Programme Manager, Schools

Programme Manager School

Job title: Programme Manager, Schools

Grade/hay score: Pay Band 2

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Duration of contract: 12 Months

Salary: Up to £39k per annum

Location: London Transport Museum

The Closing date of the Application is Monday 8th May at 23:59 hours

About the Museum

London Transport Museum (LTM) is the world’s leading museum of urban transport. Every year we work with thousands of visitors and programme participants, business partners and industry decision-makers to ignite curiosity and shape London’s future! Through a range of programming, exhibitions and digital content, we aim to welcome everyone, provide genuine life opportunities for London’s most disadvantaged, stimulate new ideas and connections and engage with and respond to local London needs.

Overview of the role

This role leads on the operational delivery and strategic direction of LTM’s learning and engagement programmes for schools, playing a key role in fulfilling LTM's mission as an educational and heritage charity. As Programme Manager, Schools, you will ensure the success of these programmes, through managing a motivated team including learning officers, a learning assistant, freelancers and volunteers. You will support the team to develop and deliver an innovative, high quality and sustainable offer across digital and physical platforms that reaches new audiences and meets their needs. You will play an active role in fundraising and income generation to ensure the viability of the programmes.

Key Accountabilities

Proactively plan with the Head of Learning the strategic direction for learning and engagement activity with schools using sound judgment, evaluative evidence and considered sector horizon scanning, ensuring Head of Learning has all necessary information to make business cases to Senior Leadership Team.

Work collaboratively and flexibly with the Head of Learning and Programme Managers across Learning to help realise the best possible outcomes for audiences and the museum. This will include directly managing some projects, events or activities as part of the strategic development of the programmes.

Own and make effective the relationship with other key internal stakeholders - particularly Marketing and Development, Digital, Customer Services, Operations & Resourcing and Curatorial - to ensure that the schools programmes are visible, valued and integrated with the wider work of the museum.

Ensure that schools programmes are planned and delivered in a realistic and sustainable budgetary and resourcing framework. Where work is necessarily fixed term, ensure this is widely understood and legacy is maximised.

Ensure effective relationship building with representative beneficiaries and existing/potential external partners - including key contacts across TfL - and/or strategic bodies to keep the programmes current, connected to wider agendas, and able to leverage funding.

Enable and advocate for the inclusion of and consideration of the needs of audiences in museum activity.

Play a key role in identifying and developing new creative partnerships and fundraising proposals (in collaboration with Development) to build an appropriately mixed-funded programme of schools activity.

The post holder will typically manage budgets in the region of £80,000 per annum, with additional restricted project-specific funding depending on current programming.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Highly effective interpersonal skills to engage and work with participants and stakeholders: exceptional ability to build personal and organisational relationships at all levels for strategic benefit (Essential)
• Ability to strategically plan, articulate and ensure delivery of coherent programmes from varied activities
• Highly developed project management skills with a proven ability to manage a complex portfolio of work, delivering to time and budget (Essential)
• Flexible and resilient with an ability to adapt plans as necessary to realise new opportunities and ensure delivery
• Excellent communication skills to effectively represent the Museum in a range of environments and media e.g. stakeholder meetings, formal presentations, written proposals, reports

Knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge of learning and participation best practice particularly in relation to STEM (Essential)
• Working knowledge of government policy, curriculum development and the wider landscape relating to formal education (Essential)
• Demonstrable knowledge of current trends and best practice relating to digital learning and engagement
• Demonstrable knowledge of fundraising and income generation opportunities relevant to the museums and wider cultural sector
• A good working knowledge of Transport for London’s services and the history of public transport in London or demonstrably prepared to acquire this
• Demonstrable knowledge of programme design and impact assessment approaches in cultural learning programmes.

Experience

• Experience of planning and delivering learning programmes for schools in out of school settings (Essential)
• Experience of developing and delivering digital learning activity
• Experience of commissioning and partnership working in the production of high quality and innovative programmes for schools
• Experience of delivering complex projects, both wholly from initial concept and also within received parameters (Essential)
• Experience of successfully recruiting, training and managing people in teams including freelancers and volunteers (Essential)
• Experience of effective budget and resource management to deliver robust programmes, including spaces, objects and people (Essential)

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organization. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymizing software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair

Application Process

Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter.

Benefits - Externals

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel