Schools & Education Co-Director

Chol Theatre is looking for a Schools & Education Co-Director to join our shared organisational leadership team and lead the next phase of our work across schools and education.

Schools and education have been central to Chol’s practice for more than 15 years. Most recently, our four-year Caring & Creative Schools programme enabled us to deepen our work with children, teachers, artists and school leaders, while developing a rich body of learning around creative pedagogy, teacher development, long-term partnerships, play, imagination and co-creation.

We are now looking for someone to help shape the next iteration of this work.

This is not a role about continuing or replicating what has come before. The successful candidate will inherit years of practice, relationships, evidence and learning, and will bring their own expertise, ambition, ideas and critical thinking to help develop Chol’s future schools and education strategy.

The role will lead the development of our education portfolio, including partnerships with schools and Trusts, teacher development, creative pedagogy, future programme models, evaluation and learning, and the sustainability of our schools work.

You will also work collaboratively with the Strive Lead and wider Co-Director team to embed Chol’s organisational approach to anti-racism, equity, inclusion and belonging across schools and education activity.

As a member of Chol’s Co-Director team, you will also contribute to wider organisational strategy, partnerships, fundraising, advocacy, learning and shared decision-making.

We are open to applicants from a range of backgrounds across education, creative learning, arts education, teacher development, cultural education, school leadership, strategy and related practice.

Hours: 3 days per week / 24 hours (0.6 FTE)
Salary: £20,884.50 per annum, based on a full-time equivalent salary of £34,807.50
Contract: Fixed-term contract for 1 year, with the intention to extend subject to funding.