Planning and Resources Manager

Planning and Resources Manager
Exhibitions and Temporary Display
Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Permanent
£56,195 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 27 April 2025

About the role:
To facilitate the effective planning and delivery of projects and business as usual activity within the Exhibitions and Temporary Display and Design and Interpretation functions, leading a team of technical and production staff. Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of the production of exhibitions, displays, print and other design media to a high quality and within time and budget constraints, working with other colleagues. This includes the management of external contractors, and ensuring compliance with health and safety, fire and other regulations. Provide high-level support with programme management, resource planning, and operational planning.

Key areas of responsibility:
* To lead on operational planning for exhibition, temporary display and design activity, including programme management, resource planning, asset management, and scheduling.
* To oversee the successful delivery of the construction of exhibitions and related technical services, and their dismantling following closure, safely and securely, within budget, to schedule to a high quality. Includes managing discrete multi-disciplinary teams within wider exhibition projects.
* To support the procurement of exhibition construction and technical services. To work closely with project managers in this regard for large exhibition projects, in particular for the preparation and management of tenders, and the selection of contractors.
* To ensure effective technical support for the delivery of exhibitions and design services.
* To ensure mechanisms, processes are in place, reviewed regularly and updated, to maximise the effectiveness of exhibition construction, print product and related technical services. To do so in liaison with key stakeholders, ensuring safe and secure operations, in compliance with CDM, health and safety and all relevant regulatory requirements.

About you:
* Experience of managing construction projects, involving multi-disciplined teams.
* Experience managing projects, including risk management; issue resolution; change management; cost control; budget management.
* Experience planning and managing a programme or portfolio of projects or work packages involving planning of resources and scheduling.
* Excellent organisational and planning skills, including examples of delivering multidisciplinary projects simultaneously and confidently.
* Demonstratable experience prioritising multiple workloads and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
* Ability to research, report on, and develop project briefs to achieve the clients needs and desired design.
* Skilled planner, with an ability to prioritise and manage oversight of several projects at once.
* Strong grasp of desired end result, with the ability to problem solve and adapt to changes as they come.
* Strong team-building skills and the ability to influence and manage internal and external stakeholders.

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 a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.

You can view a selection of our impressive collection of prints and drawings in our virtual gallery.

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:
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