Education Communicator

2 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom We The Curious Full time

**Location**:Venue-based - most of your time will be spent in our venue on Bristol Harbourside interacting directly with visitors

**Department**: Programming

**Report to**:Education Manager

**Salary**:£25,865 per annum (£20,692 pro rata)

**Contract**:Fixed term, 14 months

**Working hours**: Part-time, 30 hours a week 9-5 Tuesday - Friday (0.8 FTE)

**About We The Curious**

We The Curious is an educational charity and South West England's leading science centre.

We produce experiences that bring people together to play, get creative with science and explore different ideas.

We work with partners, locally and nationally, supporting people to be inquisitive, develop new skills and improve their wellbeing.

We are progressive, inquisitive, collaborative, playful and creative.

**Our mission**

Our aim is to connect and empower people through sharing creative experiences which celebrate unknowns in science.

Our work as a charity is driven by five key pledges:

- Cultivate Curiosity
- Include Everyone
- Open Up Science
- Sustainable Futures
- Build Resilience

You can find out more about these in our Manifesto.

**About the role**

If you love science and education and want to share your ability, enthusiasm and experience, this exciting opportunity to join our Education team may be for you.

We The Curious welcomes over 70,000 school visitors a year - offering two floors of hands-on science experience along with our broad Education program of Workshops, Shows and Theme Days.

As Education Communicator you will be part of the team responsible for designing and delivering the Education programme of We The Curious, focusing mainly on a school audience but including other audience groups too.

**What will you do in this role?**

**Role specific responsibilities**
- Presenting the Education programme to school and other groups. This includes classroom and laboratory Workshops, Studio Shows and Theme Days on Science based topics that cover all age groups.
- Work with the Education Manager to maintain existing and create new Education programming.
- Preparing and maintaining high quality delivery spaces, equipment and resources.
- Collecting and analysing feedback from visitors to continually improve the Education programme.
- Working with volunteers to coordinate and facilitate their support in the delivery of the Education programme.
- Working with other teams where appropriate to deliver special projects such as working with new audiences, new techniques and external organisations.

**What will you do in this role?**

**General responsibilities**
- Embody and demonstrate our values; Collaborative, Creative, Inquisitive, Playful, Progressive.
- Safeguarding - Responsible for carefully following safeguarding policies and procedures and raising any concerns to manager/Designated Safeguarding Officer.
- Fundraising - Promote charity messaging across your area of work wherever possible, with support from the Development and Marketing teams.
- General responsibility for departmental compliance with GDPR.
- Due to the responsibilities of this role, you will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

**What we're looking for from you**
- A strong foundation of knowledge in the topics covered within the Primary and Secondary Science curriculums and some knowledge or experience of post-16 Science curriculum areas.
- Experience of successfully engaging with under-18 audiences, particularly schools.
- Experience of facilitating learning. This could be in a range of different environments such as laboratories, classrooms, exhibitions or outside spaces.
- An understanding of the school environment and some familiarity with the Primary and/or Secondary Science curriculums.
- An understanding of and enthusiasm for how and why learning happens.
- Experience of creating innovative and successful learning activities.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Ability to engage and question a range of audiences appropriately.
- Great team player and collaborator, but also able to work independently and problem solve.

**Application process**

**Interview date(s) and location**: 22nd & 23rd June 2023 at Temple Quay, Bristol

**Start date**: 1st September 2023

Please don’t send a CV or covering letter as we will not review them.

We appreciate interviews can be stressful, so if you are invited for interview, we’ll send you the interview questions that you’ll be asked beforehand so you have time to prepare.

If you have any particular needs or requirements, please do let us know so we are able to make the required adjustments.

**Support during the process**

We want to work with you to ensure the recruitment process is accessible for you.

If you are disabled, neurodivergent, or if you have a long-term health condition, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.

Examples of adjustments could include:

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