Head of Culture Programmes

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: SB4
Salary: £52,724 per annum

About the role
Culture is one of the six British Library purposes, and this role will lead on the delivery of our Culture progarmme, including a hybrid events programmes and more ambitious and diverse exhibitions and displays for visitors of all ages onsite, across the UK, internationally, and online.

The role will be at the heart of planning new spaces for the British Library in London (as part of our St Pancras extension and permanent gallery expansion) and in Leeds (both creating new public spaces at our Boston Spa site and advancing our ambitions for a new site in the centre of the city).

You will manage an exciting programme within the Culture team that aligns to these new opportunities, and you will look for new ways to grow income streams while meeting our core public Purpose objectives.

You will be an experienced leader in the culture sector, with experience of programme planning and delivering the interpretation, design, and build of major exhibitions. You will have experience of developing events for the general public and for specific community audiences, and of transforming cultural spaces to meet new audience and user demands.

Above all, you will be passionate about our Culture purpose to engage everyone with memorable cultural experiences.

About us
We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items – a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you
- A competitive salary.
- A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
- Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
- 25 days holiday.
- Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits

Closing date: 30 June 2025
Prospective interview date: 9 July 2025

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