Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery

Job Summary

We are looking for a Curriculum Specialist with a culture-led approach to help shape a pilot with 3 schools and local partners across Key Stage 2.

Blackburn with Darwen's Place Partnership of local cultural organisations are looking for a curriculum specialist to develop a series of scalable activities supporting place-based learning in the local area, inspired by the rich culture of making - past, present and future.

For this phase of activity, educators have expressed a particular interest in resources that meet the Design & Technology curriculum, and we are also interested in increasing resources that meet cross-curriculum areas.

This project is part of the wider Blackburn with Darwen Place Partnership, funded by Arts Council England. The Place Partnership brings together Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, British Textile Biennial, Culturapedia, Festival of Making CIC, Prism Contemporary, The Bureau Centre for the Arts, The Making Rooms & Uncultured Creatives.

To deliver this work, we are looking for someone who:

• Has in-depth knowledge of the KS2 curriculum
• Has experience engaging with educators and understanding the pressures they are under
• Can facilitate conversations between educators, partners (e.g. industry & cultural organisations), as well as young people
• Can create scalable activity plans that respond directly to developing relationships/feedback - there is the opportunity to engage further creative support in illustration/film development, with a separate budget dedicated to this
• Has a proven track record of working with cultural industries or creative projects
• Is committed to creating thoughtful, engaging and creative activity plans, embedded within the curriculum

The fee for this piece of work is £9,000, which includes facilitation of 3 relationships between schools and partners, and the creation of scalable activity plans. There is an additional budget of up to £5,000 for creation of resources.

Expected deliverables include:

• Develop the framework for 3 partnerships between schools and local organisations
• Facilitate an estimated 3 interviews/visits/sessions per partnership (exact outputs will depend on framework development)
• Develop scalable activity plans connecting D&T with cross-curricular links and career elements, responding directly to each partnership
• Work closely with BM&AG and Festival of Making CIC to share project updates and collaboratively steer its direction

The Curriculum Specialist is not expected to create all final visual resources - an additional design budget is available to build the activity plans into visual and engaging resources. Bids may include the option to allocate the design budget to the provider as a complete service.

We will be responsible for securing schools and partners while taking into account the Curriculum Specialist's suggestions or directions.