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Join the world-leading V&A museum in a pivotal role, at a time of significant expansion and focussed sustainability efforts.
Overview
Salary
£58000 - £61500
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is highly renowned, functioning as the world's premier institution of art and design, and fostering a rich collection that traverses over 5 millennia of human creativity. The museum offers unparalleled resources for an extensive range of artistic study.
Role Summary:
- Joining the museum at an exciting growth phase with development plans for new sites in East London and iconic building renovations.
- Working as a Senior Estate Manager, you'll be driving the next phase of developmental projects with a particular focus on meeting ambitious net zero goals.
- Collaborating with the Estate team on a variety of planned maintenance tasks across our entire portfolio.
Role Requirements:
- Contributing to the realisation of the museum's strategic objectives, including enhancing visitor experiences, deepening collection relevancies, expanding international reach, operating with financial efficiency, leveraging digital design and experience and diversifying funding sources.
Benefits:
- Includes a robust pension scheme, flexible working, 29 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), discounted exhibition tickets and V&A shop items, a subsidised staff canteen, a Give as you earn scheme and a wide range of professional development opportunities.
ED&I at the V&A:
At the V&A, commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is central, and efforts in this respect have earned the museum a Disability Confident Employer Level 2 status. The museum ensures an inclusive recruitment process, offers guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria and commits to making reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process and during employment as needed.
The V&A is the world's leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
The Role: It could not be a more exciting time to join the V&A. As well as the opening of two new sites in East London, we have big plans to develop the iconic historic buildings in our estate. We are now looking for a Senior Estate Manager (Estate Programme) to join our team and to support delivery of the next phase of works. The role will have a focus on projects to support our ambitious net zero targets but will also work with the Estate team across the full portfolio of planned maintenance.
Job Requirements: The V&A strives to make the museum matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives: To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections. Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy. Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact. To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency. Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience. Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
Benefits: Generous pension scheme, 29 days plus bank holidays, Flexible working, Tickets to V&A exhibitions, Subsidised staff canteen, 25% discount in V&A shops, Give as you earn scheme, Bicycle loan, Interest-free season ticket, Interest-free rental deposit loan, Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike, Wide range of training and professional development opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff diversity networks.
ED&I at The V&A: At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications: The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities; Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process; Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job; Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
