Are you an experienced classroom music leader with the skills to inspire teachers to deliver engaging co-curricular learning and lead an outstanding programme of special projects and events across Merton’s maintained schools?

Following the retirement of a longstanding colleague, Merton Music Foundation (MMF) is looking for someone to lead on curriculum support and liaison across the borough’s fifty-four maintained primary, secondary and special schools as well as its alternative provisions. This senior middle-leadership post will join the Safeguarding Team as a Deputy DSL and will be responsible for line management of MMF’s In2Music Curriculum Leader as well as overseeing planning and delivery of the Foundation’s busy calendar of special projects and events for schools.

Our vision is a borough where music resonates along the corridors of every school and echoes throughout the community – a place of aspiration, inclusion and ambition that supports every child’s creativity. The Schools & Projects Leader supports co-curricular music provision as an active and visible presence in schools across our borough through networking, curriculum planning, observation & feedback, project planning, fundraising and delivering CPD/training.

You will be an excellent classroom practitioner with significant teaching experience and the ability to plan ambitious programmes of activity, coordinating with a wide group of school staff and local community partners. You will have strong IT and organisational skills and will be a clear communicator. We are open to applicants from a wide range of musical backgrounds and would be particularly interested in hearing from applicants with additional experience of either choral leadership, SEND music-making and/or a piano teaching.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully. If you choose to apply, please ensure your application clearly outlines how you meet the suitability criteria for this post.

Merton Music Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and have made a vision commitment to being ‘an inclusive cultural organisation – not just in what we say, but also in what we do’. We believe that representation matters and actively seek to diversify our workforce at all levels of the organisation. We warmly encourage applications from historically under-represented groups, including but not limited to; members of the global majority; members of the LGBTQ+ community; people who identify as non-binary or gender queer; people with a disability; and people who are neurodivergent. The decision to appoint will be made solely based on candidate merit and business need.

We invite you to discuss the role with our Chief Executive, David, before deciding to apply. If you would like to do this, please contact: ceo@mmf.org.uk with your phone number to request a call back.

Application form

Please download and complete the Application Form (Word and Google Docs versions available).

Self-ID form

Please complete the anonymous Self Identification form for equalities monitoring.

Please send your completed Application Form as a Microsoft Word Document to:

jobs@mmf.org.uk

by 9am on Monday 9 March.

If you need any additional support or require accommodations to be made to complete your application, please contact us using the email address above.

We are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Any offer of work will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Child Barred List check, receipt of two satisfactory references, proof of residency & right to work, social media searches, verification that you are not subject to a prohibition from teaching order or disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 and – where applicable – overseas police checks.