Learning and curriculum designers for environmental charity

East London Water Park; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-led environmental charity is seeking volunteers for the role of Learning and Curriculum Designer. The position involves developing educational resources to promote environmental learning and supporting outreach efforts. Ideal candidates are experienced in curriculum design or teaching, and possess strong writing skills. This role allows for flexible involvement in shaping learning content for a biodiverse park initiative in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in curriculum design, teaching, or educational resource development.
• Ability to create engaging online learning resources and lesson plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop online learning resources for the website.
• Design lesson plans tailored for schools.
• Support outreach efforts for existing learning programs.

Skills

Curriculum design

Strong writing skills

Outdoor education

Creativity

Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Learning and curriculum designers for environmental charity role at East London Waterworks Park.

What difference will you make?

You will have a significant impact on the creation of a new biodiverse community-owned park with free access natural swimming ponds. By volunteering in this role, you will help shape the future of East London Waterworks Park as a community-led environmental learning space. This will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park.

What are we looking for?

Ideal candidates have experience in curriculum design, teaching, or educational resource development. Creativity, strong writing skills, and an understanding of outdoor or environmental education will be valuable. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role.

What will you be doing?

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that won a 2024 New London Architecture award and has raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.

We are looking for a volunteer to develop learning content and resources, such as lesson plans and educational materials, to support our environmental learning goals. This role will focus on creating school-friendly resources for our website and collaborating with educators to enhance our offerings.

The role would include

• Developing online learning resources for our website (on-going project)
• Designing or tailoring existing lesson plans and activities for schools
• Supporting the creation of ELWP’s Under 18s volunteering policy
• Supporting outreach efforts to promote ELWP’s existing learning programmes

Schools, universities and youth groups we've collaborated with include

• Waltham Forest College
• Henry Maynard Primary School, Walthamstow
• Buxton School, Leytonstone
• Kingsmead Primary School, Hackney
• Daubeney Primary School, Hackney
• UCL
• Royal College of Art
• University of Westminster
• Project Zero
• Voyage Youth
• Loyola University Chicago
• Vanderbilt University Nashville

The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.

Seniorities

• Not Applicable

Employment type

Job function

• Education and Training

Industries

• Non-profit Organizations

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