Schools & Projects Leader

Black Lives In Music; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

Are you an experienced classroom music leader with the skills to inspire teachers to deliver engaging co-curricular learning and lead an outstanding programme of special projects and events across Merton’s maintained schools?

Role Summary

Following the retirement of a longstanding colleague, Merton Music Foundation (MMF) is looking for someone to lead on curriculum support and liaison across the borough’s fifty-four maintained primary, secondary and special schools as well as its alternative provisions. This senior middle-leadership post will join the Safeguarding Team as a Deputy DSL and be responsible for line management of MMF’s In2Music Curriculum Leader as well as overseeing planning and delivery of the Foundation’s busy calendar of special projects and events for schools.

Our Vision

Our vision is a borough where music resonates along the corridors of every school and echoes throughout the community – a place of aspiration, inclusion and ambition that supports every child’s creativity. The Schools & Projects Leader supports co-curricular music provision as an active and visible presence in schools across our borough through networking, curriculum planning, observation & feedback, project planning, fundraising and delivering CPD/training.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

You will be an excellent classroom practitioner with significant teaching experience and the ability to plan ambitious programmes of activity, coordinating with a wide group of school staff and local community partners. You will have strong IT and organisational skills and will be a clear communicator. We are open to applicants from a wide range of musical backgrounds and would be particularly interested in hearing from applicants with additional experience of either choral leadership, SEND music-making and/or a piano teaching.

• Community
• Development
• Education
• Programming

Location

London

Contract Type

Full Time (applications for Part Time - 0.8, and job share roles will also be considered)

Apply by

Mon 9 Mar, 2026