Heritage Learning Officer
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, CV13 0AD |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5880 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Based at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre CV13 0AD, plus also working at museums in Melton Mowbray, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Coalville.
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £35,541 - £39,165 per anum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 22.2 hours per week (ideally Monday to Wednesday, but flexible).
Contract Type: Fixed term (9 - 12 months)
Closing Date: Wednesday 3rd September
Interview Date(s): 25th September
Heritage Learning Officer
Are you looking for experience of working with schools in a museum setting?
Do you enjoy sharing stories in interesting and accessible ways?
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic professional to work three days a week (preferably Monday to Wednesday) to lead on the development, delivery, promotion and evaluation of our schools learning programme across Leicestershire County Council’s five heritage sites: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, The 1620s House and Garden at Donington le Heath, Charnwood Museum, Harborough Museum and Melton Carnegie Museum. The role is a job share with a colleague who leads on the informal learning programme, working closely together to provide dynamic and engaging learning opportunities for all.
The role will need someone with an understanding of the National Curriculum, experience of working with formal and informal learning groups, developing formal and informal learning sessions, experience of budget and staff management, as well as website and social media work. Delivery of the programme will involve the post holder managing our education practitioners, including freelancers and salaried staff and working closely with front of house booking teams across the sites.
This is a maternity cover role for 9 months, with the potential to extend to 12 months.
Our mission is to offer an excellent, relevant and sustainable learning provision that meets the needs of a diverse audience, making efficient use of resources and maximises opportunities for income generation. The role will work alongside colleagues in the museum’s events and front of house teams and a wide range of colleagues across the Service.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
• NVQ Level 4, or equivalent level of experience
• Experience of managing a team and budgets
• Experience of developing and delivering national curriculum-based workshops and family-based learning
activities or resources
• Current knowledge of the National Curriculum and current issues affecting schools and colleges
• Proficient IT skills, including the ability to effectively use Microsoft packages
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, including the ability to resolve conflict and report
writing
• Excellent time management and the ability and willingness to travel to all five museums sites around the
county as necessary and working outside normal office hours at events and meetings.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Richard Knox
Access and Interpretation Manager
Telephone: 0116 3052180
Email: richard.knox@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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