Homelessness Heritage Project Manager

The Wallich; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wallich invites a skilled heritage professional to lead Wales’ 50-Year Heritage Project, shaping a national collection and bilingual exhibition that foregrounds voices with lived experience. You will collaborate with communities, universities and heritage partners, building partnerships and ensuring inclusive storytelling. The role requires Enhanced DBS disclosure and a driving licence.

Flexible location with home working is available. Hours: 37.5 per week.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading heritage or culturally significant projects.
• Experience collaborating with universities, heritage organisations and communities.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusive storytelling and engaging voices with lived experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 50-Year Heritage Project from concept to delivery.
• Coordinate research, engagement and partnerships across Wales.
• Develop and oversee exhibition planning, collections and learning activities.

Skills

Heritage management

Community engagement

Stakeholder management

Bid development

Welsh/English bilingual

Education

Heritage studies or related degree

Job description

50 Years of the Wallich – Making Homelessness History

A message from Sian Aldridge, Chief Executive

As The Wallich marks its 50th anniversary, we have an important opportunity to reflect on our history while looking firmly to the future. For five decades, we have stood alongside people experiencing homelessness across Wales, challenging injustice, amplifying voices and working to create lasting change.

This role is central to capturing that legacy. By bringing together the experiences, memories and materials that have shaped our organisation and the wider story of homelessness in Wales, this project will help ensure that voices too often overlooked are heard, valued and preserved for generations to come.

We are looking for an experienced heritage professional and skilled project leader who can turn an ambitious vision into an inclusive, compelling and deliverable programme. You will be collaborative and curious, able to build trusted relationships across communities and sectors, and committed to ensuring that people with lived experience are recognised as authors and custodians of their own histories.

If you share our belief that heritage can challenge perceptions, strengthen understanding and inspire change, we would be delighted to hear from you. This is a rare opportunity to help shape a nationally significant collection and exhibition, and to create a lasting legacy as The Wallich enters its next 50 years.

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 with flexibility

Contract: Fixed term until December 2027 with possibility of extension until 2029

Location: Flexible, including home working

The Wallich is a leading homelessness and rough sleeping charity in Wales. For more information about our innovative work to support people across the country, visit The Wallich website. Find out about Wales' leading homelessness charity, The Wallich www.thewallich.com/about-us

Help create Wales’s first national collection dedicated to the heritage of homelessness.

For 50 years, The Wallich has stood alongside people experiencing homelessness. This landmark project will bring together voices, memories and materials that might otherwise be lost—and ensure that people with lived experience are recognised as authors and custodians of this important part of Wales’s history.

Working with communities across Wales, alongside pioneering campaigners, academics and heritage specialists, we will uncover and preserve oral histories, photographs, documents and artefacts. Together, these will tell an honest and powerful story of how homelessness has changed over the past five decades—and what still needs to change to make homelessness history.

At the heart of the project will be a bilingual multimedia exhibition shaped through peer research, collective storytelling and creative expression. It will challenge perceptions, widen access to heritage and inspire new conversations about homelessness. The collection will create a lasting national legacy, ensuring these experiences inform public understanding, professional practice and change for generations to come.

Impact You will Make

This is an opportunity to shape a nationally significant heritage project from the ground up.

Supported by a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, you will lead the development of The Wallich’s 50-Year Heritage Project and help turn an ambitious vision into a compelling, deliverable programme. Your work will be central to securing delivery phase funding and creating a lasting legacy for Wales.

You will bring together people with lived experience, universities, heritage organisations, community groups and colleagues across The Wallich. You will coordinate research and engagement, develop strong partnerships and ensure that every stage of the project is inclusive, ambitious and delivered to a high standard.

This is more than a project management role. You will help uncover stories that have rarely been heard, create opportunities for people to tell their own histories and influence how homelessness is understood in Wales. The foundations you build will shape a national collection, a public exhibition and learning that can inform The Wallich’s work—and wider conversations about homelessness—for the next 50 years.

If you are an experienced heritage professional who combines skilled project leadership with curiosity, collaboration and a commitment to inclusive storytelling, this is your opportunity to create something genuinely groundbreaking.

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Please note: Driving Licence and use of own vehicleis essential

Closing date for this vacancy is 27th November 2026 at 09:00am.

Interview Date: Week commencing 7th December 2026

The Wallich reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration.

At The Wallich, we’re fully committed to supporting and improving Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to ensure we’re the best community we can be. There is always still room to evolve and improve and we are striving to create an environment where all staff can bring their authentic selves to the workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and if you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require, please contact [e-mail] or call 02920 668 464