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Opportunity ID
521
You will lead a large multidisciplinary customer facing department. At IWM Visual Resources deliver a museum-wide service for multimedia digitisation of our collections for access and preservation, as well as marketing photography and video for on brand events and marketing. These outputs form key aspects of the IWM’s: public, commercial, collections access, collections preservation, and learning programmes.
You will inform the strategic development of this service, maintenance of the Collections Digital and Digital Futures Strategies and delivery of its access and preservation digital outputs. You will be skilled in commissioning specialist advice from internationally recognised experts on digital access and preservation, your team and liaison with senior management to recommend and deliver strategic programmes of work (running over several years) from concept to completion.
The post holder is responsible for all elements of management of this team including staff, equipment and systems.
Note that members of the Creative team are located at IWM London, and the Digitisation team at IWM Duxford; you will be expected to travel in this role. This post will be based at Duxford.
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 drive the delivery and development of all services within your department, and contribute to the development of other areas as required.
You will play a key role and take responsibility for the development of corporate and departmental strategy and initiatives.
You should be able to lead, manage and motivate your staff, partners and, where relevant, volunteers in order to get the best out of them.
To identify and implement learning and development needs for both yourself and your team, including volunteers, if appropriate.
Support and facilitate public access to our collection, expertise and knowledge.
Develop, partake in and produce accessible material and activities aimed at engaging, informing, educating and enthusing our audiences and potential audiences in the collection and our subject matter, and mission.
For a full list of duties please see the attached job description.
February 10th 2025, 9:00 AM
Interviews for this post are planned for the week commencing 17th February 2025.
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.
…and more!
Ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? Apply now and become part of 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.We value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruitment contact, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.
This vacancy is closed to applications.
