Senior Manager: Exhibitions and Touring
The Design Museum
Full-time, 35 hours per week
up to £38,000 per annum, dependent on experience
UK, London
The museum is looking for a dynamic and experienced individual to join the Exhibitions team to work on overseeing the delivery of high-profile exhibitions in Kensington and for tour.
The Senior Manager: Exhibitions & Touring is a key member of the Exhibitions and International Engagement departments. Working with the Head of Exhibitions and Head of International Engagement, they oversee the delivery of a number of temporary exhibitions in London and contribute to the successful development and delivery of the museum’s touring portfolio. The Senior Manager: Exhibitions & Touring drives best practice in exhibition project management and has an outward-facing role, ensuring colleagues across the museum have full visibility of project activity.
This role will suit an individual with significant national and international project management experience gained through coordinating and delivering complex museum exhibitions, with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders, design teams and contractors to bring a display to life. Contract negotiation and business relationship management experience are essential.
The Senior Manager: Exhibitions & Touring oversees the 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. The post-holder line manages up to three Exhibitions Project Managers and mentors across the team.
Closing date
28/04/2024
Notes
Closing hour: midnight
Location: Design Museum Kensington is the place of work, with a hybrid arrangement of 60% of an employee’s role to be performed at the museum and 40% remote
Special demands of the role: there may be requirement on occasion to work outside of the United Kingdom
Interviews: w/c 6 May 2024
About the authors & contributors
The Design Museum is located in London and is the world’s leading design museum. It makes the impact of design visible and is the only place in the UK where the design industry, education and the public can come together to change the way people think about themselves and the future.
Since it opened its doors in 1989 the museum has displayed everything from an AK-47 to high heels designed by Christian Louboutin. It is a registered charity that has staged over 100 exhibitions, welcomed over six million visitors and showcased the work of some of the world’s most celebrated designers and architects including Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, Miuccia Prada, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray and Dieter Rams.