Job Description
- Salary: £22,271.20 per year (£27,839 full time equivalent)
- Contract: 12-month Parental leave cover
- Working hours: Part-time, 30 hours a week, 9am to 5pm Tuesday – Friday (0.8 FTE)
- Deadline for applications: 11.59pm on Sunday 14th December 2025.
What will you be doing?
If you love science and education and want to share your ability, enthusiasm and experience, this exciting opportunity to join our Education team may be for you.
We The Curious welcomes over 70,000 school visitors a year – offering two floors of hands-on science experience along with our broad Education program of Workshops, Shows and Theme Days.
As Education Communicator you will be part of the team responsible for designing and delivering the Education programme of We The Curious, focusing mainly on a school audience but including other audience groups too.
Required skills
_A strong foundation of knowledge in the topics covered within the Primary and Secondary Science curriculums and some knowledge or experience of post-16 Science curriculum areas.
_Experience of successfully engaging with under-18 audiences, particularly schools.
_Experience of facilitating learning. This could be in a range of different environments such as laboratories, classrooms, exhibitions or outside spaces.
_An understanding of the school environment and some familiarity with the Primary and/or Secondary Science curriculums.
_An understanding of and enthusiasm for how and why learning happens.
_Experience of creating innovative and successful learning activities.
_Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
_Excellent organisation and time management skills.
_Ability to engage and question a range of audiences appropriately.
_Great team player and collaborator, but also able to work independently and problem solve.
Benefits
Working with us
We value the people that work with us. Our staff have access to the following:
Wellbeing & support
_Flexible working
_Hybrid working (if suitable and stated for role)
_Cycle to work scheme
_Free yearly flu jabs and eye tests
_Paid sick leave for physical and mental health
_Mental Health First Aiders
_Confidential advice & counselling through the Employee Support Programme
Leave
_25 days in addition to bank holidays (all pro-rata).
_A day of extra holiday for every 5 years’ service
_An amount of paid leave for emergency dependent care, domestic emergency leave and compassionate leave
New Parent Policy
We are proud to be a family friendly organisation, which is why we work to develop our people practices in line with that value. We have recently introduced a non-gendered approach to Maternity and Paternity, re-branded as our “New Parent Policy”. There are eligibility criteria and terms and conditions, but the key take away is that anyone who is due to become a new parent, regardless of their gender, can take 1 year off work, and we’ll pay your full salary for the first five months.
Facilities & discounts
_Free tickets to the venue for you and up to four guests, plus 12 additional entry tickets per calendar year to give away.
_15% off in the We The Curious café
_20% off in our shop
_Range of discounts with local businesses and free entry to other local attractions.
_Social events
_Secure cycle storage
Pension
_We offer a pension scheme with 5% company contributions.
Death in service benefit
_Four times your annual salary.