Directorate

Full-time (41 hours per week)

Permanent

£56,195 per annum

Application deadline: Thursday 10 October 2024

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively across the Collection Directorate, playing a pivotal role in the successful delivery of the Collection programme. Reporting directly to the Director of Collection, the postholder will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the strategies and processes related to the curation, research, and care of the Museum’s Collection. In this role, you will ensure smooth operations across teams by fostering open and inclusive working practices among the various functions within the Collection Directorate.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Planning and monitoring existing and new programmes of work, ensuring they deliver on strategic and organisational objectives.
• Working with leaders to ensure resources and budgets support effective delivery of the programme.
• Planning for future dependencies in cross-Museum projects, such as the Museum’s Masterplan, and balancing these with existing activity,
• Maintaining and managing a consistent project approach that identifies, records, and monitors risks and quality.
• Ensuring ongoing and timely reviews of strategies, policies, processes, and procedures, and supporting change where required.
• Assisting the Director of Collection with preparing papers and reports.
• Ensuring open and collaborative communication across the Collection Directorate, and diplomatically managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Other duties that ensure effective operations of the Collection Directorate, as required.

About you:

• You will be educated to a degree-level or equivalent, ideally with a recognised project management qualification.
• You will have experience managing complex projects and project management processes, including risk management and issue resolution.
• You will possess strong IT literacy and be able to write planning and strategy documents and formal reports.
• You will have prior experience managing budgets and resources to ensure effective programme delivery.
• You will be an excellent communicator and facilitator, with strong team building and management skills and an ability to communicate effectively with staff in multidisciplinary teams at all levels.
• Ideally, you will have experience working in a museum or similar organisation within the cultural sector.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.

The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays.
• Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
• Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions.
• Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections.
• Interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans.
• Professional and personal development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases.

Additional details:

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.

The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a Museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills and experience.

We offer a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you.

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.