26 July, 2024
Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 26 August 2024
The Migration Museum is seeking a Migration Network Co-ordinator to steward the Migration Network for 12 months for a maternity leave cover.
With support from the Migration Museum team, placement students and volunteers, the role will involve planning, delivering and evaluating Network events, both online and in-person, and growing and maintaining the Network according to the strategy and plans in place.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a collaborative, self-directed and organised person with excellent communication and networking skills who is passionate about increasing focus on migration and intersecting themes across the UK museums and heritage sector and linking this sector with others, including the migration and education sectors.
This is a 12 month fixed-term part-time contract. The salary is £34k pro-rata (£20,400 for 3 days per week), plus matched 5% pension contribution. This role will require some time working from the Migration Museum in Lewisham, south London, but will be predominantly remote. We welcome applications from people based across the UK.
Key responsibilities
- Events coordination – Planning, delivering and evaluating knowledge-sharing events with measurable impact.
- Proactive and reactive engagement with other opportunities to support outcomes of the Network.
- Support/coordinate with the potential Collections Research Project.
- Draft input for new resources such as toolkits for the Network.
- Maintain evaluation of all activities and liaise with external evaluator.
- Liaise with and consult with the Network founding partners.
- Maintain communications with Network members and keep the Network area of our website updated.
- Report to Network funders in collaboration with the Migration Museum Development team.
Please click here to view the full job description and person specification for this role
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please email a copy of your CV and a covering letter of no more than 500 words to info@migrationmuseum.org with the subject heading ‘Migration Network Co-ordinator’.
Please also complete our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. These monitoring forms will be stored and assessed separately and will not be linked to your application.
The deadline for applications is 11.59pm on Monday 26 August 2024.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to online interview at the start of September.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact info@migrationmuseum.org.
Image: A Migration Network event at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery in 2023 (Credit: Everything’s Fine Photography)
22 July, 2024
Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 19 August 2024
The Migration Museum is seeking a Digital Product Manager to play a pivotal role in transforming our digital presence so it can support our ambitious, exciting plans for our new permanent home and wider public engagement.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with our Director of Communications and Engagement, our Digital Steering Committee and an external developer to manage the design, development, and launch of an innovative digital platform over the next 12-24 months. This platform will include:
- A new, engaging visitor website
- Innovative online learning resources
- Fundraising and movement-building tools
- A digital platform and content management system for our new collection, created in partnership with other museums and heritage organisations.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a visionary digital product manager with a proven track record of successfully managing digital projects from inception to launch to help us deliver a new digital footprint that matches and can facilitate our ambitious plans, with a new visitor and storytelling website at its heart.
While this is envisaged as a full-time role, we are open to considering part-time arrangements. This role will require some time working from the Migration Museum in Lewisham, south London, but we are open to hybrid/remote working.
Please click here to view the full job description and person specification for this role
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please email a copy of your CV and a covering letter of no more than 500 words to Catherine Humphries: catherine@migrationmuseum.org with the subject heading ‘Digital Product Manager’.
Please also complete our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. These monitoring forms will be stored and assessed separately and will not be linked to your application.
The deadline for applications is 11.59pm on Monday 19 August 2024.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact info@migrationmuseum.org.
19 June, 2024
The City of London Corporation has won the national ‘Planning Permission of the Year’ at the prestigious Planning Awards 2024 for its decision to approve a mixed-use scheme at 65 Crutched Friars by Dominus, which will include a new permanent home for the Migration Museum in the City of London.
The new building, a stone’s throw from Fenchurch Street, Aldgate and the Tower of London, will provide a state-of-the-art permanent home for the Migration Museum on the bottom three floors of a new student accommodation development.
The new museum will encompass interactive temporary and permanent exhibition galleries, flexible event and education space, an artist studio, outdoor areas for programming and activation, and a cafe/restaurant and shop that will be a core part of the museum’s offer, showcasing the significant impact of migration on food and business.
Dominus are currently on-site delivering this planning permission – completion is anticipated for 2027.
Planning Award judges praised the scheme for its focus and potential to attract a broader range of diverse communities into the City.
Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Planning and Transportation Committee, Shravan Joshi, said:
“The City is a true melting pot of cultures, bringing together people from around the World and is a living demonstration of how communities have thrived over centuries in this amazing place. It wouldn’t be what it is today, without being welcoming, open-minded and open-hearted.
That is why I am delighted that the planning permission which involves the Migration Museum finding a new permanent home in the heart of the City as well as much needed student accommodation to support London’s Higher Education offer has been recognised by the Planning Awards and I pay tribute to the brilliant planning team who have made this possible.”
Migration Museum CEO, Sophie Henderson, said:
“We cannot think of a more exciting or resonant location for Britain’s missing museum than the City of London, site of some of the oldest and most intriguing migration stories from the Romans to medieval times and the present day. The Migration Museum will be a high profile, stylish and welcoming new cultural institution that puts our long, rich and complex story of the movement of people both to and from Britain over the ages right at centre stage, where it belongs. It has been a privilege and pleasure to work with the City planning team and developers Dominus to bring this important project to fruition.”
Principal Director of Dominus, Jay Ahluwalia, said:
“We’re thrilled that the City of London has received this award, recognising their collaborative approach, working creatively alongside developers to enable impactful developments such as these to come forward. We’re now on site building out this great development and look forward to continued partnership with the Migration Museum at 65 Crutched Friars to deliver their permanent new home and broaden the cultural offer in The City.”
16 May, 2024
The Migration Museum’s exhibition Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS has won Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024.
