Storybarn Assistant Manager
The Reader Closing date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026
- Full time
- £20k-£25k
- Apply now
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Job Summary
Job Description
This role is responsible for overseeing Storybarn engagement working with young people from birth to 9 years through family and school programming.
Job Requirements
- Shares The Reader's ethos, mission and values and fosters a genuine willingness to work as part of a team to help The Storybarn evolve and develop in the most exciting and positive ways
- A confident and creative approach to curate and implement a range of engagement products for a mix of audiences
- Demonstrably able to lead with prior experience in people and/or project management
- Excellent practical and organisational skills with the ability to work unsupervised and be self-motivated, keen to learn new things
- Work in an enthusiastic and positive manner, with the flexibility to work weekends on a rota basis
- Excellent knowledge of children's literature or experience of working with children in the charitable sector
- Confident with finances, spreadsheet, reports, costing all events and working with budgets
- An awareness of and active commitment to upholding our Safeguarding policies and procedures
- Experience of delivering reading and play activities to children
Job Responsibilities
- Awareness of and active commitment to upholding our safeguarding policies and procedures
- Excellent communication skills with both adults and children
- Excellent delivery skills to run exciting and engaging sessions at the Storybarn
- Be a key holder with responsibility for opening up a site building, closing down and making sure the Storybarn is secured and alarmed
- Using the templates provided by Comms team to post content on our social media platforms via Hootsuite
- Respond to messages received via social media
- Awareness and understanding of role specific IT platforms and overseeing that systems are well maintained
- Overseeing the provision of an excellent customer experience through the delivery of high quality Storybarn sessions
- Direct delivery of Storybarn sessions
- Support the Storybarn Manager with line management of the Storybarn team of (Story hunters). This includes a responsibility to conduct occasional one to ones and lead full team meetings
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Storybarn Assistant Manager
- Salary: £20k-£25k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Charity
- Role: Creative
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026
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Location:
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Job: Storybarn Assistant Manager
Job: Storybarn Assistant Manager
Organisation: The Reader
Postcode: L18 3JB
How to Apply
If you're interested in applying please visit https://www.thereader.org.uk/job/storybarn-assistant-manager/ to view a full job description. All applications must be sent to [email protected]
- Contact name: Laura Kershaw
- Contact email: [email protected]
About The Reader
We’re a national charity that wants to bring about a Reading Revolution, so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which we believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well.
Through a growing movement of 1,000 volunteers and partners, we bring thousands of people together each week to share and discuss great novels, short stories and poems. We call this Shared Reading.