Head of Learning and Engagement - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £34,980.

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2025

Closing date: 2nd June 2024


This role is also open as an internal secondment opportunity which would need to be agreed by your current line manager.


Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.


The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.


We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.


We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.


Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.


The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham


Background

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
The Barber is home to the principal art gallery, collection and original concert hall for the University of Birmingham.

Our mission is directed by the vision of our founder, Lady Barber, who established a museum for "the study and encouragement of art and music" with an art collection that was to be "of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery or the Wallace Collection".

Today, its internationally significant collection - cared for in a Grade-1 listed Art Deco building - includes masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, Gwen John, Käthe Kollwitz, René Magritte, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, JMW Turner, Vincent van Gogh and Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun - among others.

Our programme centres on world-class, research-focused temporary loan exhibitions and ground breaking Learning and Engagement activities and projects.


Our vision is for the Barber to be a welcoming and responsive museum, whose collections and innovative art and music programmes inspire creativity and curiosity.

The Barber also strives to manifest Lady Barber's vision of a hub for the social life of the University - a space that can connect people - and our mission today extends beyond the campus to local, national and international communities.


You can read more about our mission and purpose, our vision and our values, on our website
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About the Team


Learning & Engagement is at the heart of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, delivering on the Barber Institute's mission to engage people with the arts and music.


The Learning & Engagement (L&E) team designs, organises and delivers the
L&E programme for the Barber's audiences and implements policies that support engagement with our collections and exhibitions.

Through our L&E programmes the Barber aims to enhance learning, facilitate the big conversations and change lives.


The programme continues to grow and evolve - for example, in 2019 the team launched Barber Lates, a programme of cross-disciplinary, experimental evening events designed to attract new audiences to the Barber.

In response to the Covid lockdown and closure of the Barber's physical building the team launched the innovative digital programme
Barber Home in April 2020.

Since then the team have built an experimental and creative programme that responds to the experiences of the past few years,
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