Director – The Freud Museum

Job Title: Director

Salary: £60,000-70,000 pa (pro-rata)

Hours: 3 - 4 days per week

Location: The Freud Museum, London

Closing date: 5:00 pm, 20 Jun 2025

The Freud Museum is looking for a new Director.

If you are clear thinking and creative and a strategic leader with a track record of organisational development and business growth, we want to hear from you.

The Freud Museum is a unique small London Museum, where Sigmund Freud lived and worked after his flight from Vienna in 1938. Its world-class collections are supported by an active programme of education, events and exhibitions.

The Director will lead the development and implementation of the Museum’s strategy and will oversee its operations to deliver the key objectives of its vision and mission.

This will include leading the organisation through a period of transformational change; ensuring continued commercial viability with imaginative activities that attract and inspire visitors; establishing new and maintaining current strategic fundraising relationships; being the public face and lead advocate and ensuring a sustainable and fit-for-purpose physical and knowledge infrastructure that protects the Museum’s collections into the future. The Director will lead the Museum’s staff and volunteers, directing, motivating and supporting them to build a team that can deliver on the Museum’s objectives. The Director will be supported by a skilled, active and engaged Board of Trustees, led by our Chair Sue Prevezer.

The post holder will oversee strong internal financial and operational management and ensures the charitable purposes of the Museum are achieved. He or she will champion diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the Museum’s work.

How to apply

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Application deadline – Friday 20 June, 5pm

To apply, please send an up-to-date CV and Covering Letter (no more than two pages) to [email protected] 

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Dan Feeney (Acting Director) by email to arrange an informal conversation – [email protected]