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Volunteer
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Jobs
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Volunteer
We are always looking to welcome new volunteers to our award-winning team.
Role: Visitor Engagement Volunteers
Location: West Highland Museum
Hours: Variable
About the Role:
This role involves welcoming visitors to the museum and assisting in our gift shop. At the heart of the role is helping visitors have a valuable and fun experience at the museum as you meet, greet, and chat to visitors. No experience is necessary as training will be provided. The role is flexible and free on-site parking is available for volunteers.
Complete and submit our volunteer Expression of Interest form
Once we receive your form we will get in touch to make arrangements for you to come along and meet the team.
Role: Childrens’ Activities Volunteer
Location: West Highland Museum
Hours: Flexible
About the Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative volunteer to help create and deliver fun themed craft workshops at the museum during the school holidays. This position will involve working with young children.
Find out more:
Contact our Learning Officer, Flora Swietlicki at learn@westhighlandmuseum.org.uk
Role: Digital Engagement Volunteers
Location: Home working
Hours: Flexible
About the Role: We are looking for budding writers, photographers, podcasters, and videographers to help create engaging digital content for our website and our social media channels.
These roles are very flexible, and volunteers can submit content on an ad hoc basis. There are opportunities for:
- Writing informative and interesting blogs for our website and newsletter about local history or objects in our museum
- Creating engaging podcasts for our website about local history or objects in our museum
- Creating interesting videos or reels about the museum and its collections for Facebook and Instagram
Find out more:
Contact our Curator Manager, Vanessa Martin at curator@westhighlandmuseum.org.uk
Jobs
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Location: Fort William
Hours: 28 hours per week (with the option to job share)
Salary: £ 16,800 (£ 28,000 pro-rata) with a 5% uplift in January 2025
Contract: Fixed term 9 months
Person specification:
An enthusiastic, creative, and organised with excellent communication skills who has demonstrable experience in a similar role working with young learners of school age.
The person will need to travel to deliver workshop sessions from the museum’s Our Lochaber project to schools around the Lochaber area from Fort William to rural locations across the West Highlands and potentially the Inner Hebrides.
Job Requirements:
Essential Criteria:
- Have demonstrable experience in a similar role
- An organised person with excellent communication skills
- Be proficient in Microsoft products
- To programme a range of activities and events for the Our Lochaber project ensuring the programme is creative, inclusive and reaches our diverse audiences of young learners.
- Experience of delivering successful projects to a deadline
- Liaise with local schools to create learning sessions at the museum that will meet the needs of young learners and complement the Curriculum for Excellence
- Develop outreach sessions for the project
- Deliver active learning sessions with schools and involve other community groups
- Liaise with partner organisations, learning practitioners, museum staff, volunteers working on the Our Lochaber project to deliver a cohesive learning approach
- Liaising with other organisations on partnership events where appropriate
- Ensure the creation of creative outputs that can be used throughout the project and for the project’s digital gallery
- Ensuring that participating children’s voices are heard in the project’s outcomes
- Ensure activities are recorded and evaluated
Desirable Criteria:
- A Driving licence, or access to alternative transport to reach rural schools and other locations
- A knowledge of the museum, its collections and the Our Lochaber schools’
project
This post will be subject to a PVG check.
To apply:
Send your CV with a covering letter to the Curator Manager, Vanessa Martin.
Closing date: Monday 30th September 2024, 12pm.
For further information or questions, please contact the Curator Manager.
Email: curator@westhighlandmuseum.org,uk
Post: Mrs Vanessa Martin
Curator Manager
West Highland Museum
Cameron Square
Fort William
PH33 6AJ
Interviews will be held at the museum on the week commencing 30th September. Online interviews can be arranged by request. Interview questions will be provided in advance to candidates invited to interview.
Employment start date to be arranged with the successful candidate.
This post has been funded by Museums Galleries Scotland.