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Heritage and Volunteer Manager, Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's

  •  London
  •  Â£30k-40k
  •  Full time
  •  Closes June 9, 2025
  •  Lucy
  •  recruitment@grandjunction.org.uk
  • #Combined arts

Description

Job Description

Paddington Development Trust is seeking to appoint a passionate Heritage and Volunteer Manager to join our small team at one of London's most vibrant and unusual arts and heritage venues, Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's.

Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's (http://www.grandjunction.org.uk - www.grandjunction.org.uk), run by Paddington Development Trust, is a highly valued Grade 1 Listed church building. Grand Junction delivers a highly diverse cultural, heritage, and community programme, locally and for a London-wide audience. Since launching in 2019, Grand Junction has produced events, concerts, tours, and talks, as well as working with a wide range of external promoters and partners.

Ten minutes' walk from Paddington Station, the building is one of the finest neo-Gothic churches in the country. Grade 1 Listed, it was built in the 1870s by the great Victorian architect G.E Street, who orchestrated the very best artists and craftsmen of the day to produce a masterwork combining architecture, sculpture, stained glass, and a remarkable painted ceiling. It has been lovingly restored and a beautiful new building added alongside, designed by Dow Jones Architects, which provides a caf , learning studio and visitor facilities.

Leading our Heritage and Volunteer Programmes, you will be an instrumental member of the team. Working with volunteers and the local community to deliver an eclectic, high-quality heritage offer and an impactful volunteering experience. Your particular focus will be on the You Are Here project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Across multiple strands, the project focuses on the use of digital outputs to explore the heritage of local community groups, alongside that of our Grade I Listed building and local area.

This post is made possible through funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Salary is £35,000

Applications close at 10am on 9 June 2025

Job Requirements

  • At least three-years experience working within an arts or heritage, community, or charity, setting where communities access learning, creative or wellbeing experiences and/or a volunteering programme is delivered.
  • Proven track record of managing and producing complex community projects on time and to budget.
  • Proven track record of managing and recruiting volunteers, developing engaging volunteer roles, and an eagerness to keep up to date with developments within the sector.
  • Understanding of the potential barriers to engaging diverse and deprived inner-city communities as volunteers and participants and experience in employing strategies to overcome them.
  • Experience of using a variety of methods to evaluate the success of community and volunteering projects, including writing reports.
  • Experience of managing project budgets and managing systems for recording project expenditure.
  • Experience of creating promotional and marketing materials

Job Responsibilities

Grand Junction offers a busy heritage programme run in co-creation with the local community and volunteers. Volunteers are also able to fulfil roles in the areas of event stewarding, visitor experience, heritage tour guiding, administration, marketing, and research roles.

The Heritage and Volunteer Manager will lead the management and delivery of the Volunteer and Heritage programmes at Grand Junction. You will be responsible for managing the volunteering offer to create a successful volunteering experience. You will work with volunteers and the local community to manage an eclectic, high-quality heritage offer, suitable to the needs of the local community.

You will inspire local people to get involved and ensure that there is sufficient training and development opportunities for them.

Your particular focus will be on the You Are Here project. The project has multiple strands and focuses on using digital outputs to explore the heritage of local people.

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How to Apply

Application process
To apply please complete the application form and equality and diversity form and return to [email protected]. Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
We welcome you to contact us if you require special arrangements or reasonable adjustments to be made to enable your application due to disability. Please contact us directly for further information or to arrange an informal conversation about the role: [email protected]
The closing date for this post is 10 am on Monday 9 June.
If shortlisted interviews will be held on 16 or 17 June.

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