CASUAL EDUCATION ENABLER - FAMILIES

Salary details: £28624 - £28624

Job Title: Casual Education Enabler - Family Events

Location: Ferens Art Gallery / Hull Museums

Job Type: Casual

Salary:  Grade 6 equivalent

Join Hull Museums to help deliver our Family Events programming!

Are you passionate about providing fun and engaging opportunities for families to engage with history, art, and heritage? At Hull Museums, we are looking for a team of enthusiastic individuals to help develop and deliver our families and under 5s programme across seven of our unique sites, which cover everything from transport history, to archaeology, art, and Hull’s maritime heritage.

About the role

As a Family Events Enabler you will play a vital role in engaging families with our world-class collections and bringing history to life for them. You’ll be working closely with the Family Learning Officer, and fellow Family Events enablers, to develop and deliver exciting programmes of school holiday activities and regular term-time under 5s programming across our sites. You will also make a key contribution to our large summer and winter event weekends which bring in thousands of visitors each year.

In doing this, you’ll be helping to inspire a younger generation, providing them with new skills and experiences and memories they will take with them and treasure. You will be joining Hull Museums at a very exciting time, as we look forward to the opening of our newly redeveloped Maritime sites and welcoming families to them. This includes the beautifully renovated Hull Maritime Museum and the newly restored Arctic Corsair fishing trawler at the North End Shipyard.

Please note that this role will involve weekend working and working during school holiday periods, as these are the times when we run most of our families programming.

Key Responsibilities:

• To help develop, deliver, and evaluate exciting activities for families and under 5s, inspired by our museum collections, including:
• Drop-in arts and craft workshops
• Storytelling and sensory play sessions
• Living history characters
• Tours
• To develop, deliver and evaluate SEND workshops for families with children with special educational needs and disabilities.
• To work collaboratively with the Family Learning Officer, the wider Enabler team, and where applicable, guest artists and community groups, when developing and delivering this programming.
• To assist the Family Learning Officer with the development and delivery of the large- scale family event weekends.
• To brief volunteers as required to assist with delivering sessions.
• To provide training to staff and volunteers on delivering your developed activities as needed.
• To help manage, maintain, and condition check session resources.
• To help ensure the health and safety of the general public, fellow staff, volunteers and partners when delivering sessions.
• To provide written reports and case studies about the programming you are delivering, when required, for our funders.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience of working with children of different ages, including children under 5.
• Experience of developing activities specifically for families or children.
• Experience of working with D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent children is desirable.
• An individual who is welcoming with excellent customer service skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a wide range of ages and learning styles.
• A strong commitment to safeguarding and ensuring health and safety.
• An individual who is flexible, organised, able to think on their feet and respond to things quickly.
• A commitment to making activities accessible and welcoming for all.
• Someone who is self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Flexibility with your working pattern - as mentioned, this role will involve weekend working and working during school holiday periods, as these are the times when we run most of our families programming.