Heritage Manager

OUR BIG PICTURE; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Our Big Picture is seeking a Heritage Manager to lead the journey of NE Lincolnshire's heritage initiatives from our Grimsby hub.

You will oversee the Heritage Journey, Medieval Grimsby research, and collections policy, working with volunteers, academics, and partners to develop funding applications and deliver flagship projects with the CEO and Art Programme Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Heritage Journey — a peer-to-peer support framework connecting individuals and organisations across NE Lincolnshire with mentoring, project development guidance and sector expertise.
• Oversee the Medieval Grimsby research programme and help develop OBP’s collections policy.
• Provide support across flagship project strands alongside the CEO and Art Programme Manager.
• Support grassroots heritage groups to develop their first funding applications and present findings to academic partners.

Job description

Our Big Picture believes that everyone has the right to art in their lives. Since 2016, we have grown from a market stall on Grimsby’s Top Town Market into North East Lincolnshire’s first dedicated community Arts and Heritage Hub, working inclusively with our communities so that everyone can shape, take part in, experience and enjoy art and heritage at its best.

The Heritage Manager is a new post at the heart of OBP’s ambition to become the established Heritage Hub for NE Lincolnshire. This is a strategic and delivery role, one that combines hands‑on programme leadership with relationship‑building across the regional and national heritage sector.

Working from OBP’s town centre Hub as the physical point of contact for NEL’s heritage sector, the Heritage Manager will lead the Heritage Journey — a peer‑to‑peer support framework that connects individuals and organisations across NEL with mentoring, project development guidance and sector expertise. They will also lead the Medieval Grimsby research programme, develop OBP’s collections policy, and provide support across all three flagship project strands alongside the CEO and Art Programme Manager.

This is a role for someone who is as comfortable working with community volunteers around a table of archaeological finds as they are presenting to academic partners or supporting a grassroots heritage group to develop their first funding application. It requires the ability to work at pace, breadth, warmth, rigour and genuine enthusiasm for making heritage accessible to everyone.

Contract type: Fixed term, 20 months (salaried).

Hours: Part‑time, 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with occasional rotating cover for Saturdays or evenings.

Based at: 21 Bethlehem Street, Grimsby DN31 1JN, plus local community venues.

Key dates:

Interviews: 7th to 9th October 2026

Appointment: October/Novembner 2026