£40,500 per annum

Permanent Contract

Full-time, 40 hours per week (5 out of 7 days)

Ballet and opera capture the deepest emotions and tell universal stories. The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) 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 1500 schools and 100,000 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 facilitates local place-based partnerships in Levelling Up for Culture places offering a range of RBO teacher 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.

We are looking for a National Schools Partnerships Manager to drive forward our core programmes with schools Create and Sing, Create and Dance and Create and Design. By working through partnerships with groups of schools and in particular geographical areas, in collaboration with our marketing team you will scale up our National Schools Programme`s to achieve ambitious growth targets.

We would love to hear from you if you have an inclusive and dynamic approach to arts education and can demonstrate the following:

• Substantial experience working as a leader in the education/cultural sector and evidence of making impact and demonstrating understanding of good practice in the teaching and learning of arts in schools particularly music and/or dance.
• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence, inspire and motivate.
• Comprehensive understanding of the education sector and experience of working with schools.
• Outstanding people and relationship skills with proven ability to broker complex partnerships with multiple stakeholders across sectors.
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills and fluent in English.
• A passion for and some knowledge of opera and/or ballet and commitment to widening access to the work of RBO.

The Royal Ballet and Opera is 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 is attached below. If you have any access requirements for your application, please contact the RBO Recruitment Team on hr.recruitment@rbo.org.uk

Closing date for applications: 8.00 am, Friday 27^th September 2024

Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK.

No agencies.