Brief for Virtual Reality Experience Producer at Dover Museum
An exciting opportunity to work with Screen South's Accentuate programme to create a Virtual Reality Experience.
Apply by
9am, Tuesday 6th May 2025
Project Timeline
May 2025 - July 2025
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Virtual Reality Experience Producer to work with Screen South’s Accentuate Programme to create a Virtual Reality Experience in collaboration with Dover Museum for Curating Visibility.
Background to the Project
Accentuate challenges perceptions of disability by providing groundbreaking opportunities for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people to participate and lead within the cultural sector. Accentuate is one of Screen South’s portfolio of programmes, Screen South is a Folkestone based culture development agency, with digital creativity at its heart/
We have been awarded an Arts Council England grant to deliver the landmark project Curating Visibility. Curating Visibility follows the acclaimed Curating for Change programme and continues to tackle the serious under-representation of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the museum workforce, collections, interpretation and audiences, through the creation of 6 Curatorial Fellowships for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people at Partner Museums across England. Fellows will gain the experience they need to kick start or progress their curatorial careers, ensuring that those with lived experience of disability are at the heart of museum research and interpretation. Fellows will also work with local communities to research hidden disability history stories and share these through highly accessible public-facing interventions which have a strong digital focus. We have garnered a reputation as providing leading guidance and advocacy for best practice for museums to engage with and support disabled people, through our sector forums and action plans. We will continue to act as a resource for the sector.
We have 6 curatorial Fellows in post across England. This brief will specifically work closely with the Curating Visibility Curatorial Fellow at Dover Museum.
Scope of Works
The digital production company/freelancer will be overseen by the Head of Accentuate and will work closely with the Curating Visibility Project Managers (job share) to ensure consistency, high quality, and digital accessibility. The following tasks need to be completed:
- Produce a virtual environment in collaboration with Dover Museum’s Curating Visibility Fellow through idea creation and development in a series of online meetings.
- Ensure Curating Visibility Dover Museum community co-producers and Curating Visibility Fellow can contribute their thoughts and ideas as part of the digital piece to ensure their input into the design and content representation.
- Develop a prototype for user testing with disabled users to refine an access-first approach to digital content creation.
- Implement access features such as BSL and Audio Description where needed.
- Complete post-production on all content.
- Act as an additional knowledge bank on digital good practice.
- Install and provide training for ongoing maintenance of this piece onsite at Dover Museum.
- Maintain focus on the audience and particularly on access.
- At least one further contact post-install for feedback.
- [Hire of Virtual Reality headset]
Skills and experience required
- Experience in digital production in the heritage/culture sector and a broad range of understanding of digital media.
- Experience of working with project teams and preferably with disabled people and will therefore be a skilled communicator.
- Able to evidence their work on embedding accessibility on previous projects.
- Experience in Virtual Reality production, editing and presentation.
Fee and timescale
The total fee for the role is £10,600 (inclusive of VAT) to cover all costs.
The project timeline will run from May 2025 to July 2025.
A full timetable of work will be developed with the successful applicant and the final agreement of a payment schedule will be based upon this.
Key Information
Apply by
9am, Tuesday 6th May 2025
Project Timeline
May 2025 - July 2025
Total Fee
£10,600 (inclusive of VAT & all costs)
How to Apply
Please send a CV and showreel with covering letter in which you outline how you would address the brief. Please provide examples of previous experience where you have produced Virtual Reality experiences, your methodology and how you would approach access features, with a full costing of your time.
Alternatively, you can apply via creating a short film. Please cover the following questions:
- How you fit the brief including examples of previous experience of creating Virtual Reality experiences.
- Your approach to creating accessible features required by audiences.
- Your wider digital experience and knowledge, such as awareness of innovation in museums or interpretation.
- A full methodology of how you expect to work with us and associated costing for this.
Please also include your contact information in your covering letter/e-mail.
Before appointment the successful candidate will be required to provide two referees.
You will also need your own professional indemnity insurance or liability insurance and have a current DBS.
Applications should be made electronically, and sent to:
Esther Fox, Head of the Accentuate Programme
E-mail: info@accentuateuk.org
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 6th May 2025, 9am
Contact us
If you would like to discuss this opportunity with a member of the Accentuate team then please contact us on:
info@accentuateuk.org
01303 259 777
