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Head of Visual Resources, Imperial War Museum

  •  UK-wide
  •  Â£50k+
  •  Full time
  •  Closes February 10, 2025
  •  Alexandra
  •  careers@iwm.org.uk
  • #Museums

Description

Job Summary

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.

Job Description

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.

For a full job description and to apply please visit the IWM Careers page. Applications close on 10th February 2025 at 9am.

Job Requirements

1. Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline.

2. Proven experience of managing cost, time and quality for a customer facing team and one of the following: contracts for expertise and service delivery, fee paid staff, delivery by an external partner, conflicting customer priorities. Operational budgets for this post are commonly 250K.

3. Experience of managing a specialist team.

4. Development and promulgation of best practice in an area of collections management that links access and preservation such as digitisation in the production of strategic, prioritised programmes of work for multiple media, over multiple years.

5. Project or Programme Management qualification with evidence of its application.

Job Responsibilities

Please visit the IWM Careers page for a full job description.

How to Apply

Please visit the IWM Careers page: https://www.iwm.org.uk/jobs

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