Interpretation Manager – The Royal Parks

About Us

Created in March 2017, The Royal Parks is a charity that supports and manages 5,000 acres of historic and precious parkland across London. Millions of Londoners and tourists visit our beautiful sites, which offer unparalleled opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and healthy living in the heart of the capital, as well as an important refuge for nature.

We look after eight of London’s largest open spaces; Hyde Park, The Green, Richmond, Greenwich, St James’s, Bushy and The Regent’s Parks, and Kensington Gardens. We also manage other important open spaces in the capital including Brompton Cemetery, Victoria Tower Gardens, Canning Green and Poet’s Corner.

We are now seeking an Interpretation Manager to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis.

The Benefits

• Salary of £38,000 – £43,000 per annum, depending on experience
• 26 days’ annual leave plus Public Holidays (increasing to 29 days after three years’ service)
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Health Cash Plan and Private Health Insurance
• Travel to all parks

If you are a talented interpretation professional with a background in the heritage, cultural, educational or charity sectors, this is your chance to put your skills to the test with our unique, distinguished organisation.

This rare, engaging role is an exciting opportunity to shape the narratives and visual identities of The Royal Parks, creating meaningful stories that engage people’s emotions and inspire curiosity about 500 years of history.

Helping to make the parks accessible to all, you will ensure people of all backgrounds can enjoy London’s breath-taking refuges of nature.

So, if this sounds like your ideal next step, we want to hear from you today!

The Role

As the Interpretation Manager, you will be responsible for implementing our new Interpretation and Wayfinding Plan, which is focused on making our parks accessible and welcoming for everyone.

You will play a vital role in sharing the stories of our sites’ unique landscapes and rich history from in-park signage to online interactive experiences.

Creating consistent, high-quality interpretation across physical and digital media for all our sites, you will devise interpretive material for various projects, campaigns and events.

You will play a key role in delivering the interpretation scheme for our flagship project ‘Greenwich Park Revealed’, which will restore the park’s historic landscape and provide learning opportunities for future generations of visitors.

Managing a multidisciplinary team of content producers, you will support major corporate initiatives aimed at improving the visitor experience, including our new visitor research programme.

Additionally, you will:

• Develop a style guide for written communications, such as naming conventions and tone
• Ensure information is researched, written and designed to the highest possible standards
• Act as the point of contact for the Communications and Engagement Directorate and operational teams

About You

To be considered as our Interpretation Manager, you will need:

• Experience of developing and implementing interpretation schemes for organisations or attractions in the heritage, cultural, educational and/or charity sectors
• Experience of managing or working in multi-disciplinary teams, with a proven track record of creative leadership to find innovative interpretive solutions
• Experience of working to corporate brand guidelines and evolving design templates for interpretive material
• An understanding of audiences and audience segmentation, with demonstrable experience of adapting content to suit different audiences
• Knowledge of interpretive theory, interpretive media and best practice in the cultural, heritage, education or museums sector
• An understanding of the access and diversity needs of a range of different audiences
• A degree level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant subject

A postgraduate degree or professional qualification in a relevant subject would be beneficial to your application, as would solid experience of producing creative physical and digital interpretation, including for outdoor and/or multi-site attractions.

Experience of producing wayfinding for outdoor and/or multi-site attractions would also be advantageous, as would experience of managing budgets and presenting realistic costings for work.

Other organisations may call this role Engagement Manager, Visitor Experience Manager, Digital Engagement Manager, or Parks Engagement Manager.

Webrecruit and The Royal Parks are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to exhibit the history of our parks as our Interpretation Manager, please apply via the link below. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

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