curriculums and link this to museum collections? Can you develop loans boxes of accessioned objects and manage a school membership scheme?

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

About you
As the Learning and Access Officer at Leeds City Museum, you will be:

A skilled facilitator and be able to develop, deliver and evaluate differentiated, accessible workshops, programmes and resources (including digital) for schools, families, adults and communities.
A confident communicator with a strong knowledge of the primary National Curriculum and have experience of objectbased learning
Highly organised and be able to juggle the practicalities of group visits, events and multiple conflicting audiences.
Able to work with the venue team, and wider Learning and Access, Collections and Commercial teams, and the wider public, to develop innovative programmes and interpretation.
Curious, responsive and adaptable to existing and new audience needs and interests.

About the role

As the Learning and Access Officer (Membership) you will develop, administer, deliver and evaluate the Leeds Museums and Galleries school membership scheme, including loans boxes into schools, teacher CPD and whole school curriculum planning.

You will lead high quality; differentiated and accessible, collection focused learning and interpretative programmes for audiences at the Discovery Centre and on outreach into targeted schools, and be responsible for income generation.

You will supervise volunteers and casual delivery staff and collaborate with colleagues on site and across the service to build on the existing learning programmes.

You will be qualified to degree-level, or similar vocational qualification, with hands-on teaching or museums experience.

The role is integral to our Leeds Discovery Centre and Learning and Access teams. Learning is at the heart of Leeds Museums and Galleries. We welcome, inspire and engage diverse audiences with collections and exhibitions and enable people to build their own interpretations. We are a strong Learning and Access team, who are leaders in the field of museum and gallery learning. We develop innovative ways of celebrating material culture using object and artwork learning and robust, research orientated practices.

As a team, we focus on the three C's:
Curiosity, Creativity and Conversation.

What we offer you
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays

- membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

How to apply

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds. Leeds City Council is ranked 70 on the Stonewall Equality Index 2023. We are also an age-friendly employer, a Mindful Employer and a Disability Confident Leader.

This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.

Job description

Job Purpose

Leeds Museums and Galleries is the largest local authority museum service in the country with 1.3 million objects, and over 1.4 million visitors per year to the nine museum and gallery venues across Leeds.

Our reach is local, regional, national and international.

Learning is at the heart of Leeds Museums and Galleries. We welcome, inspire and engage diverse audiences with collections and exhibitions and enable people to build their own interpretations. We are a strong Learning and Access team, who are leaders in the field of museum and gallery learning. We develop innovative ways of celebrating material culture using object and artwork learning and robust, research orientated practices.

As a team, we focus on the three C's:
Curiosity, Creativity and Conversation.

The Learning and Access Officer (Membership) develops, administers, delivers and evaluates the Leeds Mu