Based in Purfleet, Essex

£34,000 - £38,000 per annum based on skills and experience

Permanent contract

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 Ballet and Opera.

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 facilitates local place-based partnerships in Levelling Up for Culture places offering a range of ROH 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.

This post is one of a pair of part-time Place Partnership Managers responsible for the delivery of the Royal Opera House East programme in targeted places. As a team member, each Place Partnership Manager has specific responsibility for programme development and delivery in the East.

This role will hold relationships and lead activity in Essex, prioritizing Basildon, Castle Point, Harlow and Tendring.

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.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.

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 ROH.

To help place your skills accurately within the ROH East team, this role is similar to a Programme Manager with more focus on relationship management with partners.

The Royal Opera House is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, 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 ROH information pack is attached below. If you have any have questions or access requirements for your application, please contact the ROH Recruitment Team on [email protected]

Closing date for applications: 8am, Monday 11th December 2023

Interviews to be held w/c 18th December 2023.

Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies please.