Senior Manager, Partnerships and Public Engagement (Job Share)
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.
Reporting to the Head of Engagement, the Senior Manager, Partnerships and Public Engagement primarily focuses on growing and deepening engagement with local and national audiences and stakeholders, building sustainable partnerships to create inclusive approaches to public engagement with our collections, themes and sites.
Key responsibilities include leading the Partnerships and Public Engagement team in the development and delivery of engagement programmes, partnership opportunities and projects for positive change, to increase understanding and connections to our shared heritage; seeking and maintaining equitable collaborations with communities and organisations to inform the Museum’s approach to inclusive museum processes; and identifying emerging issues in society and leading the team to respond in creating dynamic engagement opportunities that brings dialogue and shares perspectives.
The successful candidate will need to be a highly experienced practitioner in the cultural sector who can demonstrate a good understanding and working practice of audience engagement and development, programming, cultural sector outcomes and government policy. Substantial experience of generating and managing partnerships with multiple stakeholder engagement with an empathy for varying working practices and cultures, and leadership skills to motivate and inspire a diverse team are essential. The postholder will have experience of facilitating access and support for communities to culturally sensitive and contested histories, and the ability to build rapport and collaboration across a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
This is a part-time, 2-year fixed-term job share role in Band 4 - Senior Management and Senior Specialists. Core hours of work will be 18 per week, working across 3 days between the hours of 9am-5pm.
We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, pension, 13.5 days annual leave (pro rata, rising to 15 days after 1 year), training and development and an environment with flexible working options.
Salary: £24,807 per annum (£49,613 pro rata)
We encourage you to read the attached job description and person specification before applying for this role.
Interviews are pencilled in for Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th June.
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 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.
National Museum Directors' Council, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG.
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