Studio Manager

Studio Manager

Exhibitions

Full-time 41 hours per week(including one hour paid lunch break)

Permanent

£33,368 per annum

Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Tuesday 17th October 2023

Are you ready to join a fast-paced creative Marketing Design Team at the world-renowned British Museum?

At the heart of history, culture, and innovation, the British Museum is a world-leading institution dedicated to preserving and sharing our shared human heritage. Our commitment to creativity, storytelling, and inclusivity drives us to connect with audiences like never before. We're looking for an exceptional Studio Manager to join our creative team and project manage the production of designed assets that bring the Museum's exhibitions and activities to our audiences.

About the role:

As the Studio Manager in the Marketing Design Team, you will lead the creative project management of the workflow of the design team. You'll have the chance to make changes to systems to improve productivity and best practices for design delivery, working with design, artwork, marketing, and social media experts to deliver high-quality and impactful design solutions to promote the Museum, across print and digital applications.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Create project schedules to ensure relevant stakeholder sign-off to support the successful delivery of critical marketing collateral for income-generating and advocacy projects.

• Lead resource planning, prioritisation, and scheduling in the Marketing Design Team, ensuring seamless delivery of design assets on time, to budget to various departments across the Museum.

• Participate in the development of project briefs - supporting colleagues to develop design briefs to ensure aims and objectives are clearly understood and agreed.

• Proactively drive projects forward, track progress, chase as needed, consolidate feedback, and report at meetings.

• Oversee the planning and detailed scheduling of installation of on-site signage, including poster schedules, for promotion of exhibitions and other marketing-led projects, and coordinate with relevant departments and externals.

• Develop and constantly improve/streamline systems, including project review and analysis, to propose better and more effective management of design projects.

• Oversee the development, administration, and file management of the artwork repository, setting the standard for effective storage.

• Effective management of Design Studio Assistant providing mentoring and development.

About you:

• Degree level or equivalent.

• Excellent organisational skills.

• Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills.

• Experience as a Studio Manager in a marketing design environment

• Project management expertise.

• Line management experience.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is one of the leading visitor attractions and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.

The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays
• Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
• Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
• Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections
• Interest-free travel, bicycle and rental deposit loans
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases

Additional details:

For more information about this role, please see the job description.

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.

The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a Museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated fairly because of their relevant knowledge, skills and experience.

We are also currently piloting a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage and how flexible working could work for you.

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