Name: Visit York
Price range: $

About The Job

Join our team!

Uncomfortable York is a public engagement organization dedicated to highlighting the diverse and often overlooked histories of our city. We run unique walking tours and events that diversify the stories told about history while exploring the complex legacies of class, race, gender, disability, inequality, and empire that have shaped the beautiful York landscape.

Our Mission: We exist to generate engaging, nuanced conversations about history. By combining rigorous research with public performance, we bring stories traditionally left out of the narrative to the forefront.

Who We Are: Our team is composed of passionate students and researchers committed to social impact. We believe that history should be accessible, honest, and thought-provoking.

Working With Us: We prioritize an inclusive and supportive work environment.

Flexibility: We work remotely and flexibly, accommodating various working styles and academic schedules.
Community: We are a team of intellectually curious individuals seeking to bring about positive change.
Growth: Working with us is a unique opportunity to gain experience in public engagement, research, communication, digital humanities, marketing and sales, public speaking, and a wide range of other practical skills.

Uncomfortable Tour Guide

📍 Oxford • Cambridge • York

We are hiring new guides who will be trained to deliver our specialised Uncomfortable Tours.

Are you passionate about addressing systems of inequity?
Do you enjoy meeting new people?
Do you love to teach?

Join our guiding team!

Our unique tours are designed to generate dialogue within the group of attendees, with guides delivering relevant information about complex historical topics, and then facilitating a discussion between tour participants.

We are looking for friendly and knowledgeable communicators who are committed to bringing academic research to a public audience in engaging ways. We seek guides who can inspire critical thinking and who are dedicated to facilitating sensitive, productive, and open discussion about complex topics including racism, gender discrimination, sexuality, class inequalities, legacies of slavery, historical violence, and systems of inequality.

The guide acts as a mediator as well as a tour guide, performing an essential role in creating a safe and productive space for participants to share their opinions during the tour.

The Full Job Description for the role is available here.

Deadline for Applications: Friday 20 February, 12PM Noon

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