Project Manager
Department: Redesign Programme
Line Management: No direct reports
Principal Location: South Kensington (with work across other London sites)
Hours: Part-time, 18 hours per week
Salary: £46,000 – £54,000 pro rata
Work Pattern: 2 – 3 days per week (negotiable)
Contract: 1 year
The Role
The V&A is seeking a project manger to join the Redesign programme.
The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere. We share a 5,000-year-old story of creativity through exhibitions, events, educational programmes, digital experiences, conservation, research, and an ever-evolving national collection of over 2.8m objects spanning every creative discipline.
This role will be responsible for shaping, planning and delivering projects within the Redesign Programme, in particular a project that will help the V&A become a safer and healthier visitor destination and place to work.
They will have significant and varied project management experience in developing, delivering and embedding a series of changes, including policies, guidance, services and products. They will work collaboratively with imagination, care and rigor to deliver measurable outcomes.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people’s lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
- To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
- Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
- Expand the V&A’s international reach, reputation and impact.
- To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
- Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
- Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
