Rachel Moss is an accomplished, professional and highly motivated senior arts educator and evaluator. She has over twenty years' experience of working in a wide range of museums and arts organisations, ranging from small independent galleries to National Museums, with both formal and informal education groups.
Rachel worked for nine years as the Young People's Programmes Manager at the National Portrait Gallery with young people aged 14 to 21 outside of school hours. This included setting up a Youth Forum, training up individuals to deliver young people-led tours, and carrying out outreach with youth groups such as LGBTQ+ young people, young parent groups and homeless youth organisations. Following this, she worked at the South London Gallery as the Community Consultation Manager (freelance) for the former Peckham Road Fire Station development, and then as the Head of Education (maternity).
Since April 2017, Rachel has been freelancing for a wide variety of clients including A New Direction, Art on the Underground, Empathy Museum, Freelands Foundation, Group for Education in Museums, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Little Angel Theatre, New Contemporaries, Royal Academy of Arts, Southbank Centre, Tate, The British Museum, The Courtauld Gallery, The Foundling Museum, The Photographers' Gallery, Wellcome Collection and Whitechapel Gallery. Rachel’s current work focuses on supporting under-represented early career individuals into the sector workforce, which incorporates mentoring with organisations like Arts Emergency and University of the Arts London.
Rachel is able to use her own initiative creatively and work as part of a team, as well as having proven leadership skills. She is an effective communicator at all levels with internal staff, a diverse audience and external partners. Rachel is highly confident at delivering presentations, and experienced in both advocacy and marketing. She has excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure. Rachel is computer literate using a range of software including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. She is a qualified teacher and has an enhanced DBS check.
Other staff - Rachel works closely with other hand-picked freelancers including designers, artists and educators to offer a range of services, tailored to meet the specific needs of the client.
GDPR - In line with regulations from the end of May 2018, Rachel takes personal privacy seriously and liaises closely with the organisations that she is working for to make sure that she is clear on their privacy statements and personal data processes. She is also doing her own data audit, and makes it clear to project participants signing release forms how they can remove their consent if they change their minds in future.