Director of Collections Engagement – The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

The National Holocaust Museum is looking for an outstanding Director of Collections Engagement to take the lead in identifying and engaging new audiences, using the formidable content assets in our Collections which will be further enhanced by our site redevelopment.

You will be a member of our Senior Management Team, alongside the Director, Chief Academic Advisor & Innovation Officer, and the Directors of Education, Fundraising and Operations. You will create and implement inspiring and emotive strategies for public engagement, drawing on your proven understanding of storytelling. Non-school audiences will be your exclusive focus. You will lead and develop a team comprising five Curatorial staff and two additional staff members who will help deliver the Activity Plans associated with our HF and NPO awards. You will work closely with our Local Partnerships Manager in particular. There is a clear opportunity to maximise synergies with our 10-staff strong Learning team too.

The Collections at your disposal comprise powerful Holocaust survivor testimonies — including the award-winning The Forever Project and live in-person testimony from some 15 living survivors — plus artefacts, works of art, photographs and documents.

You will use and expand these Collections, as well as drawing on partnerships with museums, archives and academic teams nationally and internationally, to:

1. Define and engage specific, reachable real-world audiences, diversifying our audience base.
2. Increase the frequency of engagement among particular audience segments such as U3A groups, Friends of the Museum (programme relaunch imminent), using a mix of physical and online events that increase their sense of belonging, learning and ambassadorial potential.
3. Curate an innovative programme of digital outreach and on-site audience engagement, expand our audience numbers and diversity and, working closely with our Chief Academic Adviser and the Education team, draw on the legacies of the Holocaust to address the challenge of contemporary anti-Jewish racism.

This is a permanent, full-time role, which requires significant on-site presence; innate and demonstrable understanding of museum/heritage audiences; demonstrable creativity in how to identify & engage them with the right combination of social and offline marketing; and infectious enthusiasm which ensures the appropriate combination among the Curatorial team of Collections expertise with outward-looking audience engagement needs. This is both a requirement of our NPO status and a moral duty to the Holocaust survivors who have entrusted their items to us, to ensure the Holocaust is always remembered and learned from.

Salary: £38,000 – £40,000 per annum

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Applications must comprise a letter outlining your suitability and motivation for this specific role, together with a CV and the names of at least two referees. Please email to [email protected] by Thursday 29 February 2024.