Imperial War Museum locations: IWM North, HMS Belfast, IWM London, Churchill War Rooms, IWM Duxford

Assistant Director (Narrative and Content)

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IWM London
£67,150
36 hours net per week
Narrative and Curatorial

Purpose of the job

The Assistant Director Narrative and Content provides strategic leadership of the curatorial function at IWM ensuring it remains at the heart of all IWM projects and programmes.

The AD N&C leads an audience-centred approach, maximising available curatorial resource and expertise to enable creative thinking around the IWM’s collection and its development, historical interpretation and storytelling of the objects in the collection.

A key member of the Senior Management Team, the role ensures that Narrative and Content is collaboratively engaged in strategic planning, providing input, thought and creative leadership, to support and deliver the IWM’s Corporate Plan.

The role is responsible for ensuring that all resources are well managed within budget. Working with the AD Resources, the AD N&C will introduce new systems to enable regular reporting against strategic delivery, including additional and ad hoc demands.

The AD N&C ensures that all people within Narrative and Content are inspired, developed and well managed; able to present their best professional selves whilst delivering the department’s plan.

Key duties

You will be expected to work independently as well as across different teams in order to contribute to and deliver the priorities of IWM - using your knowledge, skills, talent and potential to the best of your ability. 

You will focus at all times on delivering excellent customer service, ensure value for money at all times while being professional, courteous and demonstrating the behaviours and attributes expected of all IWM employees. You will also adhere to all corporate standards, and use corporate systems as directed to ensure consistency of service, brand and operational standards.

You will be expected to work across departments effectively, working with individuals, partners and where appropriate volunteers.

To identify and implement learning and development needs for both yourself and your team, including volunteers, if appropriate.

For a full job specification, which your application will be marked against please see the attached person specification.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am, Friday 15th July 2022. First round interviews will be held on Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th August 2022. If you are successful at round one you will be invited to attend a second interview on Thursday 11 August 2022. 

July 15th 2022, 9:00 AM

 

The benefits listed below are discretionary and IWM reserves the right, with due notice, to vary or withdraw them at any time. All such benefits apply during the course of your employment only.

  • Our generous full-time equivalent annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum plus public holidays rising to 27 days after 3 years and 30 after 5 years. 
  • IWM is a member of the Civil Service Pension Scheme. Employer pension contributions to the civil service pension scheme vary but are normally between 20% - 24.5% dependent on salary and length of service.
  • Access to select a range of benefits to suit your personal circumstances and lifestyle via our benefits platform, IWM4me. IWM4me offers IWM staff a wide range of health, protection, and lifestyle benefits, many at corporate rates not available on the high street.
  • Free sanitary products provided at all sites.
  • An interest free season ticket loan scheme after successful completion of the probationary period.
  • 20% discount in IWM’s shops.
  • 25% discount in IWM’s cafes.
  • Free entry to the majority of Air shows at IWM Duxford.
  • Free entry to a large number of other museums & galleries and their exhibitions which we have reciprocal arrangements with.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits linked to length of service.
  • Access to our in-house training programmes and development.
  • IWM staff are entitled to membership of the Benenden Healthcare Society (subject to their terms & conditions.
  • Eligibility to join the Civil Service Sports Club, securing additional discounts and benefits.
  • Cycle 2 Work Scheme.
  • Access to social events run by groups with IWM.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This role is subject to:

A basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions.

IWM is committed to a policy of Equal Opportunities.

We miss out when people feel IWM isn't for them, and are committed to removing and reducing barriers to make IWM open to everyone.

Our Access and Inclusion strategy has been developed to promote openness, equal opportunities to access, inclusivity and encourage diversity in everything that we do, from employment practices, the services we provide to our visitors to the facilities we make available to public.

At IWM we seek to address the need for greater diversity within our workforce as well as the wider museum and heritage sector. In all our practices we embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from suitable candidates of all backgrounds.

This opportunity is closed to applications.