Exhibitions Project Manager | UK

Exhibitions Project Manager

One will be for a full time permanent position and the other for a 12 months part time fixed term contract to deliver a single temporary exhibition. In your cover letter please can you specify whether you would like to be considered for the permanent or FTC position.

About the job

To Succeed in this role, you will:

Both Roles

• Forecast, record and monitor spending on exhibition production. Contribute to budgetary planning relating to the exhibitions programme.
• Work together with the project curator to shortlist, commission and contract exhibition designers. Manage and coordinate 3D, 2D and lighting design processes.
• Draw up and implement project schedules (from content development through to installation take down) in consultation with the project curator, registrar, designers and builders.
• Contract and manage contractors involved in the production of exhibitions. Manage tender processes in accordance with Wellcome’s procurement regulations.
• Lead regular project team meetings to liaise with key stakeholders across departments in Wellcome
• Liaise with the registrar to ensure that conservation, display, transport, courier and insurance requirements are met.
• Liaise with the registrar and gallery manager to plan object installation within an agreed budget. Ensure that an appropriately skilled temporary crew install the exhibition.
• Coordinate artists, exhibitors, curators and the AV team to ensure that the exhibition’s AV requirements are met.
• Remain informed of all issues, techniques, technologies, conservation methods etc. pertinent to exhibition-making. Contribute to and implement templates, guidance and policies for museum best practice

Permanent EPM only

• Take responsibility for the upkeep of a designated permanent gallery in Wellcome Collection, in liaison with the Curatorial, Conservation and Visitor Experience team and technical support. To include:
• Overseeing the maintenance (working with the Gallery Manager, the AV and IT and Publishing teams) of furniture, interactives, showcases, mounts and interpretation.
• Overseeing the upkeep of artworks, scientific exhibits, contemporary and historical material and the satellite exhibitions around the Wellcome Collection building.

About you

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have:

• Ability to learn quickly.
• Self-reliance and self-motivation.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to remain clam under pressure.
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to operate as part of a dynamic team.
• Diplomatic with the ability to understand the needs and priorities of other stakeholders.

Background / Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of being responsible for the planning, production and installation of large-scale temporary exhibitions within a museum or gallery environment, including working with a range of different types of materials and perspectives.
• Experience of maintaining permanent exhibition spaces.
• Experience of devising build and installation schedules and budgets.
• Experience of tendering, contracting, managing and coordinating 3D, 2D and lighting designers and exhibition builders and suppliers.
• Experience and understanding of commissioning and coordinating exhibition audio-visual installations and lighting.
• Understanding of registrarial process for major exhibitions, including issues and procedures relating to exhibition insurance.

Desirable

• Experience of working with artists on the production of newly-commissioned work, including live work.
• Experience of preparing major exhibitions for touring, ideally on an international scale.
• An interest in the history of art and the history of science and medicine and in contemporary developments in these fields

Skills

Essential

• Proven understanding of the different priorities of the many stakeholders and processes involved in the production of an exhibition.
• Proven exhibition project management skills, including devising and managing budgets and ensuring value for money from contractors.

Desirable

• Museum Studies Diploma or equivalent qualification/training.
• Project Management qualification.
• CDM qualification i.e. IOSH Managing Safely.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://wellcome.ac.uk/jobs

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