Details:
Location:
GreenwichCategory:
ExhibitionsDesign
Salary:
£42,000Contract type:
Contract PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02083128565Exhibition and Spatial Designer
About us
Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.
The Role
We're seeking a creative Exhibition and Spatial Designer with a passion for the design of narrative environments to work at a national museum with very high standards of design and visitor experience. This is a central role in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team which also includes Graphic Design and Digital specialists. The Exhibition and Spatial Designer reports to the Design Manager who runs the studio within the wider Exhibitions and Design department led by the Head of Exhibitions and Design.
The primary responsibility of the Exhibition and Spatial Designer is to create interpretative 3D design for galleries, exhibitions, and displays. They will also be required to work on other public-facing spatial requirements such as interior design, furniture design and point-of-sale design. They will collaborate and coordinate design information with external design consultants such as lighting designers, graphic designers, wayfinding and AV specialists.
The successful candidate will support the maintenance of existing galleries and the fabric of Royal Museums Greenwich’s diverse sites, which include a historic ship and many listed buildings, including two Scheduled Monuments. They will lead projects through their full lifecycle, from concept development to production, installation, and maintenance, ensuring spaces are innovative, sustainable, enriching, inclusive, and accessible.
The role requires close collaboration with internal teams, external contractors, and project partners, contributing to multiple projects while maintaining the Museum’s high design standards. Experience of acting as lead designer, following RIBA stages, and guiding the overall creative direction of a project in collaboration with other design specialists is essential.
This is a full time, permanent role in Band 4 - Senior Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management, although due to the nature of the role, some flexibility may be required.
Salary: £42,000 per annum
We encourage you to read the full job description and person specification before applying for this role.
Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.
Interviews are pencilled in for w/c Monday 10 November.
Benefits
We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme plus life cover, 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 1 year) plus bank holidays, 40% discount in our cafés and 30% discount in our shops, a range of interest-free loans including: season/travel tickets, bike and bike equipment, Gym or Leisure membership plus individual learning; training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options.
EDI
Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.
We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.