Young Sounds UK is recruiting a Lead Facilitator to join our team. The Lead Facilitator will play a central role in establishing, piloting and growing the Young Sounds Discover Secondary training offer. Helping educators identify musical talent and potential in all young people, through working with music technology in electronic and Black-British music.

28 hours per month (£44 per hour).
A minimum of six days per year (£400 per day).
Initial 12-month contract to be extended by mutual agreement.

The Lead Facilitator is a senior creative practitioner who will play a central role in establishing, piloting and growing the Young Sounds Discover Secondary training offer. Discover exists to make music education fairer by helping educators identify musical talent and potential in all young people, through the 8 Facets of Musical Potential and the programme’s underpinning pedagogical principles. Discover Secondary extends this approach to secondary-aged young people working with music technology in electronic and Black-British music.

Discover Secondary is grounded in EQUALIZE, an AHRC-funded research project led by Young Sounds UK in partnership with the Black Music Research Unit (University of Westminster). Working directly with secondary-aged young people in Bradford and Birmingham, we investigated how electronic and Black-British music can re-engage students in music and reveal musical potential that traditional curricula often overlook. Its findings provide the evidence base for the Discover Secondary training model that this role will help to develop and deliver.

As a new strand of the programme, the role has a significant initial focus on development: working closely with the Programme Manager to design, test and refine the training model and its supporting resources before it enters wider delivery. As the offer establishes, the Lead Facilitator will work with the Programme Manager to recruit, train and lead a new team of associate facilitators – delivering high-quality training sessions themselves, modelling best practice, and supporting the team to deliver consistently and confidently. They will also contribute to the programme’s quality assurance and evaluation processes.

For more information visit youngsounds.org.uk/discover-secondary-lead-facilitator/