Overview
Cultural Education Specialist, Curriculum Support & Artsmark (COOF72), ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
To further support children and young people to have equitable access to arts and culture in school, the Cultural Education Network provides a national support offer for teachers, freelance teaching artists and staff from the Creative and Cultural sector. The Cultural Education Network aims to support educators to create more equitable access to Arts and Culture for children and young people. As the Cultural Education Specialist, Curriculum Support & Artsmark, you will directly advise teachers and teaching artists on day-to-day delivery and cross-curricular approaches to embedding arts, culture and creativity in the classroom using the Artsmark Framework. This includes offering support on how to teach with and through the arts, signposting resources, and collaborating with delivery partners. The role conducts outreach to build awareness of the Cultural Education Network and the Artsmark Award, helping to increase registrations and re-registrations. It also includes leadership on special projects and campaigns across both programmes.
Main Day-to-Day Responsibilities
As a member of a team of Cultural Education Specialists, you will:
* Develop professional development opportunities and share advice and best practice with teachers, school leaders and educators from the Arts & Culture sector, including freelance teaching artists.
* Offer advice and support before and during the Artsmark journey, helping to increase registrations and re-registrations.
* Plan and deliver events and webinars, networking and peer learning opportunities, resources and direct one-to-one support for teachers and cultural educators.
* Collaborate with partners, freelancers, delivery agencies and practitioners.
* Help co-create a needs-based and responsive programme.
* Respond to enquiries and understand the support needs of teachers, schools, and the arts and cultural sector in your specialist and regional area.
* Conduct internal and external outreach in the East and/or South East regions to raise awareness and ensure joined-up outputs across regions.
* Lead special projects, campaigns and income-generation initiatives as requested by the Senior Manager, Cultural Education Network.
* Ensure templates, resource materials (videos, podcasts, toolkits, etc.) and guidance are available to schools and educators to respond to programme requirements.
* Represent the organisation at external meetings, seminars and conferences as appropriate.
* Support stakeholder management, liaising with external stakeholders in your geographic region.
* Contribute to ongoing evaluation of impact, keeping data on enquiries up to date and providing reports as required.
* Keep up to date with developments in the cultural education sector and disseminate information to colleagues as required.
* Promote a positive working culture with proactive learning, inclusivity and environmental responsibility, reflecting Nolan Principles of Public Life and Arts Council values.
* Support diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the post’s objectives and activities.
Key Internal Relationships
You will work in a matrixed structure with collaboration across teams, including the Senior Manager, Programme Manager, Programme Co-ordinator and other Cultural Education Specialists. You will liaise with Creativity Collaboratives, Artsmark and other National Children, Young People and Learning team members, as well as external partners and stakeholders, such as Goldsmiths. You will work with ACE teams (Comms, Data & Insights, Procurement, Finance, Information) and with external delivery partners, freelancers, creative agencies, artists and partners.
Essential (Skills, Knowledge And Behaviours)
* Experience delivering curriculum subjects in a classroom setting, preferably across multiple Key Stages.
* Experience teaching arts, culture and/or creativity to children and young people; may include supporting an Artsmark journey and applying specific teaching methods in non-traditional art subjects.
* Experience collaborating across curriculum subjects to embed arts, culture and creativity in schools.
* Experience building external partnerships between schools and external partners, preferably Creative and Cultural organisations, to develop or deliver a project or programme.
* Ability to work on your own initiative and think creatively, with good judgment on when to involve others as part of a matrixed team.
* Strong communication skills to engage individuals and groups and translate sector information for diverse audiences.
* Proficiency with standard IT tools and the ability to learn bespoke systems (e.g., ACE’s CRM) and Agile tools (e.g., Trello; training can be provided).
* Understanding of the Arts Council’s duties as a public body under current diversity legislation and its relationship to the arts.
Desirable (Skills, Knowledge And Behaviours)
* Experience of the Artsmark Award.
* Experience training or advising educators or professionals.
* Experience delivering action learning, mentoring or coaching.
* Experience creating learning resources and tools in creative subjects for various audiences.
* Experience of public programme delivery.
* Experience of co-creation methodologies and/or programme evaluation (qualitative and/or quantitative).
We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the 'Offer an Interview' scheme. Disabled candidates and those with long-term conditions or neurodivergent candidates may be eligible for this scheme. Our Code of Ethics prohibits Arts Council employees from receiving Arts Council funding in various capacities; for more information, talk to the recruiting manager or email recruitment@artscouncil.org.uk.
Interviews will be held virtually on the following dates: 1st window: 30 Sept, 01 and 02 Oct; 2nd window: 09 October PM and all day 10 October.
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