Jobs
Search here for jobs across the UK’s national and major regional museums, libraries and archives.
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Royal Museums Greenwich
Royal Museums Greenwich’s Membership team has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and IT literate volunteer to help with the administration of the Membership scheme. This is especially suitable for those with an interest in Museum Development.
Date posted: 21/02/2019
Deadline: 01/03/2019
Location:
GreenwichCategory:
Fundraising / developmentSalary:
UnpaidContract type:
VoluntaryHours:
OtherTelephone:
0208 312 6543
The National Archives
The policy team has recently been refocused on our core responsibilities and reports in to the Chief Executive and Keeper. As an Information and Archives Policy Manager, you will report directly to the Head of Policy and will work with discrete audience facing teams and their external stakeholders.
Date posted: 21/02/2019
Deadline: 28/02/2019
Location:
Kew, RichmondCategory:
OtherSalary:
£36,000 - £47,997Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02083925313
Royal Museums Greenwich
We are looking for volunteers to initiate conversations with visitors at the National Maritime Museum through object handling.
Date posted: 21/02/2019
Deadline: 25/02/2019
Location:
GreenwichCategory:
Front of house/visitor servicesSalary:
UnpaidContract type:
VoluntaryHours:
OtherTelephone:
0208 312 6543
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane’s Museum is considered by many to be best house-museum in the world. A high performing Commercial team is vital to ensure the Museum becomes more self-sufficient by increasing commercial income year by year. This role will assist the Events Manager in delivering commercial activities, with a particular emphasis on tours, filming and photography.
Date posted: 20/02/2019
Deadline: 06/03/2019
Location:
LondonCategory:
EventsMarketing
Photographic
Salary:
£22,330Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
+442074404233
Imperial War Museums
The Stakeholder Relations Manager will identify, build and effectively manage key strategic stakeholders to support the delivery of IWM’s strategic aims across all five branches. The role will work across IWM to ensure that we are working strategically and to maximum effect with stakeholders locally, nationally and internationally.
Date posted: 20/02/2019
Deadline: 12/03/2019
Location:
LondonCategory:
MarketingSalary:
Circa £40,000 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7416 5000
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Retail at RBG Kew to join the shop floor management team as a Retail Supervisor.
The Retail Supervisor is part of the team running the shop floor on a day to day basis, reporting to the General Retail Manager and Assistant General Retail Manager.
Date posted: 20/02/2019
Deadline: 06/03/2019
Location:
Kew Gardens, Richmond TW9 3AECategory:
Front of house/visitor servicesSalary:
£20,176 per annum, equivalent to £10.31 per hourContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02083323141
Imperial War Museums
Learning Practitioners will deliver high quality formal and informal learning experiences for a variety of ages, across our branches. Individuals within this team will be to work in a collaborative, creative and agile way.
Date posted: 20/02/2019
Deadline: 12/03/2019
Location:
ManchesterCategory:
EducationSalary:
£18.37 an hour with a minimum call of three hours, plus 12.1% holiday allowanceContract type:
OtherHours:
OtherTelephone:
020 7416 5000
British Library
£32,000
Full Time
Fixed Term Contract for 24 months
St Pancras, London
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 03/03/2019
Location:
St Pancras, LondonCategory:
ArchivistCollections Care
Conservation
Salary:
£32,000Contract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
01937 882030
British Library
Salary £32,000
Full time
Fixed term contract for 24 months
St Pancras
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 10/03/2019
Location:
St Pancras, LondonCategory:
Collections CareConservation
Salary:
£32,000Contract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
01937 882030
Imperial War Museums
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a HR Officer to join the Imperial War Museums. You will work closely with a HR Business Partner providing comprehensive HR support in all aspects of the employee life cycle.
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 05/03/2019
Location:
LondonCategory:
HRSalary:
Circa £26,000 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7416 5000
Imperial War Museums
IWM is looking for a Disposals Manager to join our Collections Management team.
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 04/03/2019
Location:
LondonCategory:
Collections CareSalary:
£26,316 - £31,925 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7416 5000
Imperial War Museums
Are you a team player who enjoys working in a customer facing role? Apply now to join the IWM North team as a Retail and Admissions Assistant.
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 25/02/2019
Location:
IWM North - Trafford Wharf Rd, Stretford, Manchester M17 1TZCategory:
Front of house/visitor servicesSalary:
£16,494 per annum pro rataContract type:
PermanentHours:
Part timeTelephone:
020 7416 5000
National Galleries Scotland
PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (Band 6)
FULL-TIME, PERMANENT
£23,141 - £25,585 per annum
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 03/03/2019
Location:
EdinburghCategory:
AdministrationSalary:
£23,141 - £25,585Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
0131 624 6281
British Museum
In this role you will coordinate the Museum’s loan projects, whilst maintaining high standards in museum best practice, risk management, and collection care.
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 05/03/2019
Location:
BloomsburyCategory:
AdministrationCollections Care
Registrar
Salary:
£22,875 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7323 8000
Horniman Museum and Gardens
We are looking for an organised Events Assistant to support the venue hire bookings of Horniman spaces to generate income to support our work..
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 04/03/2019
Location:
Horniman Museum and GardensCategory:
EventsSalary:
£22,360 p.a. (£22,816 after probation)Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
0208 699 1872
Victoria & Albert Museum
We are seeking an Editor to join our busy Publishing department. In this role, you will project manage and deliver titles across the list, with a particular focus on the exhibition programme.
Date posted: 19/02/2019
Deadline: 20/03/2019
Location:
South Kensington, SW7 2RLCategory:
OtherSalary:
CompetitiveContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02079242937
British Library
The British Library’s ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’, is an exciting project which aims to catalogue and digitise the Library’s unique collections of early printed books from South Asia, dating from 1713 to 1914. The Project Support Officer will support the project workflows to ensure deadlines for the cataloguing, digitisation and transferring of images to the Library website are met.
Date posted: 18/02/2019
Deadline: 03/03/2019
Location:
St Pancras, LondonCategory:
AdministrationSalary:
£21,000 per annum pro rataContract type:
TemporaryHours:
Part timeTelephone:
01937882030
Imperial War Museums
We’re looking for an in-house full stack Drupal developer at Imperial War Museums (IWM). Join a small in-house digital team to maintain and develop our website using Drupal 8, working frequently with a wider pool of external developers and digital experts on larger development projects.
Date posted: 18/02/2019
Deadline: 18/03/2019
Location:
Any BranchCategory:
DigitalSalary:
Circa £40,000 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7416 5000
The Wallace Collection
We are looking to recruit a Public Programmes Coordinator for the Collection.
This post provides co-ordination and administration for public programmes and private guided tours delivered by the Museum’s Education department, including the daily programme of talks and tours, adult art classes, study days and courses as well as family workshops.
Date posted: 18/02/2019
Deadline: 10/03/2019
Location:
W1U 3BNCategory:
EducationSalary:
£21,213-£22,411 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7563 9565
The National Archives
We’re looking for an experienced software tester to help us transform our digital services.
Date posted: 18/02/2019
Deadline: 03/03/2019
Location:
Kew, RichmondCategory:
DigitalSalary:
£31,000Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 8392 5359