Job title: Learning Facilitator
Salary: £19.32 p/hr (SCP 26), paid per workshop at £46.30 for a 2.5 hour session
Hours: Casual
Contract: Casual, usually term-time
Location: Leeds Industrial Museum (2 roles), Leeds Discovery Centre (1 role), Lotherton Hall (1 role), Temple Newsam House (1 role) and Leeds Art Gallery (1 role).
We are seeking six dynamic and skilled educators to join our highly successful casual school delivery team at Leeds Industrial Museum (2 roles), Leeds Discovery Centre (1 role), Lotherton Hall (1 role), Temple Newsam House (1 role) and Leeds Art Gallery (1 role). You will deliver an established programme of curriculum-linked interactive workshops to school groups at one of the above venues. Please state which venue you are applying for at the start of your application.
About the venues
Leeds Industrial Museum (LS12) was a woollen processing mill and houses the wider Leeds industrial collections. One of our most popular KS2 workshops is the fully immersive, ‘in role’ Victorian Schoolroom, where the Facilitator takes on the costumed role of a Victorian school teacher and leads the class through the workshop entirely using first person interpretation. Knowledge of the Industrial Revolution and Victorian periods and a love of acting would be helpful.
Leeds Discovery Centre (LS10) is our accessible museum store where we house around 1 million objects. The KS2 school workshops focus on ancient civilisations (Egypt and Prehistory) and natural science (Rocks and Fossils, Adaptations). Group management skills are useful as every school group has a store tour within the workshop. There is the possibility of workshop delivery in schools (outreach) with this role.
Lotherton Hall (LS25) was the home of the Gascoigne family. The most popular workshop is a KS2 Second World War evacuation role play, where the Facilitator takes on the costumed role of the Housekeeper and leads the class through the workshop in role. Knowledge of early twentieth century history, a love of role play would be helpful, and access to a car would be helpful (there is little public transport to the Lotherton estate).
Temple Newsam House is a Tudor manor house which has been changed by every generation. Key workshops include fairytales for Early Years and KS1, and Dress to Impress for KS2, which is inspired by the portraits and Tudor history of the house, and KS3/4 History workshops. Knowledge of Tudor history would be helpful.
Leeds Art Gallery has a collection of Victorian artworks and a changing contemporary art exhibition programme. Key workshop delivery includes art practice, and this role will have a focus on drawing using artworks as inspiration, so confidence with art is essential.
About you
As the Learning Facilitator, you will be:
1. A skilled facilitator able to work with different ages of pupils from school settings.
2. Highly organised and be able to juggle the practicalities, differentiation and accessible requirements of a group visit to a museum
3. Able to work colleagues from the venue team and the Learning and Access Officer
4. Curious, responsive and adaptable to existing and new audience needs and interests.
About the role
As the Learning Facilitators you will deliver the popular KS1-4 school workshops at Leeds Industrial Museum (2 roles), Leeds Discovery Centre (1 role), Lotherton Hall (1 role), Temple Newsam House (1 role), or Leeds Art Gallery. The workshops are high quality, creative, differentiated and accessible, collection and exhibition focused and interactive. You will set up the workshop, meet and greet the school group, lead the group through a child-centred 1.5– 2 hr workshop (teaching to the workshop plan developed by the Learning and Access Officer, whilst being responsive to the children and teacher’s needs), give out evaluation forms to the teachers and students, close down the activity and pack away. You will be qualified to degree-level, or similar vocational qualification, with hands-on teaching or museums experience. We provide full training on workshop content, venue collections, Health and Safety and Safeguarding.
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.