Schools Engagement Officer

As a Schools Engagement Officer you will work with the award-winning Arts & Culture Service to develop, deliver and monitor a range of ambitious cultural programmes for schools and families within London Borough of Culture. Your support will be crucial to the Cultural Programme Manager for Schools & Young People who you will report to and help to lead on these programmes.

You will work on large scale arts projects engaging schools and teachers. This will include performing arts showcases for school groups, art exhibitions for Primary Schools, the Wandsworth Heritage Festival, our creative CPD programme for teachers and managing portfolio funded projects to name a few.

Your role will be key to manage partnerships with schools while working closely with the Programme Office. As you will be looking after an arts and culture programme, some evening and weekend work will be required.

Hybrid working: Depending on service needs, full time office working will be required to meet project demands, this will vary week to week. Typically, a minimum of 2 days office based, including every Wednesday, and the remaining days home working. This will include working in project spaces across the borough.

Are you a creative professional with experience of delivering large scale engagement projects with young people?,

• Excellent project management and organisational skills (project management qualification is not required but experience is essential).


• Good creative facilitation skills, with experience of leading creative sessions with children and young people, preferably within a classroom setting.


• Strong communications skills, particularly in partnership working with other organisations.


• Knowledge and understanding of education practices and the UK school system.


• Great budget management skills and previous experience.


• Detail focussed with good evaluation skills and basic understanding of data.


Help us to deliver a year to remember, using the power of culture to transform lives, spark joy, connect people and improve wellbeing - let's do this together!

We are so excited that Wandsworth has been chosen by the Mayor of London to be London Borough of Culture 2025. We are planning an inspirational year of culture where every corner of Wandsworth comes alive in an explosion of creativity.

You can expect large scale dance events, a mass choral spectacular and a disability arts festival showcasing great artists from the borough, amongst many other things.

By sharing experiences and connecting, we believe culture has the power to make us all feel better. We want to start a movement across the Capital where everyone recognises that culture has the power to heal - a place where better health outcomes are achieved through the healing, inspirational power of culture and the arts.

Closing Date: 15^th September, 12am
Shortlisting Date: 20^th September
Interview Date: week commencing 23^rd September

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. This campaign is anonymised.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

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