Education & Access Officer

**Education &**

**Access Officer**

**Hours**:16 hours per week**

**Location**:Border Textile Towerhouse**

**Closing Date**: **29th February 2024**

**Job Ref No**: **0794**

**Salary**: **Grade 6 £13.65 - £14.75**

**(£26,337 - £28,459)**
- Job advert
- Introduction to Live Borders
- Our Strategic Vision
- Our Values
- Job Description and Person Specification
- Conditions of Employment

**Job Advert**

**We have a fantastic opportunity for an Education and Outreach Officer to join Live Borders**

**Museums, Galleries and Archives Team. This post will be based in Hawick with scope for limited**

**home working. Ability to work with colleagues covering museums in Hawick/Jedburgh primarily,**

**and deliver activities suitable for delivery at other sites across the Borders area will be important.**

**Your role is to bring out the full learning potential of our museums, collections, archives/data and**

**exhibitions. You will work to Live Borders strategic priorities to maximise participation, develop**

**partnerships, contribute to cultural sector and education initiatives and work in collaboration with**

**colleagues including external/peer networks. Key activities will include input to planning 2024-25**

**education/family learning/activity programmes. You will collaborate on facilitating schools access to**

**our museums/galleries/archives and collections based learning resources. Other key tasks require**

**skills in identifying income generation/grant opportunities and ability to build links with community**

**partners to provide health and wellbeing benefits.**

**To achieve success in this role you will be educated to degree level or equivalent, with a proven**

**track record of working within cultural/heritage learning settings. You will be a creative thinker and**

**confident in facilitating activities with schools/community groups, preferably with experience of**

**developing activities linked to formal education and learning outcomes. You will need exemplary**

**time management, inter-personal and public speaking skills. Team working is also important,**

**including ability to build effective relationships with colleagues, communities, schools and groups**

**involving diverse ages, abilities and learning styles. Project management and IT skills will be**

**advantageous for delivering, monitoring and reporting on digital engagement activities and**

**presenting outcomes from learning projects to funders/stakeholders.**

**JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Job Purpose**:
Responsible for bringing out the full learning and access potential of the museums & galleries, collections, data, digital content and exhibitions/activities focusing on Hawick and Jedburgh areas.

**Responsibilities**:
1. Design, identify, produce and test sustainable new learning resources for formal and informal learning in museum displays. Develop learning resources which support the principles and purposes of the Curriculum for Excellence and maximize public access to museum collections and loan material.

2. Develop learning & access resources in line with Museums Access and Inclusion
Policy: including devising projects for schools & colleges, assisting with digital learning/virtual gallery content, and liaising with community groups to support their participation in our museums learning activities and development of collections based learning in the wider community.

3. Devise formal and informal learning events programmes within our museums and venues, and contribute to approved joint learning activities as part of an outreach programme.

4. Promote and digitally market learning opportunities in liaison with the Curator, in order to build links with new and existing audiences and support social media promotions of lifelong learning activities. Be the main link for liaison between museums and education organisations, industry or community groups in relation to relevant project activities.

5. Support the development of effective links and partnerships with other service providers and stakeholders in the museum service, creative learning and colleagues in The Archive section and Heart of Hawick, so as to provide a seamless service to the public and to maximize public access through developing lifelong learning and social inclusion access projects.

6. Demonstrate effective knowledge and skills required for working with Museums,
Galleries and Archive Service collections and loan collections - including handling and lifting skills and awareness of appropriate collections care, conservation, interpretation, digital and display techniques in learning environments.

7. Assist with provision of training and resources for museums & archives education activities in support of staff such as Museum & Galleries Assistant, Archives
Assistants, Information & Engagement Assistants, Volunteers and Project Workers.

8. Ensure that projects coordinate effectively with other local and national initiatives.
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