Project Manager

About the role:
To support the successful delivery of temporary exhibitions and gallery displays, including taking on responsibility for individual workstreams, and management of smaller display projects, from project inception to closure and evaluation, in line with the Museum’s goals. To deploy project management methodologies and standards to effectively manage budget, programme, risk, stakeholders, and quality measures. Managing and motivating multi-disciplinary project teams and external contractors are key aspects of this role. Successful candidates will be joining the department at an exciting time: delivering a world-class exhibitions and emerging new temporary display programmes.

We will be recruiting for two available positions.

Key areas of responsibility:
• To manage and motivate multi-disciplinary project teams to work collaboratively to deliver small exhibition and display projects to budget and programme constraints ensuring high quality outputs and contributing to the delivery of strategic targets.
• To develop and manage defined workstreams and support delivery of major exhibition and display projects, ensuring deliverables and processes are fully integrated in the wider project. In doing so, support the Senior Project Manager and the rest of the project team to achieve project objectives.
• For smaller projects, to develop and pro-actively manage project budgets, schedules, and objectives, ensuring issues and risks are appropriately monitored, mitigated and escalated. To monitor and manage a project’s critical path and project documentation and ensure the delivery of milestones.
• To plan budgets, financial estimates and resources required from internal stakeholders. To run competitive processes for contractors and external professional service providers and manage their work.

About you:
• Degree in a relevant subject.
• Experience in coordinating the delivery of public facing projects, or significant workstreams within them, involving multi-disciplined teams.
• Experience of project processes e.g. budget, risk, programme, stakeholder, issue management.
• Proven ability to build relationships across teams and departments.
• Strong and persuasive written and spoken communication skills.

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 such as Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.

You can view a selection of our impressive collection of prints and drawings in our virtual gallery.

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:
For more information about this role, please see the job description.

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details to [email protected].

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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 specifically encourage applications from candidates from ethnic minority groups who are underrepresented within our senior roles.

We offer a flexible way of working scheme 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.

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