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Are you passionate about learning and enthusiastic about culture? Are you excited about the part museums can play in enriching peoples’ lives? Are you a friendly and energetic team member who can communicate and collaborate effectively? If so Derby Museums wants to hear from you!

Derby Museums is a charitable trust, managing Derby’s three museums with extensive and world renowned collections. Derby Museums is for the thinker and maker in all of us. Derby Museums utilises its unique cultural heritage, enlightenment thinking and the city’s stories of innovation and making, to engage all ages in our learning and activity programmes. Our programmes drive creativity; unlock and realise peoples’ potential, support the development of 21st century skills relevant to learning, work and society, enabling a place where people of all ages can think, feel and do.

The Role

Derby Museums is looking for an energetic and proactive programmer with experience of working with families, children and young people and a strong sense of the role that culture, heritage and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) can play in the development of children and young peoples’ skills, capacities, and wellbeing.

With an emphasis on co-producing and facilitating learning experiences which engage the head, heart and hands, this role is pivotal in developing and delivering family and young peoples’ learning programmes which involve and engage diverse audiences, enriching the content and relevance of our programmes.

The role includes but is not limited to;

This role is based at the Museum of Making, but you will be required to work at any of our museums as well as offsite.

The Person

You will have a passion for and have experience of working with children, families, and young people with a strong belief in your ability to make a positive impact. You will be an experienced collaborator with great ideas and a good understanding of cultural learning and STEAM. You will be an excellent communicator, who is highly organised with the ability to engage and work effectively with a wide range of people and who is able to respond to challenges whilst working efficiently to tight deadlines. You will be enthusiastic about the potential of pushing boundaries, using new approaches and able to utilise opportunities to co-produce, plan and deliver exciting and meaningful learning experiences.

We believe that diversity and equality within our workplace, programmes, and in our outlook is crucial. We therefore particularly welcome applications from candidates that are under-represented at Derby Museums and within the heritage sector, including black and minority ethnic candidates and/or candidates with a disability

Employee Benefits: 20 days + bank holidays (pro rata), Flexible working, pension, mileage allowance payable on authorised business travel.