Community / Learning Officer – Mary Rose Museum

Job Title: Community / Learning Officer
Salary: £21,029
Hours: 18.5 hours per week (over 3 days)
Term: Fixed Term until 28 February 2025
Location: Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, PO1 3PY
Closing date: 12:00 am 27 July 2023

This is a key role for the Mary Rose Trust, where you will be helping to deliver our Community and Learning initiatives. You will have a keen eye for learning and community excellence, to ensure that we provide the best possible learning environment, that not only informs but inspires future generations about the Mary Rose, her crew and artefacts and Tudor history.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Delivering workshops to schools and community groups
  • Developing the learning programme, with a specific focus on history and STEM
  • Building relationships with community partners
  • Training and monitoring the extended Learning Team
  • Working with the Marketing Department to promote workshops and education visits, including social media, informing website updates
  • Act as liaison with teachers and community partners and support booking and timetabling for Learning Department
  • Delivering virtual and outreach activity
  • Running special events e.g. home educators, EBP
  • Resource management e.g. purchasing and fixing costumes, and finance duties
  • Representation of Mary Rose Trust regionally and locally
  • Delivering and reporting on special projects

Key skills and experience:

  • Experience in a learning/school support role
  • Experience in creating learning materials, workshops and/or community projects
  • Administration
  • Excellent people skills with the ability to build good working relationships
  • Ability to manage internal and external correspondence
  • Excellent organisational, IT, administrative, written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-motivated and able to work flexibly in order to incorporate changing work priorities
  • Ability to juggle multiple priorities calmly and effectively

Applications should be submitted to Pippa Bostock, Director of Development, Engagement and Marketing via email ([email protected]) by the 27 July 2023.

Applications should include:

  • A comprehensive CV
  • A supporting statement, explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role

For an informal and confidential discussion about the role, please contact Pippa Bostock via email ([email protected]).