Programme Manager

Programme Manager x 2
Estates and Capital Projects
41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)”
Permanent
£58,162 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 05 September 2025

About the role:

The British Museum is proud to be one of the world’s most visited museums. In 2024, its home in Camden received 6.5 million visitors, more than any other museum in the UK. The Museum has deep and wide-ranging partnerships with museums, schools and communities in every corner of the UK and on every continent.

Against this backdrop, the British Museum is now undergoing an extraordinary transformation, both physical and intellectual. We have built a new state of the art research centre in Reading, begun work on a new energy centre that will help us in our drive to become net zero, and we have just appointed world-renowned architect Lina Ghotmeh to rejuvenate and redevelop our Western Range – accounting for over a third of our galleries.

This will be the biggest building project the Museum has undertaken since the Victorian era - indeed it will be one of the biggest and most exciting cultural renovations in the world. And that makes it a uniquely exciting time to join the Museum.

And while the physical transformation will be spectacular in its own right, it is done in the service of a wider intellectual transformation. Alongside redesigning our galleries, and rethinking how we display the collection, we are documenting and digitising our entire collection and expanding our national and international loans programme. Taken together we are determined to make our collection the most accessible, used and enjoyed of any in the world.

The British Museum is seeking to appoint two Programme Managers (within the Estates and Capital Project department) to lead on the programme management of major capital projects within a Grade I listed building, to time and budget, whilst keeping the Museum open to millions of visitors per year and supporting the institution-wide transformation underway.

Projects range from significant Masterplan projects, including the Western Range, high-profile front-of-house projects, to building and MEP infrastructure renewal and replacement, all to a high standard. The Programme Manager will work closely with senior stakeholders to lead and manage the project teams responsible for planning and delivering capital projects.

As a globally recognised institution, the British Museum is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity, and therefore strongly encourages applications from individuals belonging to underrepresented groups within the built environment.

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