Learning Project Officer

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Key Information

Job Title:  Learning Project Officer (Primary School)

Salary:  £33,600.00   

Band 2

Contract:  12M FTC / Part Time (2 days a week Mon to Weds) / Plus Hybrid

Location: LTM 20 Cranbourn Street, London, WC2H 7AA

Hybrid working, within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Application closing date: Monday 24th November @ 23:59

About London Transport Museum (LTM)

Based in Covent Garden, we are the world’s leading museum of urban transport and an award-winning day out. But that’s just part of our story. We are passionate. We are curious. We are adventurous.

As a heritage and education charity, we reach every primary school in the capital to fire the imaginations of tomorrow’s engineers, designers, scientists, and arts enthusiasts. With business partners and industry decision-makers, we tackle the topics that matter to London, from smart cities to green innovation.

We want to close skills gaps, redress gender imbalances and create opportunities for under-represented and disadvantaged communities.

We want to ignite curiosity to shape the future.

At LTM we welcome children, young people and adults at risk as Museum visitors and through engagement projects. We take safeguarding our visitors seriously and ensure all our staff and volunteers are DBS checked, regularly trained, and feel confident following our thorough safeguarding procedures. At LTM, safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.

Overview of role

The post holder will manage the delivery of the primary schools programme covering EYFS, KS1 & 2, including activities connecting across the full breadth of the curriculum, and a current emphasis on STEAM subjects. This includes workshops at the museum and the depot, outreach sessions, virtual sessions and activities for SEN schools. The post holder will work closely with the Learning Officer: Secondary Schools and the Learning Assistant and alongside the Adult and Family and Young Peoples Skills and Community teams at the Museum. The post holder will be accountable for embedding best practice in museum education, training and supporting a team of freelancers and actors to deliver our programme. The post holder will work in a dynamic team of Learning staff to extend the reputation of the department internally and externally driving forward the Schools programme at LTM.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage freelancers, actors and volunteers to deliver the programmes as needed
• Develop a programme that links to the wider work of the museum, ensuring that it is visible to and valued by staff and other audiences, reporting and celebrating its success as appropriate
• Build strong relationships across our two sites in Covent Garden and Acton Depot with a diverse group of stakeholders, including schools, other LTM departments, funders and Transport for London
• Ensure that young people have a range of opportunities to be involved with LTM and that all work seeks to build lifelong relationships and future visitors
• Develop and enable delivery of specially funded projects
• Work closely with key internal stakeholders – particularly Operations and Visitor Services teams – to ensure that the schools programme is visible, valued and integrated with the wider work of the Museum
• Using the team’s Theory of Change evaluation framework, to consistently evaluate and measure impact of the schools programme to inform its on-going development

Skills

Essential

• Effective interpersonal skills to engage and work with a range of stakeholders in a clear and confident manner. Exceptional ability to build personal and organisational relationships at all levels
• Strong organisational skills: a proven ability to work on own initiative and in a team, to prioritise and manage own time and that of others to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills: the ability to effectively represent the Museum through formal presentations, one-to-one meetings, written proposals, reports and promotional copywriting
• Demonstrable flexibility in approach to work; able to adjust plans as necessary to meet overall ambitions of the Learning team and the Museum

Desirable

• Ability to successfully articulate, plan and deliver a coherent programme of varied projects

Knowledge

Essential

• Proven knowledge of learning in museums, and passionate about engagement and participation best practice
• Proven knowledge of working with a range of learners, including SEN audiences
• Proven knowledge of the requirements of delivering and evaluating successful projects
• Proven knowledge of working alongside schools to deliver a learning programme
• Computer literate with experience in the use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable

• A good working knowledge of Transport for London’s services and the history of public transport in London or demonstrably prepared to acquire this

Experience

Essential

• Experience of running engaging learning workshops in a heritage or other education setting
• Experience of successfully managing, recruiting and training people, particularly freelancers and volunteers
• Experience of best practice of data collection & evidencing impact
• Experience of successful working in diverse teams

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process 

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV.

Word format preferred and please do not include any photographs or images.

The closing date for applications is Monday 24th November @ 23:59

TfL is currently unable to provide sponsorship to candidates for this role as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria for sponsorship will not be met. TfL keeps its approach under review in line with changes to UK immigration rules. We are also unable to provide advice or guidance on individual immigration queries and advise candidates to check the Government’s website for further information.  

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.