V&A
Region: London
Salary / Fee: From £35,561 to £35,561 Per annum
DesignLab Nation connects the V&A with regional museum partners, schools and designers. From programme year 10 onwards, this role will help partners deliver high-quality regional projects and capture learning from the programme for future schools work.
This role manages the programmes at three partner museums and galleries currently in Hull, Middlesbrough, and Stoke-On-Trent. Each partner works with local three secondary schools per year, local designers, and local industry to share the rich making heritage in the region. The partner schools use a design thinking process over the course of four sessions based and both the partner site and the V&A South Kensington.
This role would requires good project experience of management skills, budgeting, and management of multiple stakeholders. The role requires travel and overnight stays within England. All travel, accommodation and expenses are covered.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people’s lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
- To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
- Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
- Expand the V&A’s international reach, reputation and impact.
- To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
- Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
- Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
Become a member of a supportive and resourceful network
of museum and heritage educators.
