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About the Role
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that explores the past, present, and future of health. This role is critical in guiding key teams within the Collections, Research and Digital department through a period of change as we embark on a new strategic plan and capital project that will see Wellcome Collection grow in ambition and scale.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the operational collections processes for Wellcome Collection, translating and prioritising the Strategic Plan with team managers to deliver against Wellcome and Wellcome Collections’ strategy and mission delivery.
- Lead senior managers to own ongoing strategic alignment with Wellcome Collection’s Strategic Plan across Registration, Conservation and Collections Care, and Collections Development to deliver against Wellcome Collection’s strategy.
- Provide leadership and advocacy for expert teams responsible for delivering Wellcome Collection’s varied collections work, focusing on facilities, environmental conditions, security, digital collections infrastructure, and fostering innovative collections practice.
- Increase the visibility and accountability for collections practice, including heritage science, collections development, sustainable storage practice, and similar long-term strategic ambitions.
- Approach collections management work from a human-centred perspective, placing audiences, communities, and stakeholders at the core of collections thinking and knowledge creation.
Requirements
- Exceptional collections leader with expertise in working across Collections Services disciplines and managing multi-disciplinary teams within an archive, library, or museum setting.
- Proven experience in managing uncertainty, change, and sensitive issues, achieving positive outcomes with a high degree of probity and integrity.
- Ability to communicate to and influence a range of audiences, including executive and non-executive board members, and stakeholders across the arts, cultural, and research sectors.
- Personal commitment to equitable practice across access, diversity, and inclusion, and understanding of how to embed these commitments into collections services.
- Demonstrable experience of working across Collections Services disciplines within a complex organisation, advocating for collections work across all levels of governance.
- Appropriate management experience in an archive, library, or museum with responsibility for developing and managing significant, multi-format collections.
- Strong understanding of the need for coherent digital services and the vital role digital plays in driving increased accessibility to collections.
- Demonstrable experience of managing a multidisciplinary team comprised of a range of collections specialisms.
- Demonstrable experience of providing leadership and advocacy for expert teams responsible for delivering varied collections work, including environmental conditions and security, digital collections infrastructure, heritage science, collections development, and sustainable storage practice.
Skills
- Collections Services
- Registration
- Conservation
- Collections Care
- Collections Development
- Heritage Science
- Collections Management
- Digital Collections Infrastructure
- Sustainable Storage Practice
- Leadership
- Advocacy
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Diversity and Inclusion
Location
- Euston Road offices
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Head of Collections Services
- Senior managers
- Management experience
Salary/Compensations
- £69,600-£87,000
Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Hybrid way of working
About the Company
- Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library. We believe everyone’s experience of health matters. Through our collections, exhibitions and events, in books and online, we explore the past, present and future of health.
- Wellcome Collection opened in 2007 and currently welcomes around 400k visitors per year, with over 4m online visits. We care for many thousands of items relating to health, medicine and human experience, including rare books, artworks, films and videos, personal archives and objects.
- We’re part of Wellcome, a charitable foundation supporting science to help build a healthier future for everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.
- Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
- We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
- This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.