Join our team
At the English Folk Dance and Song Society we offer a diverse range of employment across the organisation, including within the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and at Cecil Sharp House.
We are committed to managing a fair and equitable recruitment and selection process. We welcome applications from everyone who matches each role’s required skills and interests.
We do not accept speculative enquiries about employment.
Unless otherwise indicated, our posts are based at Cecil Sharp House in London.
Education Manager
This post, for an experienced and skilled music education manager, is a key role within the EFDSS Education team. The job involves managing, devising, initiating, and delivering projects, classes and courses using folk song, music, dance, and other art forms with diverse groups of adults, families, children and young people in formal education, informal learning, and community settings.
Salary: £35,800.89
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Closing date for completed applications: Thursday 27 June, 9am
Zoom Q&A session - if you want to learn more about EFDSS and ask questions about us and the role, please sign up to our Zoom Q & A session with the current Education Manager, Charlotte Turner, and the Programme Manager for the National Youth Folk Ensemble, Hannah Mears-Young (neither of whom form part of the selection panel). The session will take place on Monday 17 June, 5pm. Sign up here.
Job Description and Person Specification (PDF)
How to apply
Please complete the following:
- Equal Opportunities Monitoring
All applicants need to complete the online Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form which is not seen by the selection panel. - Application
There are two options for you to submit your application. Please chose whichever suits you best:
a) Full Application Form
OR
b) Short Application Form, CV, and written supporting statement (telling us why you want to do the job and how you consider you’re suitable for this post – detailing your relevant work / voluntary experience, training, qualifications and qualities).
Applications should be submitted via email to [email protected]
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
Voluntary Trustees/Directors
We are seeking three voluntary Trustees/Directors to join our Board, with the potential for one of the new appointees to become the Deputy Chair.
This is a wonderful opportunity for the right people to work with this unique organisation and support our development as the national development organisation for the folk arts.
We are particularly interested in applicants with financial, HR or business/entrepreneurial knowledge and experience – together with a passion to take the folk arts of England to an ever-wider audience.
Can you help us to develop our incredible organisation, and as we take the next steps in building our national recognition?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Positive Action for a Diverse Workforce
At the English Folk Dance and Song Society we strive to be an Equal Opportunities employer and to ensure that no person is unfairly discriminated against in our recruitment and selection policies and procedures. We are committed to diversifying our workforce to better represent society and we follow guidance on positive action in recruitment from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Equality Act 2010.
We particularly welcome applicants from minoritised ethnicities, and those who are disabled, as these are under-represented in our organisation and the wider folk music workforce.
All disabled applicants who fulfil the Person Specification and Qualities criteria will be called for an interview. Please make clear in your application if you consider yourself disabled. (You may find it helpful to refer to the definition at gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010.)
Please see Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to learn more about our commitments and actions to diversifying our work and staff.