Royal Museums Greenwich is seeking two Migration, Heritage and Belonging Community Facilitators

The Community Facilitators will adapt and deliver development sessions with partners to target underrepresented groups (eg. Somali, African-Caribbean, African, South Asian) and develop relationships between established and newly arrived communities. Consultation on the proposed areas of activity will collaboratively develop the focus of the project in line with participants’ needs.

The Community Facilitators will explore the collection, drawing out a range of primary materials (3D objects and archival materials) that most effectively speak to the lived experience and shared legacies of migration. The Community facilitators will then create community-led programmes based on the prioritised objects.

Key Responsibilities:

• To scaffold participant’s introduction to the museum and developing their responses
• To support peer sharing of experience and sensitively facilitate conversation around developing a set of tips to share with curating and archive teams
• To develop a sustainable and effective monthly session format and resources
• To develop effective evaluation activities and debriefing
• To capture oral histories from local communities
• To develop and deliver sessions with key community groups that ignite curiosity and conversations around objects and artefacts from the collections relating to migration’
• To consider and advise on the language used to interpret the collections

Please read the full Job Description here.

Salary / Fee: 2 days per month at £165 per day (payments subject to National Insurance and tax deductions)

To apply please send your CV and covering letter to Chardine Taylor-Stone CTaylor-Stone@rmg.co.uk by 9am on 2 March 2020.  This should include your relevant work experience and why you are interested in this role. 

Interviews on 16 March.