Head of Learning

About Us

We 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 role

The Head of Learning will develop and manage the Museum’s Learning programme of ambitious and inclusive learning experiences that achieve measurable impact on our audiences. S/he will build on our collections, research, partnerships, and exhibition seasons to achieve our mission to create advocates for the planet. The role will lead high performing staff and volunteer teams to ensure a high-quality offer for schools, families, communities and young people.

The Head of Learning will champion the role of Learning both internally and externally, providing strategic direction for the development and delivery of a creative programme of events, activities, resources, and participation initiatives. S/he will also lead long-term strategic planning of resource, ensuring that ambitious KPI’s are met effectively and efficiently.

About you

You want to support activity that will build better futures with nature and science and will have senior level experience in as well as strategy development and implementation in a museum, science centre, or equivalent setting. You have demonstrable experience of understanding audiences and developing innovative, ambitious content and programming grounded in the latest science research. You have excellent project management skills and substantial experience of leading a large team in a customer/visitor facing operation. You are highly collaborative and will bring excellent communication skills. Your excellent strategic awareness and analytical skills means you can see the big picture and adopt a structured approach to problem solving. You will have track record of successfully spotting and securing opportunities for generating new or expanding funding and/or revenue streams. You bring knowledge of the formal and informal learning sectors and experience of supporting equitable youth pathways into nature and science.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work
We 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 here

What we offer

· 27.5 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 sitesand 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 Chi

How to apply

If that sounds like you, please apply online on the Natural History Museum’s careers portal,

at https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/

Closing date: 9am, Monday, 20 March

Interviews expected w/c 27 March

Salary: £48,393 per annum

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please 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.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £48,393.00 per year

Schedule:

• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London, SW7 5BD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, SW7 5BD

Application deadline: 20/03/2023
Reference ID: AMHL