We’re Hiring: Museum Operations Manager
Museum Operations Manager
Are you a creative, adaptable operations professional in the museum sector? Are you looking to get your teeth into a new challenge? The Pen Museum in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are seeking a Museum Operations Manager to manage our small, independent museum. Providing day to day operational management and leadership of the museum, you will oversee our facilities and dedicated volunteer team, develop our offer, and work closely with the Trustees to support our strategic development.
Salary: £26,500 per annum (Pro Rata).
Part Time Position: 25 hours per week, to suit the Museum’s needs, across Thursday to Sunday (inclusive), some flexibility around these hours and the working week will occasionally be required.
Location: Birmingham
Closing Date: Sunday 3rd November 2024.
About Us:
We are a volunteer-led Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), an Accredited Museum and a recipient of a Queens Award for Voluntary Service. Small but perfectly formed, we are rated 4.5 on Tripadvisor, 4.6 on Google reviews and one of the top twenty attractions in Birmingham.
The Museum promotes and preserves the important legacy of Birmingham’s pen trade which, at its height, employed an estimated 8,000 workers, of which 70% were women and where seventy-five per cent of any pen picked up in the world would have been made in Birmingham. Based in a former pen factory constructed in 1863 to manufacture gold pen nibs we are in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter and are proudly one of the city’s one thousand trades. Spread over three galleries, the Museum accommodates an extensive and unique collection of pens, nibs, machinery, and artefacts related to the pen trade and offers visitors a hands-on experience from trails, calligraphy and graphology to interactive historic equipment, bringing our history to life.
About You:
We are looking for an experienced museum professional to take on the day-to-day leadership and operational management of the museum. You will be responsible for ensuring we continue to deliver great experiences for our visitors, look after our collection, maximise revenue sales and ensure high quality operational management and to support the Board of Trustees as we work towards a fully sustainable Museum.
You will be a creative, enthusiastic people manager with an adaptable, hands-on, can-do approach and a passion for engaging people in our unique history. You will be experienced in managing and recruiting volunteers and enjoy working with them to help offer our visitors the best possible experience.
How to Apply:
Please send a CV and Covering Letter, telling us why you have what it takes to be our new Operations Manager to Nigel Evans enquiries@penmuseum.org.uk
Note:
If you are invited to interview you will be asked to bring proof of your right to work in the UK. This typically includes a valid passport, birth certificate, or biometric residence permit.
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