Trainee Science Explainer

UK, England, Newcastle upon Tyne

Job Type: Part Time
Contract Type: Casual
New Starter: £6.74ph; Permanent: £8.08 after completion of training and 12 months continuous service
Thursday 4th December 2014

The Centre for Life is a pioneering science village in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne. Life is an independent and self-funding charitable trust. We receive no public funding.

Our mission is to ignite and nurture a curiosity in everyone for science, technology, engineering and maths and encourage the next generation of STEM professionals. We support world-class science in the region and make a positive economic, social and cultural contribution to North East England and its communities.

Life Science Centre, which opened in May 2000, is the only purpose-built Science Centre in the north, attracting over 200,000 visitors per year. Life's varied and eclectic public engagement programme attracts a broad audience including families, adults, pre-schoolers and teenagers. Life also has the biggest schools' science workshop programme in any European museum or Science Centre.

Assisting in the promotion and enhancement of the Centre for Life, your role will be to make a visit to Life and learning about science, interesting, exciting, entertaining, engaging and fun.

You will deliver informal education to a wide range of audiences.

Your role will include teaching hands-on science workshops to school groups, delivering scripted science and planetarium shows to the general public and explaining the exhibition in terms of its context, how it works, its purpose, its place in history and current and future links to other exhibits.

You will also ensure that Health and Safety standards are met at all times.

The successful candidate will have at least a 2:1 degree or equivalent qualification in a STEM subject with a broad general STEM education at A level.

A Full, clean driving License is essential due to Educational outreach that you will partake in.

Hours will vary according to business demand.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check (formerly CRB). Details of our DBS policy are available on request.

To apply for this vacancy, please send a letter of application and current CV to
Claire Adams, Corporate Services Director,
International Centre for Life Trust,
Management Suite,
Times Square,
Newcastle upon Tyne

or by email to Claire.adams@life.org.uk