Museum Educator

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Job details

Job reference VAC007517 Date posted 03/10/2025 Application closing date 10/10/2025 Location City Museum And Art Gallery Queens Road Clifton Bristol BS8 1RL Salary BG8: £29,064 – £31,022 pro rata Package Blank Contractual hours 18.5 Basis Part time Job category/type Libraries, Museums and Archives

Part Time – 18.5hrs per week, Term Time Only, Fixed Term until 31st July 2026

Our award-winning museum learning programme is one of the largest in the South West, providing a comprehensive range of facilitated and self-directed learning activities suitable for all ages from Early Years to adult learners. Our museums and historic houses are visited by over 1 million people annually, including 44,000 children and young people in formal education.

The core learning programme is a traded service and is aligned with the National Curriculum KS1-4, with a focus on History, Art and Science. It is created in collaboration with teachers, external partners and colleagues across Bristol, in order to deliver an outstanding, inclusive and audience-focused cultural learning offer.

We are looking for a part-time, term-time only Museum Educator to support the Learning team with the delivery of our workshop programme for schools.

You will have a proven track record of delivering successful, creative and curriculum-focussed workshops and activities within a cultural environment. An effective communicator, you will have considerable experience of working with a range of learning audiences and a proven ability to adapt content and delivery to meet their different learning needs.

Educated to at least A-level or an equivalent professional qualification in a relevant subject, you will work closely with colleagues to deliver and help evaluate our high quality learning opportunities.

You will be expected to be available to work at any of Bristol Culture’s sites across the city during term time, dependent on the demand from schools. This could also include dressing-up and role-playing a character from Bristol’s past.

Bristol Culture and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and vulnerable adults.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We\’re a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We\’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

Bristol City Council is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.