Job Opportunity with The Reader Organisation: Training Manager
About a trillion times more interesting, moving and unforgettable than any other professional course.
That’s what one participant said of our first five-day residential course, held at Burton Manor in September 2008.
Could you introduce people from all walks of life to the power of literature?
The Reader Organisation is looking for a Training Manager to develop a programme of training which will bring about a reading revolution. We are looking for a powerfully motivated reader, probably with a degree in English literature, definitely with a strong personal relation to books, confident about passing on their enthusiasm, love and confidence to others who may be coming to serious literature for the first time. Could you make a human connection between Chaucer’s Truth and a reading group in a drug detox clinic? Can you see the contemporary value of a novel such as Wives and Daughters or of a great poem such as Paradise Lost?
Our ‘Read to Lead’ courses regularly recruit people working in mental health, libraries, social care and the criminal justice system, as well as non-professional interested parties who know that books and reading can make an enormous difference to human life.
This is a full-time post which will require you to organise your own workload and to travel regularly around the UK. You will be based in Liverpool where you will work closely with The Reader Organisation’s Director, Dr Jane Davis.
Interviews will be held on Friday 21 November 2008. Download an application pack here.
This sounds like an amazing project and the perfect job. I wish I could apply but I am very far from the UK (also a tragedy) and I just bought a bookstore. Best of luck!
Hey Colleen! Good luck with the bookstore – let us know how it goes! Maybe you can stock The Reader magazine? Best of luck to you!
It sounds an amazing job. I can’t apply at the moment but I hope there will be new opportunities next year. Literature has a great power indeed.
As S. I. Hayakawa said once:
“In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish”.
Best wishes