The British Museum is seeking two Project Managers
Position type: Full-time (41 hours per week, including one hour paid lunch break)
Salary: £41,723 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 18 August 2025
About the role
The British Museum is seeking two Project Managers to support the successful delivery of temporary exhibitions and gallery displays. The role includes leading individual workstreams and managing smaller projects from inception through to closure and evaluation, aligned with the Museum’s strategic goals.
Using established project management methodologies, the postholder will be responsible for managing budgets, timelines, risks, stakeholders, and quality standards. Key aspects of this role include motivating multi-disciplinary teams and coordinating external contractors. This is an exciting time to join the team, with the Museum delivering a world-class exhibitions programme alongside an emerging new display programme.
Key areas of responsibility
- To manage and motivate multi-disciplinary project teams to work collaboratively to deliver small exhibition and display projects to budget and programme constraints ensuring high quality outputs and contributing to the delivery of strategic targets.
- To develop and manage defined workstreams and support delivery of major exhibition and display projects, ensuring deliverables and processes are fully integrated in the wider project. In doing so, support the Senior Project Manager and the rest of the project team to achieve project objectives.
- For smaller projects, to develop and pro-actively manage project budgets, schedules, and objectives, ensuring issues and risks are appropriately monitored, mitigated and escalated. To monitor and manage a project’s critical path and project documentation and ensure the delivery of milestones.
- To plan budgets, financial estimates and resources required from internal stakeholders. To run competitive processes for contractors and external professional service providers and manage their work.
About you
- Degree in a relevant subject.
- Experience in coordinating the delivery of public facing projects, or significant workstreams within them, involving multi-disciplined teams.
- Experience of project processes e.g. budget, risk, programme, stakeholder, issue management.
- Proven ability to build relationships across teams and departments.
- Strong and persuasive written and spoken communication skills.
About the British Museum
Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
You can view a selection of our impressive collection of prints and drawings in the virtual gallery.
Employee Benefits
- Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays.
- Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
- Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
- Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections.
- Interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts on food and gift shop purchases
Additional Information
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For full role details, please refer to the job description.
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To request support for your application due to accessibility needs, contact: bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org
Right to Work & Sponsorship
The British Museum has a legal obligation to ensure employees have the right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is available only for roles that meet Skilled Worker visa eligibility. Positions must be listed on the government’s eligible occupations list and meet a salary threshold of £38,700 or the job’s going rate, whichever is higher. More details: Skilled Worker Visa.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
The British Museum is committed to equality of opportunity and to fostering a respectful, inclusive environment free from discrimination and harassment. It values the diverse perspectives a global workforce brings and encourages applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Candidates from ethnic minority groups are particularly encouraged to apply, especially for senior roles where they are currently underrepresented.
The British Museum adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for all Civil Servant pre-employment checks.
