Participation Facilitators

Job Summary

IWM (Imperial War Museums)’s Participation team are looking for exceptional storytellers to join us as Facilitators.

We help people learn more about the impact of conflict on our world, through creative activities and learning experiences across all our sites.

You will deliver our programmes and provide operational support for the team. This might include running school sessions and family activities, supporting community events, performances, and workshops, and helping with evaluation and our volunteers.

You will work with young people, families, schools, adults, and communities, supporting more people to engage with IWM.

We will provide training, opportunities to visit other organisations and meet colleagues, to enhance your understanding and knowledge of IWM’s subject matter and collections and develop your creative practice.

Duties include:

You will facilitate and deliver our programmes, on and off-site.

You will be expected to prepare the set up for each learning session, including briefing Front of House, arranging learning spaces and liaising with participants.

 The programmes you will deliver include:

• Learning sessions, workshops, and activities for young people in education (6–18)
• Self-guided school and education group visits
• ‘Meet-and-greet’ group welcomes
• Activities and hands-on creative programmes for family and intergenerational audiences
• Creative programming, workshops, and events for young people (11-25)
• Creative programming, workshops and events for our adult and community audiences
• Digital activity for all our audiences 

You will provide a high-quality, engaging learning experience for everyone.

At the end of each day, you will be expected to take down all session materials, debrief the Producers and evaluate each learning session.

You will adapt your approach for everyone you meet, including communities with experience of conflict, and work sensitively with IWM’s subject matter.

You will provide additional meet and greet support for the team when needed.

You will build relationships with our audiences, partners, and communities, helping people and organisations connect with IWM.

You will help make sure our programmes run smoothly, working closely with other IWM teams, and ensuring audiences understand the museum and our programme.

You will support our volunteers and freelance staff. 

You will support administration for the team and programme, including evaluation and bookings.

You will help manage resources used by the team, including our Learning Spaces.

You will keep up to date with learning and engagement best-practice, taking part in training, meeting colleagues at other organisations, and developing your own approach.

You will be actively committed to health and safety and safeguarding, ensuring familiarity with all IWM's Health and Safety, and Safeguarding Policies and procedures.

This job includes the requirement for occasional evening work, particularly with adults, young people and communities. Advance notice will always be given when this need arises.

For a full list of duties and the person specification (which your application will be marked against) please view the Job Description on the IWM website.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This role is subject to:
A basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
Equal Opportunities
IWM is committed to a policy of Equal Opportunities.
We miss out when people feel IWM isn't for them, and are committed to removing and reducing barriers to make IWM open to everyone.
Our Access and Inclusion strategy has been developed to promote openness, equal opportunities to access, inclusivity and encourage diversity in everything that we do, from employment practices, the services we provide to our visitors to the facilities we make available to public.
At IWM we seek to address the need for greater diversity within our workforce as well as the wider museum and heritage sector. In all our practices we embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from suitable candidates of all backgrounds.