Learning Program Facilitator

Our vision is of a library for all in a changing world.
- An exciting opportunity for highly motivated individuals to join an energetic and driven team
- 6 x casual roles based in Melbourne CBD
- Attractive VPS 3.1 hourly rates between $37.15 - $41.13 + 10% superannuation

About the opportunity
Reporting to the Production Manager, your key accountabilities will include:

- Ensuring excellent delivery of a range of new and existing audience engagement programs, designed for school groups, early years and school-aged audiences
- Presenting a range of educational and learning events, workshops and activities to school-aged audiences including school groups
- Delivering a seamless program experience to engage and educate early years and school-aged audiences
- Providing excellent customer service
- Resolving operational or program maintenance issues
- Contributing to a process of continuous improvement by providing feedback to the Experience Design and Programming teams on audience response to the programs and through internal process reviews

For more information about the role, please refer to the position description.

About you
- Experience working with children in an educational setting
- An understanding of teaching and learning principles, practices and standards associated with delivering and monitoring ways in which target audiences respond to the programs
- Insights into issues and trends within the cultural and education sectors and knowledge of the diverse needs and expectations of young Victorians, teachers and students
- Experience in creative learning facilitation (highly desirable)
- Current Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) registration (desirable)
- Experience working in a museums or cultural institution (desirable)
- Excellent event management skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)
- A collaborative problem solver with a creative flair
- A proactive team player with good cultural awareness
- A recognised tertiary qualification or equivalent professional experience in primary or secondary education
- A valid Working with Children Check card or ability to obtain one prior to commencement

State Library Victoria promotes a workplace that actively seeks to welcome and value the unique contributions of all people. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from cultural and linguistical diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ and people of all ages and abilities to apply.

Culture and benefits
We are committed to developing and supporting a high performing workforce and an inclusive work environment. We offer attractive rewards and benefits to employees, including:

- Competitive salary and 10% superannuation
- Career advancement opportunities across a range of disciplines including information management, conservation, preservation, digitisation, curatorship, philanthropy, communications, information technology, strategy, policy, governance, finance and procurement, human resources and more
- Transparent performance framework that allows you to approach your work with confidence in how you are tracking, working to professional development plans agreed on by you and your manager
- Professional development opportunities including assignment and secondment opportunities, internal and external learning opportunities and Victorian Public Sector employee networks (e.g. diversity & inclusion groups, new ways of working group, etc)
- Generous leave entitlements including 20 days of annual leave, 18 days of paid personal leave, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, purchased leave, study leave, multicultural leave, family violence leave and more
- Flexible working arrangements including changes in hours of work, patterns of work and work area
- Salary packaging including salary sacrifice arrangements
- Discount on public transport
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs including discount on private health insurance, employee assistance program and annual flu vaccination

Find out more about our inclusion, diversity and access initiatives.

About us
State Library Victoria is overseen by Creative Victoria, part of the Victorian Government's Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, and reports to the Minister for Creative Industries.
It is Australia's oldest public library. Over more than 160 years, we have collected almost 5.5 million items including books, manuscripts, serials, photographs, artworks, maps and ephemera. Each year we add more than 70,000 heritage items to the Library's rich collection.
We strengthen communities and inspire participation with a full calendar of free exhibitions, events, talks, workshops and children's programming every season.
Our staff are passionate, motivated, professional, welcoming and proud to work in one of Melbourne's most prized architectural jewels and best-loved cultural icons. We treasure our rich heritage and collection, and are excited by the Library's future as