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Lead Facilitator - Electronic Music CPD

THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND
44 - 400 per day
Remote
Full-time
10th August 2026
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  • Role:Lead Facilitator – Discover Secondary
  • Reports to:Discover Programme Manager
  • Programme development:28 hours per month (£44 per hour).
  • Programme delivery:A minimum of six days per year (£400 per day).
  • Contract:Initial 12-month contract to be extended by mutual agreement.
  • Location:This is a home-based role, with regular UK-wide travel required.

Role Overview

The Lead Facilitator is a senior creative practitioner who will play a central role in establishing, piloting and growing the Young Sounds Discover Secondary training offer. Discover exists to make music education fairer by helping educators identify musical talent and potential in all young people, through the 8 Facets of Musical Potential and the programme’s underpinning pedagogical principles. Discover Secondary extends this approach to secondary-aged young people working with music technology in electronic and Black-British music.

Discover Secondary is grounded in EQUALIZE, an AHRC-funded research project led by Young Sounds UK in partnership with the Black Music Research Unit (University of Westminster). Working directly with secondary-aged young people in Bradford and Birmingham, we investigated how electronic and Black-British music can re-engage students in music and reveal musical potential that traditional curricula often overlook. Its findings provide the evidence base for the Discover Secondary training model that this role will help to develop and deliver.

As a new strand of the programme, the role has a significant initial focus on development: working closely with the Programme Manager to design, test and refine the training model and its supporting resources before it enters wider delivery. As the offer establishes, the Lead Facilitator will work with the Programme Manager to recruit, train and lead a new team of associate facilitators – delivering high-quality training sessions themselves, modelling best practice, and supporting the team to deliver consistently and confidently. They will also contribute to the programme’s quality assurance and evaluation processes.

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Application process

Expressions of interest should be submitted via email to recruitment@youngsounds.org.uk

It’s for you to decide how to present your case but please include, in no more than three pages, the following:

  • Your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
  • Evidence that you meet the skills and experience required.
  • Why you’re interested in the role.
  • The name of two organisations you have worked with previously who we could approach for a reference should you progress to the final stage of the process. Please note we would not approach referees without checking with you first.

Timeline

The deadline for expressions of interest is 12pm (noon) on Monday 10 August 2026.

Interviews will be held in person between 24 August and 4 September 2026, date and location to be confirmed. Please let us know in your application if you have any commitments which may impact your availability during this timeframe.

Formal start date will be agreed with the successful applicant; however the contract is expected to commence early September 2026.

About Young Sounds UK

Young Sounds exists because musical talent is everywhere but opportunity isn’t: family finances and other obstacles too often get in the way. We’re here to change this in two key ways:

  • We support young musicians from low-income families with funding and other help;
  • We support music education through training, advocacy and research.

We became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in April 2023 and also joined an expanded cohort of National Youth Music Organisations (NYMOs). We currently support over 1,000 individual young people across the UK every year and demand for our support is increasing. It’s an exciting time to join a pioneering organisation at the forefront of British music education.

Our small and fully remote team work across the UK, comprising a mix of full time and part time employees supported by specialist part time and term time freelancers.

Young Sounds UK is the working name for registered charity Awards for Young Musicians.