Creative Learning Coordinator, Connecting Chronicles

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Grimm & Co

Changing Lives One Story at a Time

Grimm & Co is a Yorkshire charity, based in Rotherham, that supports children and young people to make meaning of the world around them and build a positive narrative for themselves within it through the joyful discovery of stories.

Our Emporium of Stories is an enchanting story destination with Book Nook, Apothecary to the Magical, a story market, Feastery (serving story-themed food and drink) and secret doors that hide beanstalks and writing/theatre spaces, where imaginations are ignited for children and young people to bring stories to life.

This role has been made possible due to funding support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, in place until August 2027.

We are looking for a Creative Learning Coordinator – Connecting Chronicles

The role in brief:

Working closely with the Head of Learning & Impact and Creative Learning Manager, coordinators will develop, plan and facilitate a variety of fun, engaging and inspiring arts-based activities for children and young people to empower them to undertake intergenerational action research with people of all backgrounds and ages to unearth and unlock hidden stories. These will span multiple artforms (such as writing, reading, craft, visual art, drama, storytelling etc.) and will include a range of innovative outputs that creatively share intangible heritage of cultural spaces through stories. These programmes will have creativity, culture and heritage at their heart, and will support children’s communication skills, confidence and enthusiasm to learn, whilst building a sense of ownership, pride and connectivity to heritage assets of the town as the future custodians of these spaces/artefacts/stories.

Coordinators will adopt the Grimm & Co pedagogy – using a child-centred approach – to build socio-cultural literacies and support children and young people to make sense of the world around them and find their place within it. Simultaneously, the creative learning provision will build the capacity of those with influence on the child (parents/carers, educators etc.) and coordinators will work to build a whole family and community approach.

All of the Creative Learning Team will work closely with partner organisations and funders, including children’s social care services, family/early childhood settings and formal/alternative education institutions in order to understand and meet the needs of the most marginalised communities to support educational outcomes.