Natural History Museum
Job title:
WPY Content Manager
Company
Natural History Museum
Job description
About UsWe 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 900 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.Diversity and inclusion matter to us.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.About the roleWildlife Photographer of the Year is one of the three major, global advocacy programmes run by the Natural History Museum. The programme has a prestigious international photography competition at its heart driving a diverse range of activity including an annual Awards ceremony, a major exhibition at the Natural History Museum, national and international tours, publishing, retail and licensing activity, digital engagement and strategic communications.Working across multidisciplinary teams and many museum departments, the WPY Content Manager champions and holds the vision for the reflection of the WPY brand across different outputs, ensuring that the content is engaging, inspiring, faithful to WPY and NHM’s mission, and accessible for audiences.About youWe are looking for candidates with a passion for developing and delivering creative content about nature that will be seen by millions of people around the world through the WPY annual exhibition and its international tour, digital platforms, and other outputs. Candidates must have significant experience managing and delivering high quality outputs in a effective and efficient manner, have excellent interpersonal skills and must be able to combine attention to detail with a big picture view. If you are curious with a can-do attitude, love to work on content with global reach, and want to build internal and external networks, this is the perfect opportunity!Thriving at the Museum: the way we workWe 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.Find out more hereWhat we offer27.5 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 ChiHybrid workingWe 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.How to applyIf this sounds like you, please apply via our careers portal.Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels do not view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form. We advise you to double-check your application form data before submitting as the tool may interpret CVs differently.Closing date: 23:59 on 6 January 2025Interviews expected: 13 and 14 January 2025Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.Museum Website:
Expected salary
£44508 per year
Location
London
Job date
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:59:07 GMT
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