Senior Project Manager

Venue Hire at the Natural History Museum, London; South Kensington (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Venue Hire at the Natural History Museum is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee complex projects, including exhibitions and refurbishments. The successful candidate will lead initiatives to enhance sustainability and strategy implementation while ensuring effective project completion in a dynamic environment. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within a world-class organization committed to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Generous pension scheme with employer contribution

Free admission to exhibitions

Staff discount at shops and cafes

Wide variety of training initiatives

Affordable membership to Civil Service Sports Council

Access to in-house gym and clubs

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing complex projects.
• Practical experience with project management governance.
• Experience with energy and sustainability projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage project delivery for exhibitions, refurbishment, and commercial initiatives.
• Ensure successful project execution from proposal through to completion.
• Focus on delivering elements of the Natural History Museum Strategy.

Skills

Project Management

Procurement

Contract Management

Education

APMQ or PRINCE 2 certification

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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.

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

Working within the Project Delivery Team, you will be a senior member of the team, project managing exhibitions, major refurbishment, commercial initiatives and capital projects that deliver elements of the Natural History Museum Strategy, focusing on energy and sustainability, capital, minor capital, and improvement plans, taking responsibility for projects from initial proposal, through to feasibility, business case and all subsequent project stages to completion.

About You

You will have significant experience of working in a project management role dealing with all aspects of delivering multiple complex projects, including procurement and contract management, and hold APMQ, PRINCE 2 or other recognised project management qualification, with practical experience of using and applying a formal project management governance framework in a changing context.

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.

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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 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 Chi
  
  

Hybrid working

We 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Events Services

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