Curriculum Curator

Please see the job description document on our Opportunity Hub for full details of the role and requirements.

This Autumn, we are building on the success of the first three waves of our flagship Ambassadors programmes to work with over 400 young people in sixteen state schools within the London area. This enables us to test the design and sustainability of our programme further before opening it up to young people and schools across the UK.

For more about this year’s programme, head to our website.

We are hiring someone who is excited to see how far we can develop and deepen the narrative of environmental education in schools and is bold enough to follow through.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and experienced professional who loves designing innovative and real experiences for young people who are curious about what we do at Bertha Earth, who care about the future of our planet, and who are committed to going on this one-year journey with their school and us as a participant on our Ambassadors Programme.

They will be committed to gathering truly diverse thought and pedagogical insight, bringing people and ideas together into robust curriculum design. Working closely with key team members across the organisation, they will ensure our curriculum and content are exciting, ambitious, inclusive and relevant for the young people we work with.

Projects
The Curriculum Curator will act as a master weaver, bringing together key stakeholders, existing programme partners, our design principles, and the vision and ethos of the organisation, as well as identifying and bringing in the missing threads needed to build a strong, values-driven and age-appropriate curriculum that sits across all our programmes. 

Using their expertise and skills, they will champion the curriculum project within the organisation, ensuring it is the iterative and collaborative beating heart of our programmes and ensuring it encompasses our five key pillars of environmental leadership, activism, storytelling, nature connection and self-care.

Role Responsibilities

Culture & ethos

• Model and support the ethos and culture of the organisation

• Contribute to the value-driven ethos of the organisation

Curriculum

• Lead content review meetings with our facilitators and delivery partners to get the best from people, capturing learnings from delivery for future curriculum design.

• Ensure the voices of young people are brought into our design and review process in a meaningful and authentic way.

• Foster healthy debate within a curriculum working group of content partners, and bring in freelance experts to foster new ideas and diversity of thought.

• Support the development of an exciting and robust theory of change

• Lead the design of strong, clear, engaging session plans for the young people on the Ambassador programme, which can be easily understood and consistently interpreted by other facilitators. This could later also include supporting content design for a teacher-training programme.

Safeguarding

• Adhere to best practice safeguarding standards, including individual school’s processes where relevant

• Support organisational responsibility for safeguarding and planning for safe programmes

Details of the role

This flexible role can be shaped in conversation with the successful candidate but must include holding a regular fortnightly curriculum working group at an agreed regular time. Tuesdays and Thursdays are preferred.

Initially, a fixed-term, 6-month contract working 2-3 days a week, with progression opportunities, including the opportunity for permanent roles within the organisation.

Working Pattern

To fulfil the requirements of this role, there may be occasional in-person touchpoints with the team in our London office or partner schools; the ability and desire to travel to these is paramount.

There may also be occasional travel outside of London, for which reasonable travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed.

Role Requirements

• Subject to an enhanced DBS check with Bertha Earth. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

• We require two references, one from your current or most recent employer and another (if you have worked with young people that must be included)

• Strong, reliable wifi connection whilst working from home

• You will be required to agree to and sign our code of conduct

• You must have the right to work in the UK

Important dates

Please note that you must be available for all the following dates for your application to be considered.

1. Application Deadline: 09:00 Friday 25th October - This is the deadline for receiving your answers to the questions and also your CV (optional)

2. Final Interview (In person at the Bertha Earth office in central London): Tuesday the 5th of November or Thursday the 7th of November (40-60 minutes)

3. Start date: Negotiable depending on availability and notice period of successful candidate

If we can support you in bringing your best self to the application or interview process, please contact us at recruitment@berthaearth.com for advice or to discuss reasonable adjustments.

All candidates will be notified by Friday, 1st November at the latest if their initial application has been successful.