Full job descriptionArtist/Producer – Early Years
Salary: £30,000, per annum, pro rata (£11,997 per annum actual for 2 days per week)
Contract: Fixed term 1 year (September 2026-September 2027)
Hours: Part-time, 2 days per week (with regular Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
Location: Central Oxford, OX1
About the Employer
Our client is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces with an international reputation for innovation and ambition. Their gallery presents a programme of changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art each year, coupled with an extensive programme of education, events and performance projects involving several thousand people of all ages and backgrounds.
About You and The Role
The Artist/Producer is responsible for the planning, preparation and delivery of this organisation’s early years projects including their co-learning, sensory play project Make Play, holiday workshops and welcome tours and activities for primary schools, charities, and community groups.
This organisation’s early years programme recognises and celebrates children, as active participants in our shared society. Established in 2017, Make Play is one of the core strands of their programmes for children aged 6 months to 5 years. It provides a child-led creative space for babies and children to explore, play and learn in a safe and stimulating environment.
The Artist/Producer takes a lead role in developing activities in response to the temporary exhibitions programme, working closely with the Curator Communities, Practice & Participation to ensure a holistic and well-curated offer throughout the year.
This organisation’s early years programme engages more than 1,000 children, parents, and carers each year through regular sessions at the gallery and offsite with local partners.
Key Responsibilities
*Workshop and Programme Delivery
The successful candidate will have a minimum of three years’ experience of working in Early Years education, strong understanding of Early Years pedagogy, child-centred and inclusive practice, experience working with artists, facilitators, or creative practitioners and experience of delivering projects and workshops in art galleries and museums with demonstrable experience of working with diverse materials and media.
They will have confidence managing multiple projects, partnerships, and delivery locations, be self-motivated and collaborative with excellent communication and relationship building skills, good IT, administrative and organisational skills.
The ability to work weekends, knowledge of equality, diversity, and inclusion practices and procedures and a DBS check and training in safeguarding are also required. First Aid training is desirable.
Benefits
An auto-enrolment pension scheme is in place with Legal & General. Under pension auto enrolment legislation, the employee will pay 5% (before tax relief) and the employer will pay 3% of qualifying earnings to the Legal and General plan. A salary sacrifice scheme is available after 3 months employment.
Employees are entitled to a staff discount in the Shop and Café. There is an Employee Assistance Programme through Gemelli, and a series of discounts and salary sacrifice schemes through BHN Extras.
Applications must be received by 9.00am Monday 29 June 2026
Initial interviews planned for 14, 15, and 16 July 2026
Ideal start date in the w/c 24 August 2026
Interested?
To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.
This employer is committed to creating equality of opportunity for all and they value diversity in their team. As part of their Anti-racism Action Plan, they welcome applications from people from the Global Majority who are under-represented in the workforce in the sector.
No agencies please.