Skills For The Future - Orleans House Gallery

This diversity-focussed skills project provided 14 Traineeships/Apprenticeships to NEET young people entering the Museums sector.

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Orleans House Gallery was the lead organisation, partners being: Strawberry Hill House, Fulham Palace, The World Rugby Museum, Environment Trust, and Arts & Crafts Hammersmith.

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As Project Manager of the final 3 years of this 4 year project my role included:

 

- Providing 1-1 career coaching, mentorship & line management for up to 5 Apprentices/Trainees at a time​

Including: - CV, portfolio and application reviews; practice interviews; job search support; careers advice, with 100% of Trainees/Apprentices successfully moving into paid work

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- Planning & delivering careers training & dissemination conferences to share learning with the wider museum sector

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- Appearing on panel discussions

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- Curating diversity training and career development events for trainees, apprentices and partner museum staff

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- Acting as budget holder for the £241k National Lottery Heritage Funded project

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- Quarterly progress and finance reporting to NHLF

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- Overseeing the external evaluation report

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- Recruiting apprentices and trainees (with a focus on actively recruiting diverse candidates)

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- Undertaking training in: promoting diversity, unconscious bias, and Mental Health First Aid

 

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I wrote the below best practice guide for supporting diversity-focussed skills development programmes in the sector.