Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.
Heritage lives in places and people, memories and stories, artefacts, and traditions. It can connect us all to the past, and to each other. It can make us happier, strengthen every community, and help shape society for the better. Everybody should be able to enjoy the benefits it brings.
As a charity we care for over a million objects from over 400 sites across every part of England, from international icons to local treasures, the neolithic to the cold war.
We seek to share their stories and find new ways for everybody to enjoy, learn, play, and create.
We are looking for a highly experienced museum professional to lead a team of regional curators in developing the object collections, ensuring both team and collection are integral in the success of the charity.
The Benefits
- Salary from £47,195, depending on skills, experience and location
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata, rising to 28 days after 3 years
- Matched pension contributions up to 10%
- Subscriptions to professional bodies
- Free access to all English Heritage sites for you and up to six friends and family members
- 25% discount in our shops and cafes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- Options to buy additional leave
- An inclusive working atmosphere everybody is supported from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs
- Opportunities to go to some of our great live music and history events
In this exciting new role of Senior Curator of Collections - North and West, you will bring our curators across the north and west regions to form a unified team. Your team will deliver exemplary research, craft compelling narratives and showcase our collections in both digital and on-site environments.
As Senior Curator of collections, you will work closely with regional stakeholders to set regional strategy and planning. You will lead on aspects of our national research agenda, agree regional research approaches and develop your own areas of expertise.
With your team, you will ensure close collaboration with Collections Management and Conservation colleagues helping to prioritise care of the collections. You will join with historians and interpretation colleagues to generate collection focussed content to meet our goals of widening audiences and deepening their experience.
You will bring your experience to agreed project work, the curation of key properties and to specified assemblages.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a proven ability in managing and inspiring a team of museum professionals in delivering their potential and that of their collections. You will be able to demonstrate extensive experience in collections research and its outcomes, in leading on exhibition work and across a wide range of collections-based engagement.
You will be an excellent communicator with the confidence and ability to represent the charity externally and cultivate effective internal and external stakeholder relationships and collaborations.
This role can be worked flexibly either from home or based at one of our sites or offices across the country, although you will required to work from regional offices in both York and Bristol. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Interviews will be held in the week commencing 26th January at our office in Bristol.
Please note; due to the responsibilities and requirements of this role, successful applicants will be required to undergo a basic DBS check, any employment offer will be contingent on this.
If you would like to talk to us e.g. about workplace adjustments or working patterns, please contact Kevin Booth, Head Curator of Collections. No agencies please.
Find out more about us and what we do: You can also meet some of our people and hear about why they enjoy working with us:
Everybody's welcome at English Heritage
Forget the stereotypes. It takes thousands of people from every background to care for England's heritage and open it up for everybody to enjoy. We're looking for every type of person with every kind of skill and experience, and we're committed to making sure that English Heritage is an equitable, diverse and inclusive place to work. You can connect with others through our EDI networks as a member or ally. These include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Equity, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Age, Disability and Gender Health and Wellbeing.
We take wellbeing seriously. We are committed to ensuring everyone feels safe at work and can carry out their role. To support this, we have a network of Mental Health First aiders, regular information and awareness events, unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Programme and work with our people to implement reasonable adjustments.