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Living History Manager, Black Country Living Museum

  •  UK-wide
  •  Â£30k-40k
  •  Full time
  •  Closes April 27, 2025
  •  Yasmine Beddall
  •  yasmine.beddall@bclm.com
  • #Museums

Description

Job Summary

Black Country Living Museum is seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager to lead our team of Historic Characters.

Job Description

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role overseeing the teams who bring the past to life for our visitors. You'll be at the heart of our themed events and day to day visitor experience - creating truly memorable, engaging, educational and entertaining experiences.

Job Requirements

  • Managing and deploying our team of Historic Characters (alongside and through our team managers).
  • Overseeing the delivery of Living History at the Museum, ensuring events and programmes are engaging, inclusive and accessible for all audiences.
  • Developing and implementing quality standards, processes and training that ensure high standards of customer service and engagement of Historic Characters.
  • Developing processes and systems that support efficient and effective management, training and continuous improvement of the Living History Team.
  • Working closely with our Public Programmes and Collections & Interpretation teams to create engaging, educational and entertaining live historical interpretations.
  • Working with our Audience & Communications team to ensure integrated and well-coordinated marketing

Job Responsibilities

  • Considerable experience of managing, inspiring and developing a large team.
  • Experience managing large-scale operations, including effective staff rostering, visitor experience and safety.
  • Experience of engaging visitors with stories, living history or dramatic interpretation in a historic context.
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet multiple demands and deadlines and improve systems for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Excellent project and budget management skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across teams with excellent interpersonal skills.

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