Job Description

CAN YOU TAKE ON DORA?

Name of employing organisation: London Play 

Date of commencement of employment: From September 2015

Job title: DORA Explorers project worker

Salary: £23,759 per annum (including ILW allowance) Local Government Joint Negotiating Committee-spinal column point .35

Pension provision: London Play will make a matched contribution of up to 6% of salary to a pension scheme of your choice

Hours of work:  Part time - three days (21 hours) a week - This is a one-year post

Annual paid leave: 30 working days excluding bank holidays for full-time staff (pro-rata for part-time staff)

London Play’s new, year-long Heritage Lottery project will consider the impact of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) on the culture and practice of children’s play during WW1. Building on our partnership with Half Moon Theatre, the project will encourage young Londoners to research DORA and consider the parallels, commonalities and differences between the freedoms and constrictions surrounding play then and now.

The project will empower children in schools across London to work together with archivists, historians and volunteers to research the nature of the Act, its effects and impact - heritage learning that will be shared with pupils, parents and the public.

To celebrate this heritage, the project will culminate in a week-long exhibition run at City Hall, including a film of participants' journey to knowledge. It will be an example of heritage in action, opening children's eyes to how the past shapes the present, encouraging healthy scepticism, raising awareness of propaganda, and forming the basis for campaigning to assert children’s rights to play.

The successful applicant will be a self-starter with the drive and confidence to see this unique project through from start to finish. You should have strong skills in project management and multiple-partnership working; and have plenty of experience in working with children and volunteers.

So if you are able to work effectively with primary schools pupils, actor/musicians, volunteers, a film-maker, an eminent historian, playworkers and the Greater London Authority then we want to hear from you.

CLOSING DATE: 5:00pm Wednesday 16th September

INTERVIEWS: Tuesday 22nd September