Role: Assistant Youth Facilitator (Freelance)

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) will welcome in the Lunar New Year with a day of celebration on Saturday 13 February 2027 for around 16,000 visitors at the National Maritime Museum. 

There will be an exciting programme to suit all ages and interests, from family-friendly workshops, museum objects connected with East and Southeast Asia, talks, and live performances.  
  
In this role, you'll support the Lead Facilitator to deliver weekly evening workshops as part of our Young Producers programme. Taking place bi-weekly in the run-up to the festival, you’ll guide 20 young people aged 16-25 to plan and run part of the Museum’s festival programme. You and the Lead Facilitator will work with them to develop a trail, tour, performance, workshop, or something else, which amplifies and engages youth voices, to be delivered as part of the day’s events. 

You will support all aspects of workshop delivery, including on the festival day itself. Responsibilities include:

• Room, furniture, and material organisation, set-up and take-down
• Managing participant registration and their safe sign-in/release
• Liaising with parents and guardians via email, phone, and text.
• Working directly with young people to help them take part and build positive peer relationships. 
• Troubleshooting in the event of late arrivals or plans not going as expected or workshop content not landing with young people. 
• Responding to and reporting safeguarding concerns. 
• Providing individualised support for different learning styles and accessibility needs. 
• Sharing feedback and reflections with the team to help shape and improve the programme, asking for help if you're unsure, and proactively asking for tasks or training if there's something you'd like to develop 

Lunar New Year celebrations at the National Maritime Museum are community-led, by creatives of East and Southeast Asian heritage. We’re especially welcome applications from people with a personal, cultural, or community connection to Lunar New Year. 

This entry-level, supporting role, is aimed at providing a paid development opportunity for someone early-career, who would like more experience in youth and facilitation work in the heritage sector. If you haven’t done a role like this before (maybe you're starting out or maybe you're changing careers), transferable skills learned from public facing, voluntary, community, or customer service roles are welcome and valued. 

Please make sure that you can provide evidence of your eligibility to live and work in the UK before applying for a freelancer opportunity with RMG. You must be aged 18+. 

• Workshops delivered: 10 workshops from October 2026 to February 2027 – see below for workshop dates
• Workshop location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and one or two scheduled offsite visits to other London locations 
• Fee: £1645 – see below for breakdown (this is a freelance contract)
• Deadline: 9am, Thursday 10 September
• Interviews: Week beginning Monday 14 September
• Induction Day: Week beginning Monday 21 September

Essential criteria

• Interested in co-producing a creative outcome with ages 16-25 which welcomes, explores and values different lived experiences and cultural perspectives of Lunar New Year. 
• Some transferable experiences working or volunteering with children and young people in a community, customer service, school, museum, gallery or other arts/culture settings. 
• Able to identify and respond to safeguarding disclosures, concerns and managing difficult conversations with young people (training based on real-life scenarios will be provided). 
• Passionate about adapting your facilitation style to be guided by young people’s interests, ideas, and support needs, to work in a child-centered way. 
• Understand barriers that can prevent young people from accessing creative activities and museums. 
• Comfortable working in a team (you can be collaborative but also take direction). 
• You can troubleshoot if things don't go to plan, if materials or resources fail, or if a workshop or approach isn't landing with young people. 
• Holder of Enhanced DBS on the update service or consent to RMG conducting a check. 

Desirable

• Some experience producing and programme live cultural events or workshops for public audiences. 
• Some experience using visual arts or live events to interpret collections and histories.  
• Some experience of assisting artists/facilitators in workshops or learning environments. 

Young Producers session dates, running 5-6.50pm 

• Tuesday 20 October 2026 
• Tuesday 3 November  
• Tuesday 17 November 
• Tuesday 1 December 
• Tuesday 15 December 
• Tuesday 12 January 2027  
• Tuesday 26 January 
• Tuesday 9 February 
• Saturday 13 February - event day. Times to be confirmed, but likely to be 9am-5pm 
• Tuesday 23 February 

This breakdown is based on the RMG Engagement freelancer pay rates. 

This breakdown is based on the RMG Engagement freelancer pay rates. Travel expenses (up to £10 per return journey) are available for any offsite trips or visits (must provide receipt). 

£1,645 broken down as:  

• Full day workshop support (4-6 hours including set up/take down) (ex. Lunch break), £130, x10 
• Full day planning/training (4 hrs plus) (ex. Lunch break), £115, x3

To apply, please complete this online form. You can choose to write your answers or provide a video or audio recording of your answers. If you can't access the form or need to apply in a different way, contact us. 

Please read the job description and person specification before applying. Successful applicants will be invited to a 20-minute online interview, with questions sent in advance. This is the only application round. 

If you have any questions about the youth programme or application process, including if you’d like to discuss reasonable adjustments, access requirements, or applying in a different format, please contact us. 

For Royal Museums Greenwich Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement, please visit our website for more information. 

Email: Youngpeople@rmg.co.uk

Text/phone: 07907 711159

Your question will be handled by Amy, our Youth Programme Producer. Amy's pronouns are she/they. If Amy is on leave or unavailable, your question may be handled by Trudie, Senior Manager: Partnerships and Public Engagement.