Exhibitions Project Manager, Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience, where you can enjoy exhibitions, museum and library collections, public events, and a vibrant shop and café. We also publish books and online stories.

This is a great time to join Wellcome Collection as we embark on an exciting period of change. Wellcome Collection has recently introduced a new ten-year strategy and this role will play an important part in bringing to life our vision of a world where everyone's experience of health matters.

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to build a healthier future for everyone. Wellcome Trust plans to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team on a permanent basis.

Wellcome Collection produces a variety of multi-disciplinary exhibitions designed to challenge the way we think and feel about health, life and our place in the world. We have an ongoing commitment to anti-racism and anti-ableism.

You will join the Production & Planning team, which provides practical and logistical oversight for Wellcome Collection's programme of exhibitions and events - both on site and with our partners. The team collaborates closely with colleagues in Curatorial, Collections, Live Programme and Visitor Experience & Engagement to create engaging experiences for our visitors.

As a Project Manager, you will manage the delivery of complex and experimental exhibitions, projects, commissioned artworks and installations intended for a wide range of audiences. You will oversee the production of temporary exhibitions and long-term displays ensuring high quality, inclusive and sustainable design, production, object display and interpretation. You will critically evaluate these projects from concept stage to delivery to ensure they have the tools, expertise and resources required to deliver their outcomes.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Build strong relationships, and work in an open and collaborative way with multiple project consultants, contractors and stakeholders
• Demonstrate confidence in working with artists and curators to develop new commissions
• Demonstrate experience of commissioning design and fabrication, steering projects to be sustainable, accessible and fit for purpose
• Actively participate in cross-departmental planning, bringing in creative ideas, production and operational thinking to the wider programme
• Understand the conservation and care requirements of working with museum objects and artworks
• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.

You will have experience of working as a project manager or producer within a museum or gallery context, overseeing the development and realisation of complex exhibition projects, including newly commissioned artworks. This experience will have given you a good understanding of current best practice in object care & conservation, exhibition design & fabrication and visitor experience & engagement.

You will understand the need for calm and flexibility when negotiating with stakeholders around key parameters including schedule, budget and design principles - as well as the needs of all other project stakeholders. You will be inspired to work as part of a team that is committed to inclusive and sustainable practice.

To apply for this role please submit an updated CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Minimum Criteria:

• Experience of being responsible for the planning, production and installation of large-scale temporary exhibitions, including managing budgets and schedules and contractor management
• Experience of commissioning design and fabrication, steering projects to be sustainable, accessible and fit for purpose
• Confidence in working with artists and curators to develop new commissions
• Commitment to inclusive practice
• Experience of working within a museum or gallery environment, including working with a range of different types of materials and perspectives

Our Hybrid Way of Working: We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.