Learning Officer

London Borough of Hounslow; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

London Borough of Hounslow is seeking a Learning Officer to design, deliver and administer schools and family learning programmes at Hogarth’s House and Boston Manor House. You will support in training Visitor Experience Assistants, manage bookings and coordinate learning activities across the two historic sites, contributing to engaging educational experiences for residents and visitors.

The role sits in the Culture Team; you’ll collaborate with staff and volunteers, adapt programs for diverse

Qualifications

• An interest in schools, families and young people’s learning in a heritage setting.
• A calm, adaptable and flexible approach to work.
• Ability to maintain an organised set of booking and administrative systems.
• Ability to work with a wide range of delivery stakeholders from freelancers and placement students to staff and volunteers.
• Having an open and creative approach to designing and delivering activities.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and administer schools and family learning programmes at Hogarth’s House and Boston Manor House.
• Assist in training and supporting Visitor Experience Assistants to deliver learning activities.
• Create and coordinate learning elements of public programmes such as tours and workshops.
• Support in training and directing the work of Visitor Experience Assistants and volunteers to facilitate bookings.
• Collaborate with the Culture Team to ensure engagement and accessibility of learning for diverse audiences.

Skills

Interest in schools and families' p”“-

Calm and flexible work style

Booking and admin systems

Stakeholder collaboration

Creative activity design

Job description

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Job details

Salary £35,628 - 37,794 per annum.

Package Full-time, Fixed-term Contract and Secondment Opportunity until 31/12/2027, 36 hours per week. Location: Boston Manor House and Hogarth’s House.

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the historic houses team as Learning Officer. In this role, you’ll assist in the design, delivery and administration of schools and family learning programmes at the London Borough of Hounslow’s two historic houses, Hogarth’s House and Boston Manor House.

This role will deliver learning elements of the public programmes such as tours and workshops and will assist in training and supporting Visitor Experience Assistants to do the same. The role will also assist in training and directing the work of Visitor Experience Assistants and volunteers to facilitate bookings for the learning programmes at both sites.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

This role sits within the Culture Team as part of the Historic Houses sub team. The Historic Houses Team manage the two London Borough of Hounslow’s two owned and operated historic houses, Boston Manor House and Hogarth’s House. This team is responsible for the care of these buildings and their collections as well as the public programmes for each site.

This role reports directly to the Learning Managers, who report to the Historic Houses Senior Manager, the head of the Historic Houses team.

About You

• 1. An interest in schools, families and young people’s learning in a heritage setting.
• 2. A calm, adaptable and flexible approach to work.
• 3. Ability to maintain an organised set of booking and administrative systems.
• 4. Ability to work with a wide range of delivery stakeholders from freelancers and placement students to staff and volunteers.
• 5. Having an open and creative approach to designing and delivering activities.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th December 2026.