Career Development Fellow in Museums and Heritage
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Durham, UK
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Job description
Introduction
The Secretary of State is seeking a new Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of the Home.
Organisation description
Museum of the Home wishes to appoint a Chair to advance and develop the ongoing transformation of our Museum as the place to explore and debate the meaning of home. This appointment, made by the Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, carries a four-year term.
Since re-opening in 2021, following an £18.8m refurbishment, Museum of the Home is realising its vision with issues-focused programming and a celebration of diverse collections that pose the question 'What does home mean to you?'. Phase 1 of our Real Rooms Project - a complete re-display of our famous room-sets, from the 1860s to the present day - will see rooms re-open to the public in summer 2024. The challenges for the next Chair centre around ensuring that the Museum continues to be a vibrant place, welcoming to all, whilst realising our aim of being carbon neutral by 2040 and growing our commercial income in line with our values.
Museum of the Home and DCMS are committed to ensuring their public appointments are diverse and benefit from a broad range of skills and perspectives, in order to be representative of all the people the Museum serves. We encourage applications from those whose experiences and perspectives are currently under-represented on our Board and in the museum sector.
Board composition
The Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for management of the Museum. The Board delegate this authority to our Director, Sonia Solicari.
The Board of Trustees is currently made up of 14 members, including the Chair. The Secretary of State for Culture appoints the Chair and three trustees; the Board appoints the remaining trustees. The Board meets four to six times a year.
The Director, who is appointed Accounting Officer by DCMS, is responsible to the Board of Trustees for the development of the Museum and its day-to-day management.
The Leadership Team is the key decision-making team that looks after operations and delivers the Museum's strategy and action plans.
Person specification
Essential criteria
All candidates will need to demonstrate in their application the following essential criteria to a high standard:
- Strong enthusiasm for Museum of the Home and its potential, an ability to think strategically and to support the Museum in achieving its core purpose and vision;
- The ability to chair and lead the board effectively, to promote high-quality discussion and ensure all voices are heard;
- Good communication skills with the ability to act as a spokesperson and advocate for the Museum, forging strong relationships with all key stakeholders;
- The ability to encourage donors, sponsors and supporters to work with the Museum;
- An understanding, of and commitment to, the principles of corporate governance in the public and charity sector;
- A commitment to preserving cultural heritage, improving education and understanding of British and World history as it relates to the history of the home, and recognition of the importance of working in line with the Government's guidelines in relation to contested heritage as a DCMS-funded museum.
Desirable criteria
Candidates should also be able to demonstrate how they would support the Museum’s core values:
- Bold: be brave in trying new things, taking action and fighting for change on issues affecting the ways we live.
- Kind: be friendly, generous and considerate in all our actions.
- Eco-active: embed climate action in all decision-making and encourage visitors to make eco-minded choices at home.
- Equitable: act transparently, ethically, inclusively - and allocate resources time and care equitably to meet needs.
- Job type
- 40 day(s) per annum, 4 years
- Industry
- Government, Politics, EU
- Job Sector
- Public Sector
- Job Position
- Chair
- Address
- Central London, London, UK
- Post date
- Closing date
- Reference Number
- DCMSCMOH01
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