Senior Exhibitions Project Manager

Salary: £30,000 to £34,000, dependent on experience
Location: London
Level: NA
Deadline: 06/01/2019 23:59
Hours: 37.5
Benefits: Plus attractive benefits
Job Type: Permanent

The Design Museum’s mission is to create the most inspiring, exciting and engaging museum in the world. The museum currently delivers world class exhibitions that provoke thought, debate and critical acclaim.

The Design Museum’s temporary exhibitions programme is the central focus of its activities with an influential and engaging programme of paid-for temporary exhibitions alongside its free permanent display. The exhibitions include monographs and thematic exhibitions on every aspect of contemporary design and architecture.

The Senior Project Manager is a crucial member of the Exhibitions department, reporting to the Head of Exhibitions and offering key support to junior members of the team. The post holder drives best practise in exhibition project management and has an outward facing role, ensuring colleagues across the museum have full visibility of project activity.

Job scope

The Senior Exhibitions Project Manager will manage large and complex exhibitions at the museum, ensuring projects are successfully delivered to museum standards, on time and to budget and working closely with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation and externally. As a senior manager, the post holder will line manage an Exhibitions Project Manager and mentor across the team, providing operational support within the Exhibitions department on best practice in project and loan management as well as access and interpretation, ensuring departmental compliance with all museum policies and procedures.

This role will suit an individual with significant project management experience gained through coordinating and delivering complex museum exhibitions, and with a proven track record of working with design teams and contractors to bring a display to life. Contract negotiation and relationship management experience are essential. The role will require a high level of initiative, excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, the ability to offer advice or guidance as appropriate as well as an understanding of resource allocation, scheduling and financial management.

Benefits

The museum offers many benefits including access to a defined contribution pension scheme, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, free entry for friends and family to the museum, a variety of staff discounts including the museum shop and restaurant and free entry to a wide number of galleries and museums in London.