Learning & Access Officer - ABS44974
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,728.00 to £36,601.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Mintlaw, AB42 5EE |
| Company: | Aberdeenshire Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ABS44974 |
Summary
Job Description
Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Cultural Services is delighted to offer this opportunity to join the team at an exciting time of development. We are looking to recruit creative, passionate, forward thinking team players to help drive the service forward and deliver on our ambitious plans around the Council’s multi-million-pound project in Peterhead to create a museum of Aberdeenshire. This role is made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Learning and Access Officer is responsible for building and expanding sustainable partnerships with Aberdeenshire-based groups and organisations. With cross-service colleagues, the postholder will identify audiences and promote best practice for learning and access for the new museum project. Key activities will include organising and delivering community workshops and outreach activities across Aberdeenshire to meet the outcomes and outputs for the project. The work will then feed into the creation of dynamic and accessible outreach, education and exhibition programmes.
As a key member of the project team, you will have highly-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and communicate with a range of individuals and groups and project management experience of high-quality participatory cultural programmes.
The post is based at Museum Services HQ in Mintlaw and is line managed by the Project Officer (Cultural Tides Project). The role is full-time and for a fixed term, ending 31 March 2026.
Secondment opportunities will be considered based on the advertised salary, subject to candidates having the mutual consent of their current employer.
It is anticipated that successful applicants will be invited to interview at Aberdeenshire Museums Service HQ in Mintlaw the week of 11 August 2025.
This post has a minimum requirement of one reference which must be your current or most recent employer.
Informal Enquiries to Niko Sanguinetti, Project Officer (Cultural Tides Project) at 01467 536858
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