Part-time; 24 hours per week, with some evening and weekend work
Location: Purfleet, Essex (with travel across the UK)
Salary: £34,000 - £37,000 per annum
Permanent contract
Ballet and opera capture the deepest emotions and tell universal stories. The Royal Ballet and Opera wants to share these life-changing artforms, and their power to move and excite, with as many people as we can. Our Learning and Participation (L&P) programme, based at our Covent Garden and Thurrock homes and across England, aims to inspire creativity, offering people of all ages the chance to discover, question and respond to the power of our artforms.
Our L&P programme is distinctive in its scale and ambitions, involving more than 50,000 annual participants across three strands. These are our award-winning, multi-disciplinary National Schools Programme, our talent development work through opera and ballet training networks and participatory events in our Covent Garden home. Our work in the East will facilitate local place-based partnerships in Levelling Up for Culture places offering a range of RBOteacher development programmes and creative interventions for children and young people as well as offering support for cultural education partnerships across Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and North Kent.
The post is one of two part-time Partnership Managers responsible for the delivery of the Royal Ballet and OperaEast programme. As a team member, each Partnership Manager plays an active role in the development of the regional programme, and each has specific responsibility for programme development and delivery in the East. This role will hold relationships and lead activity in Luton and North Kent, prioritizing Gravesham, Medway and Swale.
We would love to hear from you if you have an inclusive and dynamic approach to arts education and can demonstrate the following:
- A track record of project management in an arts, culture or heritage education context and a commitment to advocating the importance of the arts, culture and heritage to children and young people.
- Experience of working strategically to strengthen and sustain opportunities for young people to engage with cultural learning and attracting investment to such work.
- Excellent knowledge of the current arts and cultural education and youth arts context.
- Ability to work effectively with people from a range of backgrounds and professional contexts.
- A commitment to collaborative working, and an understanding of the needs of successful partnership working.
A working knowledge of opera and/or ballet is not a pre-requisite, but we are looking for candidates who demonstrate a firm commitment to widening access to the work of RBO.
The Royal Ballet and Operais committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from those who arefrom a global majority background and/or those who aredisabled,as they are under-represented within our organisation. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential minimum criteria for our vacancies.
A full job description and RBOinformation pack is attached below. If you have any have questions or access requirements for your application, please contact the RBORecruitment Team on hr.recruitment@roh.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Monday 16th September 2024
Interviews to be held w/c 23rd September 2024.
Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies please.
