Education and Production Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for an Education and Production Officer to join our team based in Central
London. After several years of research and development, we have recently launched Testimony 360 , a brandnew
digital programme for UK secondary schools that uses interactive survivor testimony and virtual reality to
innovatively teach about the Holocaust. Through the programme, students can have a personal and
conversational experience with a recording of a Holocaust survivor before seeing some of the sites they
experienced for themselves using virtual reality headsets, all without leaving their classroom.

The successful candidate will serve as a member of the Trust's Testimony 360 Team, responsible for
the digital post-production and testing of interactive recorded testimony to ensure its fluency and
usability in the classroom. We are looking for an individual with confident IT skills and the ability to
quickly learn how to use new technologies and programmes. As an expert in Holocaust education, you
will also contribute to the successful delivery of our Testimony 360 programme through weekly inperson
school visits during term time or as required.

Responsibilities

Post-Production, interactive survivor testimony

• Lead on the development (post-production) of interactive testimony, including clipping, annotation,

data/metadata input, and Alpha/Beta testing. Throughout testing, leading the training process which
ensures the system's accuracy.

• Maintain regular contact with our partner organisation, the USC Shoah Foundation, including

progress updates, shared learning, required training.

• Support colleagues undertaking training and/or working on supportive post-production.


• Logging activity and decisions regarding the post-production editing process, as discussed with

members of the Testimony 360 team and/or USC Shoah Foundation.

• Organise and deliver Alpha and Beta testing stages, working directly with students both online and

in-person to deliver test sessions and action necessary follow up (to ensure learning from test
sessions is fed back).

Delivery

• Contribute to delivery of Testimony 360 through regular, in-person school delivery as part of the wider

team, ensuring that the programme is delivered through a robust pedagogical approach. Expected to
deliver Testimony 360 one every two weeks throughout term time.

• Plan and deliver Beta testing sessions as part of the development of the interactive testimonies,

sharing knowledge and expertise with other Education Officers supporting in this delivery.

• The successful applicant may also be expected to deliver educational sessions to students, teachers

and our young Ambassadors outside the Testimony 360 programme and throughout the year. Inperson
sessions will take place in the UK and sometimes abroad.,
• We expect all members of the Education team to share their learnings and expertise both internally

and externally. This role will require discussions about our learnings from Testimony 360 with the wider
Education team, and we encourage consideration for how these learnings might feed into our wider
educational offer.

• As an educational charity, we must ensure that education about the Holocaust is the core of all work.

To this end, members of the Education Team are responsible for supporting the wider teams as they
develop, plan and deliver on broader public engagement, fundraising, and awareness-raising
initiatives.

• You will also be required to carry out any other reasonable request by the Director of Programmes,

Chief Executive, or Senior Management Team.


• An understanding of the history of the Holocaust and its relevance today, evidenced through previous

study or work history.

• Experience in teaching the Holocaust within schools, and evidence of CPD/training on pedagogical

approaches to Holocaust education highly desirable.

• An understanding of testimony, its value in education, and an insight and understanding into best

practice in producing and using recorded testimonies.

• High levels of IT competency with confidence to engage with training and ability to learn to use new

programmes quickly.

• Experience of planning and delivering lessons as part of a formal or informal educational setting.


• Ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment and to tight timeframes.


• Ability to work independently with demonstrable self-motivation.


• Strong communication skills, able to work effectively across a team and across organisations.


• Vibrant, enthusiastic, and dependable individual, with a clear passion and commitment to the aims

and values of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.


• Experience of producing or developing educational content.


• Demonstrable interest in, and an understanding of, evolving digital technologies and experiences

(especially in the field of education) would be an advantage.

The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) is a registered charity working with schools, colleges and communities
across the country to raise awareness about the Holocaust and its relevance today.

Like the rest of the team, you will also benefit from:

• Flexible working


• A generous annual leave policy including an office closure between Christmas and New Year.


• Enhanced Parental leave packages for employees with more than eighteen months service


• Pension


• Private medical insurance


• Sick Pay, Income Protection and Life assurance policies


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Season ticket loans