Salary: £36,000

Two Temple Place is looking for an energetic and passionate Community & Education Manager to develop, manage, administrate and deliver a year-round programme of community and educational projects and activities.

Job Title: Community & Education Manager

Reporting to: Head of Culture & Community

Working Closely with: the Director, Community partners, Schools Facilitator, Visitor Services Coordinator, Exhibition Coordinator, Volunteers

Based at: Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD

Contract: Permanent (full-time). Holiday entitlement is 25 days, plus Bank Holidays. We operate a contributory Pension Scheme

Salary: £36,000

Two Temple Place and the Bulldog Trust
Two Temple Place is a dazzling architectural gem in central London, built in 1895 by William Waldorf Astor and owned by the registered charity The Bulldog Trust. We run a growing year-round programme of community activity, projects and cultural events – including a major annual free exhibition – designed to open our doors more often to more people. To generate the funds for this, we make our beautiful and utterly unique building available for commercial hire. Between the exhibition and year-round programme we welcome over 50,000 visitors in a typical year.

The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our small team, and to play a key role in the development, growth and delivery of a programme of activities, creative workshops, and events working with community partners, charities, schools and educational programmes.

Every year, our exhibition is accompanied by a successful schools’ and community group workshop programme alongside which we offer free learning resources to other visitors. This post will take the lead on the development of our community and educational offer, reaching more community groups, charities, schools and other educational partners throughout the year.

Main Responsibilities

-Maintain current relationships and identify and build new relationships with community groups or projects using creativity as a tool to engage, empower and inspire people

-Conceive, devise and deliver innovative activities with and for community groups. With the 2TP team, identify high quality facilitators and creatives to support delivery. These might be one-off workshops or longer-term projects depending on the needs and interests of the groups we partner with

-Work with the Schools Facilitator in the production and delivery of learning and workshop resources and activities for schools throughout the year. During the exhibitions, take the lead from the exhibition’s themes as inspiration

Person Specification

-Demonstrable commitment to making opportunity, creativity and culture available to all

-A real passion for and understanding of working with people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds

-Several years’ experience of running community and/or educational programmes in an arts, community or school setting

-Excellent understanding of good practice in community engagement and participation and clear knowledge of diversity and inclusion challenges in the charity and cultural sectors

The full job description is available to download here.

How to Apply
Please choose ONE of the following two ways of applying:

1) Send us a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4 and CV via the link on our vacancies page, or to info@twotempleplace.org

2) Send us your CV and a short video (maximum of 3 minutes) via WeTransfer www.wetransfer.com to info@twotempleplace.org

In either means of application – letter or video – you should outline your interest in Two Temple Place’s Cultural and Community programmes and how your experience makes you suitable for this role.

On receipt of your application, you will receive an Equal Opportunities from by weblink. Please fill this in to complete your application. The form helps us in monitoring how we are reaching applicants. This information is anonymously stored.

Deadline for applications 1pm on Monday 27 January 2025.

First interviews will be held in week commencing 3 February 2025 in person at Two Temple Place. We require the post-holder to be available to start by the beginning of May 2025, with the option of starting earlier.

Two Temple Place welcomes applications from the widest possible range of people and is keen to encourage interest from candidates from communities that are currently under- represented in the industry. We take this to include people from Diaspora and Global Majority and ethnically diverse, migrant or refugee, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary, neurodivergent, Disabled or health impaired, and unemployed backgrounds, those affected by homelessness, care-leavers, and those who demonstrably identify that they are from a disadvantaged socio-economic background.

We do not require applicants for this role to have a degree.

Please note that as a historic building, there is a short flight of stone steps leading up to our entrance, and wheelchair access to the building can be gained via a stair climber.