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Join the dynamic Learning and Engagement Team at V&A East to inspire creativity among youth in East London
Overview
Salary £33764 - £36000
Location Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
Expires Expires at anytime
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is renowned as the world's leading museum of art, design, and performance, featuring a vast collection that spans 5,000 years of human creativity. Situated in the heart of East London, V&A East is dedicated to fostering creativity and nurturing the next generation of creative talent through its innovative programmes, particularly focused on serving the youth of the area.
Role Summary:
- Lead the flagship programmes for young people including the V&A East Youth Collective.
- Design and implement creative projects and programmes emphasizing practical making and conversation to combat inequity in the creative sector.
- Collaborate with local youth, creative professionals, and partner institutions to develop impactful initiatives.
- Work across V&A departments to maximize the outreach and effectiveness of the programmes.
Role Requirements:
- Experience in developing and leading youth-focused programmes.
- Strong collaborative skills to work with a range of partners and stakeholders.
- Commitment to addressing inequity within the creative sector.
- Capability to integrate various departmental efforts, including Marketing, Digital, and Communications.
Benefits:
- Generous pension scheme and 29 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional development.
- Discounted tickets to V&A exhibitions, and discounts in V&A shops.
- Comprehensive support programmes, including financial loans for transport and rental deposits, bicycle loans, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
The Learning and Engagement team at V&A East plays a vital role in ensuring that V&A East inspires creativity and opens opportunities for our priority audience of young people in east London. This role will lead our flagship programmes for young people including the V&A East Youth Collective. They will devise and deliver projects and programmes with a focus on creativity, practical making, ideas and conversation. The programme seeks to address inequity within the creative sector and to unlock creativity as a skill in all areas of life.
Everything we do is informed by the needs of young people and their communities in east London. This role will devise and deliver programmes and projects in collaboration with young people, creative practitioners, services and organisations throughout east London as well as the East Bank partners (University of the Arts, London, BBC, Sadlers Wells and University City of London).
The role is based within the V&A East team but will work across the wider V&A organisation to ensure our work has maximum impact. They will work with departments such as Marketing, Digital and Communications and Collections, Care and Access.
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
Benefits include a generous pension scheme, 29 days plus bank holidays, flexible working, tickets to V&A exhibitions, subsidised staff canteen, 25% discount in V&A shops, Give as you earn scheme, Bicycle loan, Interest-free season ticket, Interest-free rental deposit loan, Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike, Wide range of training and professional development opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff diversity networks.
