We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.
Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.
We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.
Help shape one of the most ambitious museum transformation programmes. As a Project Manager within the Natural History Museum’s £202m NHM Unlocked Programme, you will lead major collection move projects that will relocate and protect millions of invaluable specimens and archive items as part of the creation of a new science and digitisation centre at Thames Valley Science Park. Working at the heart of a once-in-a-century opportunity, you will coordinate complex logistics, build and lead specialist teams, influence the design of future collection storage facilities, and collaborate with scientists, collection experts, contractors and senior stakeholders. This is a unique chance to combine project leadership with scientific and cultural heritage impact, helping secure the future of one of the world's most important natural history collections.
We are seeking an experienced project management professional with a strong track record of delivering complex projects in a museum, heritage, collections, or similarly complex operational environment. The successful candidate will combine excellent organisational, leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to plan and coordinate multiple interdependent workstreams, manage budgets and contracts, and lead diverse teams through change. A confident communicator, they will be skilled in producing high-quality reports and presentations for a range of audiences, using data and insight to support decision-making. Experience of collections management and large-scale move projects would be highly desirable, alongside a recognised project management qualification
We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.
- 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
- Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
- Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
- Life insurance
- Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
- Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
- We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
- Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
- Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi
We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.
