Family Learning Creative Learning Coordinator

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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 a combination of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and as a result of Grimm & Co being awarded Family Hubs Tier 3′.

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. These will span multiple artforms (such as writing, reading, craft, visual art, drama, storytelling, etc.) and will include a range of innovative outputs. These programmes will have creativity and literacy at their heart, and will support children’s communication skills, confidence and enthusiasm to learn.

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.

Full job description, person specification and “How to Apply” instructions can be found in our Recruitment Pack online – creative-learning-coordinator-family-learning.pdf