Masterplan Campaign Project Manager

THE BRITISH MUSEUM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free exhibition entry

Civil Service Pension Scheme

25 days' annual leave

Job summary

The British Museum is seeking a Fundraising Campaign Project Manager to lead milestone fundraising activities for the Masterplan. The role combines strategic campaign leadership with tight governance, reporting and donor engagement across senior leaders and trustees.

You will coordinate philanthropy, corporate partnerships, events and operations teams to develop compelling donor propositions and materials while maintaining rigorous timelines and budgets.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of working within fundraising operations, campaign management or development teams with an understanding of fundraising best practice and donor engagement.
• Experience supporting or leading major fundraising campaigns. Experience with capital project fundraising campaigns would be advantageous.
• Excellent project management, planning and organisational skills with the ability to analyse financial information quickly and accurately.
• Strong IT and financial literacy skills
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail.
• Experience delivering collateral for fundraising campaigns and donor packages and proposals.
• Experience of governance, reporting and stakeholder management in a complex environment.
• Able to prioritise effectively with the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership for the Masterplan fundraising Campaign, ensuring activity is aligned with strategic priorities, timelines and budgets.
• Coordinate campaign activity across philanthropy, corporate partnerships, events and operations teams.
• Drive campaign planning, reporting, governance and performance monitoring.
• Develop and maintain compelling campaign propositions, cases for support and donor materials.
• Support senior leadership, steering groups and trustees with campaign reporting and governance processes.
• Manage consultants and suppliers, ensuring delivery against campaign objectives.
• Work collaboratively across the Museum to identify funding opportunities and develop high-value fundraising propositions.
• Help establish effective ways of working across a large and complex stakeholder landscape.

Skills

Fundraising operations

Campaign management

Project management

IT literacy

Analytical skills

Donor collateral

Governance & reporting

Prioritisation

Job description

Fundraising Campaign Project Manager: Masterplan
Full-time

Hybrid (at least 4 days per week on-site in Bloomsbury, London)
Permanent
£49,829 per annum
Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday, 6 September 2026

About the role

The British Museum is embarking on one of the most significant cultural redevelopment projects undertaken anywhere in the world. Our £1 billion Masterplan programme will transform the Museum, from visitor experience to our permanent exhibitions and how we document our collections, while ensuring that our collections remain accessible to millions of visitors and future generations.

To help deliver this vision, we are seeking an experienced Masterplan Campaign Project Manager to play a pivotal role in enabling and coordinating a major fundraising campaign of national and international significance.

This is an exciting opportunity for a fundraising professional with strong project management expertise to work alongside senior leaders, philanthropists, campaign specialists and colleagues across the Museum, helping to build the systems, processes and momentum that will support the next phase of this transformational programme.

You'll join a collaborative and ambitious Development team and have the chance to:

• Work on a campaign of exceptional scale and significance.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, trustees and fundraising professionals.
• Develop innovative fundraising propositions linked to an internationally renowned cultural programme.
• Make a lasting contribution to the future of the British Museum and the millions of people who engage with it every year.

If you're a highly organised fundraising or development professional who enjoys bringing people, projects and ideas together to achieve ambitious goals, we'd love to hear from you.

About you

• Significant experience of working within fundraising operations, campaign management or development teams with an understanding of fundraising best practice and donor engagement.
• Experience supporting or leading major fundraising campaigns. Experience with capital project fundraising campaigns would be advantageous.
• Excellent project management, planning and organisational skills with the ability to analyse financial information quickly and accurately.
• Strong IT and financial literacy skills
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail.
• Experience delivering collateral for fundraising campaigns and donor packages and proposals.
• Experience of governance, reporting and stakeholder management in a complex environment.
• Able to prioritise effectively with the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.

Key areas of responsibility

• Provide project management leadership for the Masterplan fundraising Campaign, ensuring activity is aligned with strategic priorities, timelines and budgets.
• Coordinate campaign activity across philanthropy, corporate partnerships, events and operations teams.
• Drive campaign planning, reporting, governance and performance monitoring.
• Develop and maintain compelling campaign propositions, cases for support and donor materials.
• Support senior leadership, steering groups and trustees with campaign reporting and governance processes.
• Manage consultants and suppliers, ensuring delivery against campaign objectives.
• Work collaboratively across the Museum to identify funding opportunities and develop high-value fundraising propositions.
• Help establish effective ways of working across a large and complex stakeholder landscape.

The Masterplan

The British Museum is undertaking its biggest transformation since its founding nearly 300 years ago. This physical and intellectual transformation includes large scale building and gallery transformation, new ways of connecting with audiences and different ways of working. As we look towards this exciting future, we remain guided by the words of our founder Hans Sloane – who dreamed of a museum connecting all arts and sciences, which would be accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Benefits

At the British Museum, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do and have designed a benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary. Our full list of benefits can be found here, but we've outlined some highlights below:

• Free exhibition entry for you and guests, exclusive private views, ICOM and reciprocal museum access.
• Civil Service Pension Scheme defined benefit with 28.97% employer contribution.
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days (and +5 days after 10 years).
• Learning and development through courses, mentoring and Athena as well as support for professional qualifications.
• Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7 for counselling, wellbeing support and more.
• Enhanced parental leave including maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
• Support for carers through Employers for Carers.

Our Values

Our values drive everything we do, from how we handle our objects to how we work in our team to fostering a culture where everyone feels heard and empowered:

• Care Deeply
• Embrace the Unknown
• Spark Curiosity
• Value Many Voices

These are a core part of how we recruit. Throughout the application, interview and selection process, we look for examples of how candidates demonstrate these behaviours in their own work and experiences. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our values and reflect them in your application.

Additional details

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details

Right to Work

The British Museum holds a Skilled Worker sponsor licence. Applicants are responsible for determining whether the advertised salary and role meet current UKVI sponsorship requirements and for ensuring they have, or can obtain, the appropriate right to work in the UK. The Museum cannot provide immigration advice, and eligibility should be checked before submitting an application.

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.