Artis is seeking to recruit a member of the team to support the care of our partner schools and help to build new relationships with schools and other partners in this vibrant creative learning charity.

Have you experience of working with primary schools or managing education or arts-based projects? We’re looking for someone who has amazing interpersonal skills, who can build positive relationships and isn’t afraid of talking to anyone, who is meticulous about the detail, and who can successfully increase interest for our match funded schools programme to join our team.

Who are we?

Artis is a creative learning charity that enables children to sing, act, and dance their curriculum. This experiential way of learning ensures sparks fly in the right direction! With 4.3 million children in the UK growing up in poverty, impacting their mental health and school attendance, Artis has a profound effect on children’s wellbeing by prioritising the arts throughout learning while supporting vital communication skills.

Artis was established in 2004 as a social business to pioneer creative learning in schools and tackle social deprivation, converting to a registered charity in 2017. We bring the expertise of real performing artists into the classroom working with primary-aged children to enhance their ability to learn, challenge and explore through curriculum-based cross-artform practice. We work with primary schools in the top 20% of the most deprived areas in England and we recruit and develop artists to work closely with them and deliver focused learning based on the needs of individual schools. This ranges from lack of engagement to poor literacy or maths skills. Within this framework we also support teachers to develop new management strategies and embed creative learning in their schools.

What is our impact?

Since our inception, our practitioners, creative learning specialists have sung about punctuation, acted out fractions and danced the solar system with 775 partner schools across England, with a focus on the urban conurbations of Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester, tackling areas of highest deprivation.

Over 277,000 children from across England have participated in Artis programmes that fuse performing arts with curriculum-based learning to enhance educational outcomes, and we have helped sustain the careers of more than 600 creative learning specialists, through employment, training and mentoring.

Our goal is to deliver Artis in partnership with 75 schools in the top 20% of the most deprived areas in England each year, supporting the children and teachers whose lives are most affected by cultural and economic deprivation.

Please click on the links below to access the School Partnerships Manager information pack and the online equal opportunities monitoring form:

School Partnerships Manager Information Pack

Equal opportunties online form.

Please send a copy of your current CV along with a covering letter (2 sides of A4 maximum) outlining your suitability and motivation for applying for this role to ping@artisfoundation.org.uk

Closing date: Midday, Monday 19 August 2024

Shortlisting: Friday 23 August 2024

Interviews: Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 September 2024.  To be held in London in person.

If you are interested and have any questions, would like the application documents in a different format, or would like any support with the process, please email us or call 0207 324 9880.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, Artis welcomes applications from all sectors of the community, regardless of gender, age, race, sexuality or disability and makes appointments based solely on the applicant’s ability to fulfil the duties of the post.

Candidates who are shortlisted for an interview will be given the opportunity to specify any access needs so that appropriate arrangements can be made. In support of our commitment to diversity, all applications will be anonymised prior to shortlisting.