Salary: £45,380

Closing date: Monday, 10th July 2024

Contract type: Permanent

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience, where you can enjoy exhibitions, museum and library collections, public events, and a vibrant shop and café. We also publish books and online stories.

This is a great time to join Wellcome Collection as we embark on an exciting period of change. Wellcome Collection has recently introduced a new ten-year strategy and this role will play an important part in bringing to life our vision of a world where everyone's experience of health matters.

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to build a healthier future for everyone. Wellcome Trust plans to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won't be solved by science alone.

We are looking for a Project manager to join our team on a permanent basis.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

Wellcome Collection produces a variety of multi-disciplinary exhibitions designed to challenge the way we think and feel about health, life and our place in the world. We have an ongoing commitment to anti-racism and anti-ableism.

You will join the Production & Planning team, which provides practical and logistical oversight for Wellcome Collection's programme of exhibitions and events - both on site and with our partners. The team collaborate closely with colleagues in Curatorial, Collections, Live Programme and Visitor Experience to create engaging experiences for our visitors.

What will I be doing?

As a Project Manager, you will Manage the delivery of complex and experimental exhibitions, projects, commissioned artworks and installations intended for a wide range of audiences.

You will oversee the production of temporary exhibitions and long term displays ensuring high quality, inclusive and sustainable design, production, object display and interpretation. You will critically evaluate these projects from concept stage to delivery to ensure they have the tools, expertise and resources required to deliver their outcomes.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Build strong relationships, and work in an open and collaborative way with multiple project consultants, contractors and stakeholders
• Demonstrate confidence in working with artists and curators to develop new commissions
• Demonstrate experience of commissioning design and fabrication, steering projects to be sustainable, accessible and fit for purpose
• Actively participate in cross-departmental planning, bringing in creative ideas, production and operational thinking to the wider programme
• Understand the conservation and care requirements of working with museum objects and artworks

Is this job for me?

You will have experience of working as a project manager or producer within a museum or gallery context, overseeing the development and realization of complex exhibition projects, including newly commissioned artworks.

This experience will have given you a good grasp of current best practice in object care & conservation, exhibition design & fabrication and visitor experience & engagement.

You will be able to identify the times when there is a need for calm and flexibility when negotiating with stakeholders around key parameters including schedule, budget and design principles - as well as the needs of all other project stakeholders.

You will be inspired to work as part of a team that is dedicated to inclusive and sustainable practice.

We are looking for somebody who is:

• Adept at leading creative collaboration within project teams, ensuring that all perspectives and priorities are represented
• Skilled at budgeting, contracting and scheduling.
• The ability to contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, working in partnership across departments.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates: Week commencing Monday, 29 July 2024

You can view the full job description on our website.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days working either remotely or in the office.

From 1st September 2024 we will move to 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at .

Exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (subject to a Standard/Enhanced DBS)

This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that, upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check. This will require disclosure of any 'unspent' convictions or conditional cautions and any 'spent' convictions or adult cautions that are not protected (i.e., that are not 'filtered out') as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further guidance on the disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.

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