Job: Open City Educator

Jun 1

Open City London is looking for an Educator to join its team in London

Open City is seeking an Educator to work across its young people’s programmes supporting children and teenagers to learn about city-making and pursue careers in design and the built environment.

Salary: £26,000–£31,000 pro rata depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Four days per week. Open City principally operates a four day week. We think this role is a four-day position but are open to other proposals including job shares for the right candidates
Reports to: Head of Education and Empowerment
Start date: August 2023/ASAP

Introduction

Open City makes London and its urban landscape more open, accessible and equitable. We help citizens of all backgrounds to understand and engage with how the city is designed and made and have a role in shaping its future.

The charity is embarking on an adventurous new academic year which will see it expand its education and empowerment programmes for students and schools, with a focus on those from historically excluded backgrounds. We are looking for a dynamic and proactive Educator to support the small core education and empowerment team in organising, delivering and evaluating education and empowerment programmes for young people of all ages throughout the year.

The Role

Open City Educator is an exciting new role supporting the charity’s growing portfolio of young people’s programmes.

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering creative workshops in schools and providing administrative support to the in-house and freelance team of educators in the following areas:

Delivering workshops and site visits for SEN and primary school students as part of a collaborative KS2 programme working with architects and built environment professionals.
Delivering dynamic and confident Creative Careers sessions and visits to secondary school students with early career professionals.
Providing administrative support on Accelerate – Open City’s KS5 programme for sixth-formers interested in future careers in architecture and the built environment.
Supporting the Head of Education and Empowerment and wider young people’s team to deliver additional one-off educational events from time to time throughout the year.

The Person

We are looking for someone who:

has very strong organisational and time-management skills
is familiar with the UK school curriculum and has the confidence to work closely with teachers and students of all ages
can engage and inspire young people of all ages
has an interest in architecture and the built environment and shares in Open City’s core values that this should be open and accessible to all
is confident in the use of the Google suite including Google docs, Sheets and Slides to build a robust support system to allow for the accurate reporting and greater scaling of our education projects
is happy to work as part of a small team and to engage with the hands-on approach of all staff at this small but dynamic charity
is happy and able to attend occasional events in the evening and on weekends. Some of Open City’s programmes with young people take place outside of school hours. The charity offers a TOIL policy to enable flexibility with working hours

Main Duties and Responsibilities

to deliver school workshops and visits
to manage feedback from events and workshops to allow the team to refine activities appropriately
to organise materials for workshops
to organise student and professional databases
to update the education pages of the Open City website on a regular basis
to work in conjunction with Open City colleagues to ensure maximum reach for the education activities, to the largest possible relevant audience including writing and sending email newsletters, creating and posting social media updates and photographing education events
to work with colleagues to ensure that all costs associated with Open City’s education and empowerment programmes are properly managed and recorded
to assist in the coordination, planning and operation of education programmes
to actively engage with and demonstrate an interest in the work and mission of Open City
to support and collaborate with the Open City team across various programmes and events where necessary
to take an active role in improving Open City on behalf of the staff who work there and the audience it serves