Museum Curator – London Fire Brigade

London Fire Brigade (LFB) is London’s Fire and Rescue Service – one of the largest firefighting and rescue organisations in the world. We are here to make London a safer city.

We employ over 5,500 people, across our operational team (our firefighters), control (our call handlers who answer your 999 calls) and our support services teams (our teams who work behind the scenes to support our front-line services, including HR, IT, Finance, Procurement, Communications etc.).

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Brigade’s Communications Department as a Museum Curator. In this busy role the successful candidate will show that ability to work collaboratively with their job share partner to manage the LFB Museum by caring for the heritage collection and leading the development of the new museum project. The Museum is currently closed for planned relocation to our former headquarters at 8 Albert Embankment. The new LFB Museum will be designed with local communities to provide a unique forum for engagement and education and where all will be able to access prevention, protection and recovery services.

The post-holder will create and deliver an annual programme of events to increase access to the Brigade’s heritage collection whilst the museum is closed. This will include creating a positive environment encouraging collaboration with other heritage organisations and groups local to Lambeth, the potential location of the new museum. The role will also include caring for the collections, managing the improvement of collections information, improving collections management procedures and coordinating the integration a new collections management system.

The role will also include some travel across London promoting and supporting the work of the museum.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about working in a museum environment, creative and dedicated to leading the museum through this period of change. The successful candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of working with a range of community members and stakeholders, both internal and external. The post-holder will also have experience of managing a team of staff and volunteers and experience of successful working in a job share is also desirable.

Salary range: £26,241.60 – £31,345.20 per annum
Working pattern: 3 days a week job share – hybrid working

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Closing date 4pm Wednesday 18 September.