Schools Engagement Officer

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Trust is looking for a passionate and ambitious Schools Engagement Officer. This is a key role in the Engagement team to support, and oversee delivery of the Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery schools’ programme, ideal for someone working in the fields of education, learning, and/or community programming.

Pitzhanger Manor is the Grade 1 listed ‘country’ home of renowned British architect, Sir John Soane, designed and built by Soane 1800-1804 in what was then rural Ealing, West London. Pitzhanger reopened to the public in 2019 following an award-winning £12m HLF and ACE-supported conservation project to restore Soane’s original design and upgrade the adjacent Gallery so it now stages ambitious and acclaimed contemporary exhibitions ranging from Anish Kapoor and Es Devlin to Grayson Perry. Reopened post COVID with an exciting and diverse programme of exhibitions, events and outreach, the team are setting ambitious targets to extend and develop Pitzhanger’s audience.

The Pitzhanger team is small and entrepreneurial with very high ambitions: it is passionate about heritage and the arts and developing Pitzhanger into a thriving and sustainable venue that has really positive impact within its communities.  The successful candidate will play a key role in enabling Pitzhanger to achieve its objectives to reach new, diverse audiences and deliver really valuable learning and outreach programmes.

The Engagement team is responsible for the development, organisation, and facilitation of schools and families programmes at Pitzhanger. The Schools Engagement Officer will be responsible for overseeing the development and expansion of our schools programme, both in terms of improving our offerings to local schools as well as to broadening the reach of our programme to meet the needs of more schools in every part of the borough.

The Schools Engagement Officer will be the key point of contact with teachers and administrators in Ealing schools. They will seek to build new relationships with schools across the borough, while working to maintain and build on our existing relationships. They will do this by delivering programmes created with awareness of how cultural learning and creativity compliments the National Curriculum, and which celebrate and enhance children’s and young people’s creative and cultural lives.

If you would like to arrange an informal telephone conversation with the Learning and Engagement Manager to find out more about the role please contact Morvi at [email protected].  Please also see the: Schools-Engagement-Officer-JD.pdf

To apply, please send your CV plus a covering letter (max. 2 sides A4), or a video no longer than 4 minutes, summarising how your skills and experience meet the job description and person specification to [email protected].

Deadline: Monday 14 October 2024 at 12pm. Interviews of selected candidates will take place in Ealing, London W5 on Monday 21 October 2024.

We try to answer all applications, however If you have not heard from us within 6 weeks of your application, then we regret that you should assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.