Curriculum Lead, Arts Education Initiative (Consultant) at The Pharo Foundation

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and facilitate curriculum development workshops with founders, advisors, faculty, and key stakeholders.
• Identify and develop 2-3 short courses ready for launch in the near term, designed to build early audience, test programme assumptions, and demonstrate momentum to partners and funders.
• Design a high-level curriculum framework and programme architecture for the school.
• Define learning pathways, programme sequencing, modules, and learning outcomes.
• Support the integration of entrepreneurship, innovation, and professional practice across programmes.
• Advise on pedagogical approaches, studio-based learning models, and student experience design.
• Translate workshop outcomes into clear curriculum documentation and implementation roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with the operations and leadership teams on workshop planning, coordination, documentation, and delivery.
• Provide recommendations on academic structure, assessment approaches, and interdisciplinary learning integration.
• Benchmark relevant global and African creative education models to inform curriculum development.

Deliverables:

• Facilitated curriculum development workshops and summary reports.
• Document a complete and structured curriculum framework and programme structure, including content outline, content mapping and lesson structure.
• 2–3 short course outlines ready for immediate delivery, including programme description, target audience, duration, and learning outcomes.
• Learning pathways and module sequencing recommendations.
• Proposed pedagogical and assessment approach.
• Curriculum roadmap and implementation recommendations.
• Final consolidated curriculum development report.

Ideal Candidate:

• Strong academic and/or professional background in education, curriculum development, learning design, or creative education.
• Proven experience developing curricula, academic programmes, or learning frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating workshops, co-creation sessions, or collaborative learning engagements.
• Familiarity with creative education, studio-based learning, interdisciplinary programmes, or alternative education models.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience working within arts, culture, fashion, design, or creative industries is highly desirable.
• An understanding of African creative ecosystems and cultural contexts is strongly preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Duration:

• The consultancy is expected to run for approximately 12–16 weeks. It will be structured in two phases, with a review checkpoint between phases to assess progress, alignment, and continuation of the engagement.

Reporting Line:

• The consultant will work closely with the Arts Education Initiative team and report to the designated Operations Lead at Pharo Foundation.