Helen O'Hara

Experience

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  THE LIVING ARCHIVE PROJECT

  Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

  Education Officer, Great War Remembered MK Project
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  Living Archive MK

  Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  Artswork Museums Learning MK Project Manager
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  Helen O'Hara Heritage and Arts Learning

  Jul 2014 - Dec 2018

  Freelance schools session leader for MK City Discovery Centre on Bancroft Roman villa, Stone Age technology and Anglo-Saxon writing and runes.Temporary Administrator for Living Archive MK on Heritage Open Days evaluation in Milton Keynes in 2018 Heritage and arts consultancy projects, specialising in National Lottery Heritage-funded project evaluation, display copy-writing, co-ordination of volunteers' research and learning programmes.Worked for Living Archive MK on delivery of family learning trail, displays, schools resources and sessions for Canal and River Trust at Soulbury Three Locks (2019) and for Heritage MK consortium of 5 museums and archives on HLF Evaluation and Legacy Reports (2016 - 17) - see examples.

  • Self-employed Consultant and Freelance

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Consultant and Freelance

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2018
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  Milton Keynes Gallery

  Sept 2015 - Oct 2015

  Arts Award adviser mentor
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  STACCess:MK Project, Bletchley Park

  Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

  Project evaluation consultant
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  MOLA Headland Infrastructure

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  Senior Community Archaeologist, A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme

  My role as Senior Community Archaeologist for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon road scheme in this commercial archaeology partnership involved research, delivery and evaluation of schools-based sessions, delivery of a series of popular blogs for the website, events including interpretation trailer at community festivals, open days on live excavation sites, conference displays and CIfA presentation and mentoring early career archaeologists to be STEM Ambassadors to engage local young people in archaeology as a career. Show less

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  Simply Education

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2018

  Supply teacher, primary
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  FARMLAND MUSEUM(THE)

  Jan 2019 - Nov 2020

  Museum Officer

  Museum Officer with responsibility for rural life collections, display, volunteer coordination, health & safety, interpretation, schools, family learning and events programming.

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  Museum of London

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2024

  Museum Development Officer, central and east London

  Supporting non-national museums across central and east London with emergency funding, governance development and financial resilience. Advice and policy reviews for museums applying for Arts Council England's Accreditation Standard. coordinating professional networks and skills-sharing sessions to support the museum workforce. New role in editing and distributing MD London's online Newsletter, website editing and digital Comms through Twitter @LobdonMusDev.

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  John Bunyan Museum and Library

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  Joint Curator
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  Bedford Creative Arts

  Dec 2021 - Aug 2022

  Culture Challenge Manager
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  Museum Development South East

  Aug 2024 - now

  Museum Development Officer Oxon & Bucks

  One to one support and advice to non national museums across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Wider advisory, development and grant support role in team of 17 across SE region's non national museums.